Introducing Our New Book: Glamour, An Extraordinary History.
glamour.comBy All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission.To celebrate Glamour's 85th birthday this year, we wrote a book.
And not just any book. For the first time we wanted to tell the incredible story of Glamour's origins, the famous names who helped shape the magazine, our many historic firsts, and our unique contribution to the evolution of women's power over the last nine decades—and you can be among the first to order it.AmazonGlamour was launched in 1939, as a magazine dedicated to recreating the beauty and fashions of Hollywood.
But, after the outbreak of World War Two, women wanted more—and Glamour relaunched in 1943 “for the girl with a job”. That set the magazine, and its staff, on a journey that would define its whole future.From the 1940s on, our book chronicles how Glamour became a fighting force for women's freedom—be it financial, reproductive, sexual and more.
Glamour was the first American fashion magazine to feature a Black cover star, Katiti Kironde, and the first to put model Beverly Johnson on the cover (she starred 15 times).
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