In fashion, they say, what goes around comes around. Now designers, fashionistas and historians -- as well as advertisers and the simply curious -- can browse Vogue's new digital archive for inspiration. It contains every page of every U.S. issue of Vogue published since the magazine launched in 1892, indexed and searchable. A yearly individual subscription is $1,575.
The archive, which is entirely web-based, contains more than 425,000 images, 300,000 ads and 100,000 articles, according to the WSJ.
Subscribers can clip, print and share content, but "anyone who sees a link on social media would encounter a paywall if not a member," Matt Dellinger, director of the Vogue Archive, told Folio. Members can "create folders for collaborative projects, which are accessible by other Vogue Archive members."
WGSN, an online trend-analysis and research firm based in London, is managing subscriptions. The archive is also hosted on ProQuest for library and academic use. Businesses can sign up for multi-user Vogue Archive subscriptions. Subscribers to the print edition of the magazine will receive access to some of Vogue Archive's content next year.