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Harper's Bazaar is an American monthlywomen's fashion magazine. It was first published in New York City on November 2, 1867, as the weekly Harper's Bazar.[2]Harper's Bazaar is published by Hearst and considers itself to be the style resource for "women who are the first to buy the best, from casual to couture".[3] Since its debut in 1867, as the U.S.'s first fashion magazine,[citation needed] its pages have been home to talent such as the founding editor, author and translator Mary Louise Booth, as well as numerous fashion editors, photographers, illustrators and writers. Harper's Bazaar targets an audience of professional women ranging from their twenties to sixties, who are interested in culture, travel, and luxury experiences.[4]
The name change to Harper's Bazaar was filed on December 30, 1930.[2] However, the first magazine that showed the spelling "bazaar" on the cover came earlier with the November 1929 issue.
Front cover illustrating hairstyles, Vol. I, No. 49 (October 3, 1868) – as Harper's Bazar: A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
Harper's Bazar began publication as a tabloid-size weekly newspaper catering to women in the middle and upper classes. It showcased fashion from Germany and Paris in a newspaper-design format. In fact, it was directly inspired by and modeled on a German fashion magazine Der Bazar, and received content from the German magazine in its early years, often publishing it simultaneously.[8][9] It was not until 1901 Harper's moved to a monthly issued magazine which it maintains today. Now Harper's Bazaar is owned and operated by Hearst in the United States and the National Magazine Company in the United Kingdom. Hearst purchased the magazine in 1913.[7]
As the turn of the century began in America, Harper's Bazar began featuring both illustrations and photographs for its covers and inside features of high society and increasingly of fashion.[citation needed]
During the late Victorian period, as the women's suffrage movement was gaining momentum (American women did not all win the right to vote until 1920 with the passing of the 19th Amendment), the introduction of more tailored dresses and jackets coincided with women's new sense of feminism. Bazaar also began profiling prominent socialites, such as the Astors and the Griscoms. In its early years, Harper's Bazaar focused primarily on society news, women's issues, and literature. The magazine featured articles, short stories, and serialized novels by notable authors such as Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf.
In 1933, editor-in-chief Carmel Snow (a former editor at Vogue) brought photojournalist Martin Munkacsi to a windswept beach to shoot a swimwear spread. As the model ran toward the camera, Munkacsi took the picture that made fashion-magazine history. Until that moment, nearly all fashion was carefully staged on mannequin-like models in a studio. Snow's buoyant spirit (she rarely slept or ate, although she had a lifelong love affair with the three-martini lunch) and wicked sense of adventure brought life to the pages of Bazaar. Snow's genius came from cultivating the "best" people. Her first big find was art director Alexey Brodovitch, who innovated Bazaar's iconic Didot logo. Brodovitch is perhaps best known for his work with Richard Avedon, who, as a young photographer, was so determined to work at Bazaar that he endured the humiliation of 14 canceled interviews before finally being hired. Snow also unleashed the force of nature known as Diana Vreeland, whom she brought on as fashion editor in 1936. The collaboration of these four visionaries resulted in some of the germane fashion shoots of the 20th century and ended only with Snow's retirement, at age 70, in 1957.[10] The publication in the September 15, 1937 issue of Man Ray's photograph of his partner, the Guadeloupean model and dancer Adrienne Fidelin, was the first time a Black model was featured in a major American fashion magazine.[11] Carmel Snow was living in Ireland before her mother, Annie White paid for her and her sisters immigration to America when she was 8-years-old.[12]
In 1934, newly installed Bazaar editor Carmel Snow attended an Art Directors Club of New York exhibition curated by 36-year-old graphic designer Alexey Brodovitch and immediately offered Brodovitch a job as Bazaar's art director. Throughout his career at the magazine, Brodovitch, a Russian émigré (by way of Paris), revolutionized magazine design. With his directive "Astonish me", he inspired some of the greatest visual artists of the 20th century (including protégés Irving Penn, Hiro, Gleb Derujinsky, and, of course, Richard Avedon). One of his assistants was future Rolling Stone art director Tony Lane. Brodovitch's signature use of white space, his innovation of Bazaar's iconic Didot logo, and the cinematic quality that his obsessive cropping brought to layouts (not even the work of Man Ray and Henri Cartier-Bresson was safe from his busy scissors) compelled Truman Capote to write, "What Dom Pérignon was to champagne ... so [Brodovitch] has been to ... photographic design and editorial layout." Brodovitch's personal life was less triumphant. Plagued by alcoholism, he left Bazaar in 1958 and eventually moved to the south of France, where he died in 1971.
