Apart from the Occupation, nothing has ever prevented the publication of Vogue Paris. Every month since June 1920, the magazine owned by the American group Condé Nast has been making and breaking trends, driven by a squadron of artists, illustrators, stylists, and visionaries. If the title has rooted a certain idea of French fashion and the figure of the Parisian woman in the collective imagination, it is mainly thanks to an international, cooperative effort.

Vogue Paris appeared eleven years after the acquisition of Vogue, then a weekly society gazette, by the American lawyer and publisher Condé Montrose Nast (he also launched a British version in 1916). The early days of the magazine, affectionately nicknamed “Frog,” a contraction of “French” and “Vogue,” were marked by transatlantic interaction. Edna Woolman Chase, editor in chief of the American edition, regularly visited her French counterparts and participated in the magazine’s creative frenzy. In the 1920s, the American couturier Main Rousseau Bocher took over the Parisian editorial team before launching his own fashion house. Sixty years later, Joan Juliet Buck – the first and, so far, the only American woman to have helmed the French magazine – continued this tradition of exchange.