Kate Moss leads the stars in exhibition for British Vogue's 100th birthday

More than 280 pictures, including work by Cecil Beaton, David Bailey and Mario Testino, will be included in the show at the National Portrait Gallery
Star attraction: Kate Moss with the coupe created in her honour for Restaurant 34
Robert Dex @RobDexES9 September 2015

Kate Moss and fellow supermodel Linda Evangelista are among the stars whose images are going on show in an exhibition celebrating a century of glamour in the pages of British Vogue.

More than 280 pictures, including work by Cecil Beaton, David Bailey and Mario Testino, will be included in the show at the National Portrait Gallery.

The portraits include images of stars from Marlene Dietrich to Gwyneth Paltrow and from Fred Astaire to David Beckham.

Moss features in a shot taken by Testino at the Master Shipwright’s House in Deptford in 2008, while Evangelista appears in a shoot by Patrick Demarchelier in 1991.

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Other subjects include models Claudia Schiffer, who is pictured on the back of a bike in Paris in 1989, and Lara Stone. They are joined by figures from the world of art such as Francis Bacon and Damien Hirst. Vogue was founded by publishers Condé Nast in 1916 when the First World War made transatlantic shipments of American Vogue impossible and has tracked the changing styles of the nation ever since.

Editor-in-chief Alexandra Shulman said: “I am incredibly proud of this collection of exceptional photography and of the whole concept of the exhibition, which shows the breadth and depth of the work commissioned by the magazine as well as Vogue’s involvement in the creation of that work. The National Portrait Gallery is a wonderful place for this show, which mixes portraiture and contemporaneous artistic style in the same way as much of the gallery’s own collection.”

Gallery director Dr Nicholas Cullinan said: “British Vogue has played a pivotal role in the development of photographic portraiture over the past century, commissioning leading photographers and designers to produce some of the most memorable and influential images in the history of fashion. We are extremely grateful to Alexandra Shulman and her team for giving us unprecedented access to the treasures of the Condé Nast archive and for allowing us to present a panoramic view of this hugely important British institution on a scale that has never been seen before.”

The show, which marks the magazine’s 100th anniversary next year, runs from February 11 to May 22.

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