Toni Frissell, Woman in tennis outfit, published in Harper's Bazaar, February 1947
When Carmel Snow saw Diana Vreeland dancing on the roof of New York's St. Regis Hotel in a white lace Chanel dress and a bolero with roses in her hair one evening in 1936, she knew she'd found Bazaar's newest staffer. Diana, who is said to have invented the word "pizzazz", first came to the attention of readers with her "Why Don't You ...?" column. (A typical suggestion: "Why don't you ... wear, like the Duchess of Kent, three enormous diamond stars arranged in your hair in front?") Before long, she became fashion editor, collaborating with photographers Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Alexey Brodovitch, and Richard Avedon and, later, art director Henry Wolf. Her eccentricity, perception and wit, as well as her sharp wit and sweeping pronouncements ("I adore that pink! It's the navy blue of India," "Elegance is refusal!"), were memorialized in the movie Funny Face, making her, for many, the prototypical fashion-magazine editor.
Richard Avedon began creating fashion portfolios for Harper's Bazaar at age 22. His distinctive photographs showed both chic insouciance and boundless vitality. Avedon's women leapt off curbs, roller-skated on the Place de la Concorde, and were seen in nightclubs, enjoying the freedom and fashions of the postwar era. He wanted his art in photos to be in the moment for his models, to be much more natural and raw. The goal always for him was to eliminate the background and pull focus to the main subject of the photograph, such as a model in the desert suffering from being stranded in the middle of nowhere. His minimalist style of photography created this new theme in fashion where less can be more. Amazingly, he carved a pathway for models to show their true selves in modeling. [citation needed]
He was immortalized in the film Funny Face by the character Dick Avery (played by Fred Astaire), who asked, "What's wrong with bringing out a girl who has character, spirit, and intelligence?" Alongside Fred Astaire was the leading lady Audrey Hepburn who portrays a "plain" girl who ultimately blossoms into a beautiful women. Avedon contributed many stills of Audrey Hepburn to the film, although he did not believe it truly captured her beauty, because getting to know her set her beauty on whole another level that just could not be caught in a photo.[citation needed]
Being photographed by Avedon for the February 1959 issue of Harper's Bazaar, China Machado was one of the first non-caucasian models to appear on the pages of a fashion magazine.[13]
Gleb Derujinsky's 18-year career at Harper's Bazaar spanned from 1950 to 1968 and during that time produced some of the classic images of the era. Scouted by editor-in-chief Carmel Snow and art director Alexey Brodovitch, Derujinsky joined the elite group of photographers, including Richard Avedon, who shot for the magazine. Working closely with the then fashion editor Diana Vreeland, Derujinsky proved a pioneer in his field, creating stunning juxtapositions between European Haute Couture dresses and landscapes ranging from desert sands to car junkyards, fairgrounds and airports, all this at a time when air travel was yet to become as common as it is now. "Avedon shot dresses and clothes, Gleb shot women living in them".[14]
To mark the inauguration of Pan Am's Boeing 707 in 1957, Derujinsky traveled across the world with Nena von Schlebrügge, and Ruth Neumann, whom he would later marry. The latter would be his muse from the seaside harbors of China, to the Nara Deer Park in Japan, and throughout Thailand, Spain and Greece. The 1957 Paris Collections were the basis for a 25-page spread in Harper's Bazaar featuring his photographs. "Gleb Derujinsky's photographs evoke the best of Harper's Bazaar: exquisitely beautiful, original, and instantly iconic images of a very fashionable life".[15]
Nonnie Moore was hired as fashion editor in 1980, having served in the same post at Mademoiselle.[16]The New York Times noticed the changes she made at Harper's Bazaar, highlighting how the magazine had been "looking a little dowdy", but that Moore had "noticeably sharpened the magazine's fashion point of view" by showing "brighter, younger and more stylish", complimenting her use of "young and exciting fashion photographers", such as Oliviero Toscani.[17]
Harper's Bazaar worldwide
Harper's Bazaar has 29 editions worldwide.
