The fashion bible’s A Century of Style exhibition captures a peculiarly British sense of aristocracy, adventure and female power
Damien Hirst, scruffy in a black jumper, pulls a silly face for the camera while a Hitchcock-blond Gwyneth Paltrow strikes a pose in a Lanvin cocktail dress. The ultimate noughties cocktail party comes to life in Vogue 100: A Century of Style. The National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition for the magazine’s centenary is organised in reverse chronological order, with each room telling the story of a decade in the magazine. The effect is that each room is a Vogue vignette that captures the tone of that moment in glamorous portraits of that era’s most-invited.
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