Vanity Fair Portraits
By FashionUnited
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The National Portrait Gallery has announced their blockbuster exhibition for 2008; Vanity Fair Portraits, Photographs 1913-2008. The luxury magazine launched 95 years ago in 1913 and received a new design a quarter of a century ago in 1983. The opening of the show will coincide with London Fashion Week and will run from February 14 until May 26. As co-host of the Private View on February 11, Vanity Fair is supporting art and fashion during London Fashion Week for the third year in a row.
David Friend, the magazine’s Editor of Creative Development and Terrence Pepper the Curator of the National Portrait Gallery curate Vanity Fair Portraits. 150 Images will be brought together including unpublished pictures from the Conde Nast archives. Established fashion designers, photographers and celebrities will be featured, including Cecil Beaton, Edward Steichen, Virginia Woolf and more recent icons like Helmut Newton, Mario Testino and Madonna. After London, Vanity Fair Portraits will go worldwide and make a stop at the Scottish Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, LACMA, Los Angeles and the National Portrait Gallery in Australia. Burberry sponsors the exhibition.
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