In publication
Harper's Bazaar Arabia (in Arabic and English, since 2007 | Edited by Olivia Philips)[18]
Harper's Bazaar Australia/New Zealand (in English, from 1984 to 1990 and then from 1998 to 2020, since 2021 | Edited by Jillian Davison)[19]
Harper's Bazaar Brazil (in Portuguese, since 2011 | Edited by Patricia Carta)[20]
Harper's Bazaar China (in Simplified Chinese, since 2002 | Edited by Simona Sha)
Harper's Bazaar Czech Republic (in Czech, since 1997 | Edited by Nora Grundová)
Harper's Bazaar France (in French, from 1983 to 1991, since 2023 | Edited by Olivier Lalanne)[21][22]
Harper's Bazaar Germany (in Germany, from 1963 to 1970 and then from 1985 to 1992, since 2013 | Edited by Kerstin Schneider)[23]
Harper's Bazaar Greece (in Greek, since 1996 | Edited by Eleni Pateraki)
Harper's Bazaar Hong Kong (in Traditional Chinese, since 1988 | Edited by Crystal Wong)
Harper's Bazaar India (in English, since 2009 | Edited by Rasna Bhasin)[24]
Harper's Bazaar Indonesia (in Indonesian, since 2000 | Edited by Ria Lirungan)
Harper's Bazaar Italy (in Italian, from 1968 to 1997, since 2022 | Edited by Massimo Russo)[25][26]
Harper's Bazaar Japan (in Japanese, since 2000 | Edited by Yuko Oguri)
Harper's Bazaar Kazakhstan (in Russian, since 2004 | Edited by Larissa Azanova)[27]
Harper's Bazaar Korea (in Korean, since 1996 | Edited by Sekyung Cho)[28]
Harper's Bazaar Latin America (in Spanish, since 1980 | Edited by María José Guzmán)
Harper's Bazaar Malaysia (in English, since 2003 | Edited by Aziz Draim)
Harper's Bazaar Netherlands (in Dutch, from 1986 to 1990, since 2014 | Edited by Miluska Van 't Lam)[29]
Harper's Bazaar Qatar (in English, since 2022 | Edited by Olivia Philips)
Harper's Bazaar Saudi (in Arabic and English, since 2021 | Edited by Olivia Philips)
Harper's Bazaar Serbia (in Serbian, since 2014 | Edited by Petar Janošević)
Harper's Bazaar Singapore (in English, since 2001 | Edited by Kenneth Goh)
Harper's Bazaar Spain (in Spanish, since 2010 | Edited by Inmaculada Jiménez)[30]
Harper's Bazaar Taiwan (in Traditional Chinese, since 1989 | Edited by Kora Hsieh)
Harper's Bazaar Thailand (in Thai, since 2005 | Edited by Nichakul Kitayanubhongse)
Harper's Bazaar Turkey (in Turkish, since 1993 | Edited by Gulen Yelmen)
Harper's Bazaar Ukraine (in Ukrainian, since 2008 | Edited by Kateryna Popova)[31]
Harper's Bazaar United Kingdom (in English, since 1929 | Edited by Lydia Slater)
Harper's Bazaar United States (in English, since 1867 | Edited by Samira Nasr)
Harper's Bazaar Vietnam (in Vietnamese, since 2011 | Edited by Tran-Nguyen Thien-Huong)
Defunct
Harper's Bazaar Argentina (in Spanish, from 2011 to 2019)
Harper's Bazaar Bulgaria (in Bulgarian, from 2008)[32]
Harper's Bazaar Chile (in Spanish, from 2015 to 2019)
Harper's Bazaar Poland (in Polish, from 2013 to 2019)[33]
Harper's Bazaar Romania (in Romanian, from 2007 to 2021)[34]
Harper's Bazaar Russia (in Russian, from 1996 to 2022)[35]
Harper's Bazaar Arabia
Harper's Bazaar Arabia was launched in March of 2007 and is published by ITP Media Group and based in Dubai.[36] The brand also publishes Harper's Bazaar Art, Interiors and Junior titles.
