The cover to the June 1914 issue of
Vanity Fair, an American
magazine published from 1913 to 1936 by
Condé Montrose Nast, the first of many published by his company
Condé Nast Publications. Nast purchased a men's fashion magazine titled
Dress in 1913 and renamed it
Dress and Vanity Fair. In 1914, the title was shortened to
Vanity Fair. During its run, it competed with
The New Yorker as the American establishment's top culture chronicle and featured writing by
Thomas Wolfe,
T. S. Eliot,
P. G. Wodehouse, and
Dorothy Parker. However, it became a casualty of the
Great Depression and declining advertising revenues, and it was folded into
Vogue in 1936. In 1983, Condé Nast revived the title as a
new publication.
Artist: Ethel McClellan Plummer; Restoration: Lise Broer