In July 2018 Harper's Bazaar Arabia became the first magazine to have a Saudi Arabian woman on the cover when they featured Taleedah Tamer as their July/August cover girl.[37]
Editors
Rachel Sharp (2007–2009)
Louise Nichol (2009–2018)
Salma Awwad (2018–2020)
Olivia Phillips (2020–present)
Harper's Bazaar Australia/New Zealand
Harper's Bazaar Australia is based in Sydney. The magazine originally ran from 1984 to 1990. The magazine was relaunched in March 1998 with Nicole Kidman on the cover. The magazines current editor is Jillian Davison, who started the position in 2021.
In July 2020 the magazines publisher Bauer Media Australia shuttered the publication citing declining advertising revenue and travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.[38][39] The magazine resumed publication in September 2021 as Harper's Bazaar Australia/New Zealand and is now published by Switzer Media and Publishing.[40]
Editors
Karin Upton Baker (1998–2001)
Alison Veness (2001–2008)
Jamie Huckbody (2008–2009)
Edwina McCann (2009–2012)
Kellie Hush (2012–2018)
Eugenie Kelly (2018–2021)
Jillian Davison (2021–present)
Harper's Bazaar China
In November 2001 Best China Fashion was launched. In September of 2002 it took on the Harper's Bazaar name before fully rebranding in 2005.
Editors
Su Mang (2001–2018)
Simona Sha (2018–present)
Harper's Bazaar En Español
Harper's Bazaar En Español is the Mexican and Latin American edition of Harper's Bazaar.
Harper's Bazaar Singapore published its first Singapore edition of the magazine on November 4, 2001. It is published by SPH Magazines.
In 2015, Harper's Bazaar Singapore launched its website.[45]
Harper's Bazaar Singapore has won several awards, including a MPAS Awards 2018 for Fashion Media of the Year (Gold).[46][47] The magazine was also the media partner for the first four seasons of Asia's Next Top Model.
Kenneth Goh has been the editor-in-chief of the magazine since 2014.[48]
Harper's Bazaar UK
The Harper's Bazaar UK edition was first published in London in 1929.[49] In November 1970, New York City-based Hearst Communications amalgamated it with Queen magazine (which dated from 1862) to form Harpers & Queen. The magazine was widely perceived to be focused on British "high society" and the lives of socialites and the British aristocracy. In March 2006, it was renamed Harper's Bazaar, bringing it in line with its international sister titles, and repositioned as a more celebrity-oriented fashion magazine. Harper's Bazaar UK has a long history of literary contributions from leading writers, including Evelyn Waugh, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and Virginia Woolf. It maintains that connection today, with recent articles written by Ali Smith, Jeanette Winterson, and Margaret Atwood, and runs its own Literary Salon.
The magazine was founded based in Ho Chi Minh City on June 27, 2011, the Vietnamese version of Harper's Bazaar is called Phong cách Harper's Bazaar as a result of merging Harper's Bazaar and Phong cách.[51]
Harper's Bazaar Vietnam was also a co-sponsor of the first season of Project Runway Vietnam (local title: Nhà thiết kế thời trang Việt Nam).
In 2014, Harper's Bazaar Vietnam launched its website.[52]
Diana Vreeland was an American fashion columnist and editor. She worked for the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar and as editor-in-chief at Vogue, later becoming a special consultant to the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was named on the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1964. Vreeland coined the term youthquake in 1965.
Seventeen is an American bimonthly teen magazine headquartered in New York City. The publication targets a demographic of 13-to-19-year-old females and is owned by Hearst Magazines. Established in 1944, the magazine originally aimed to inspire teen girls to become model workers and citizens. However, it soon shifted its focus to a more fashion- and romance-oriented approach while still emphasizing the importance of self-confidence in young women. Alongside its primary themes, Seventeen also reports the latest news about celebrities.
Richard Avedon was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Elle specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century".
Marie Claire is a French international monthly magazine first published in France in 1937, followed by the United Kingdom in 1941. Since then various editions are published in many countries and languages.
Martin Munkácsi was a Hungarian photographer who worked in Germany (1928–1934) and the United States, where he was based in New York City.
Alexey Vyacheslavovich Brodovitch was a Russian-American photographer, designer and instructor who is most famous for his art direction of fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958.
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Carmel Snow was the editor-in-chief of the American edition of Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958; and the chair of the magazine's editorial board. She was famously quoted as saying, "Elegance is good taste, plus a dash of daring".
Carine Roitfeld is a French fashion editor, former fashion model, and writer. She is the former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris, a position she held from 2001 to 2011. In 2012, she became founder and editor-in-chief of CR Fashion Book, a bi-annual print magazine headquartered in New York City.
Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, known professionally as Hiro (ヒロ), was a Japanese-American commercial photographer. He was known for his fashion and still life photography from the mid-1960s onward.
Sybil Connolly was a celebrated fashion designer and global icon known for her innovative use of traditional Irish textiles in haute couture. Often described as "Dublin's Dior", she achieved international repute and success, making her one of the first Irish designers to do so. She was a member of the "Big Three" Irish fashion designers, and was described by former Taoiseach Jack Lynch as "a national treasure."
Dame Glenda Adrianne Bailey DBE is a former editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, a monthly fashion magazine published by the Hearst Corporation. She was in this position from May 2001 to 2020.
Lillian Bassman was an American photographer and painter.
Mary Jane Russell was a New York City-based American photographic fashion model active from 1948 to 1961. She often worked with Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Irving Penn, and appeared on many covers for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar during the course of her modelling career. Her husband was Edward Russell, who became president of the advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach.
Michael Patrick Avedon is an American photographer living in New York City. Avedon works commercially as a fashion photographer and makes portraits for his personal work – including an ongoing series of artists in their studios.
Noelie Dasouza Machado, known as China Machado, was a Chinese-born American fashion model, editor, and television producer. She was the first model of color to appear in a major American fashion magazine, in the February 1959 issue of Harper’s Bazaar.
David Attie was a prominent American photographer, widely published in magazines and books from the late 1950s until his passing in the 1980s. He was one of the last great proteges of legendary photography teacher and art director Alexey Brodovitch. Attie worked in a wide range of styles, illustrating everything from novels to magazine and album covers to subway posters, and taking now-iconic portraits of Truman Capote, Bobby Fischer, Lorraine Hansberry, and many others. He also created the first-ever visual depiction of Holly Golightly, the main character in Breakfast at Tiffany's, when he illustrated the Capote novella's first appearance in Esquire Magazine. He was best known in his lifetime for his signature photo montages—an approach he called "multiple-image photography": highly inventive, pre-Photoshop collages that he made by combining negatives in the darkroom. His work has received new attention with a pair of posthumous books: the well-reviewed 2015 publication of his Capote collaboration "Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir, With The Lost Photographs of David Attie," and the 2021 collection of his behind-the-scenes photographs from the very first season of Sesame Street, "The Unseen Photos of Street Gang." He has been the subject of several solo exhibits in recent years, including a two-year retrospective at the Brooklyn Historical Society. One recent critic wrote that even decades later, "his explorations of photomontage remain durably inspired, innovative, and visually dynamic."
Marie-Louise Bousquet was a French fashion journalist and former Paris editor of Harper's Bazaar. She is credited with being one of the first to recognise the potential of Christian Dior in 1938, introducing him to Carmel Snow who in 1947, would be instrumental in publicising Dior's first couture collection.
Gleb Derujinsky was an American fashion photographer. He worked for Esquire, Look, Life, Glamour, Town and Country and The New York Times Magazine, before shooting extensively for Harper’s Bazaar. Eileen Ford, founder of Ford Models agency, described him as an “early visionary on a path that others were to follow”.
William "Bill" Helburn was an American fashion and advertising photographer, best known for images published in magazines including Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Life, Town and Country, Esquire and Charm. Over the course of his career, Helburn won more than 46 professional awards for magazine and television ads. He died in November 2020 at the age of 96.
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