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During her time as editor of British Vogue from 1922-26, Dorothy Todd altered the magazine’s interest and content from fashion to a broader inclusion of modernist literature and art.[1] Unlike her predecessor, Elspeth Champcommunal, who focused on fashion, travel, and trends; Todd included work of modernists such as Wyndam Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Clive Bell, Virginia Woolf, and Aldous Huxley(guard).[2] Much of the “the failure of [her] Vogue to sustain itself within the specific context of Condé Nast’s corporate structure and the general context of British culture in the 1920s”[3] can likely be attributed to its progressive nature and “significant subcultural context”[4] such as blatant homosexual undertones. This bold shift was an unpopular alteration which resulted in her dismissal in 1926 and she failed to recover from this professional setback.
Dorothy Todd, affectionately known as ‘Dody,[5]’ was born in 1883, and during her time as editor, lived in Chelsea, London with her lover and assistant, Madge Garland. Their friend, Freddie Ashton produced a ballet in 1926 entitled A Tragedy of Fashion, featuring two characters designed to parallel Todd and Garland.[6]
References
- ^ http://www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/past-british-vogue-editors-history.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Fisher, Alice (2014-03-14). "The 10 best Vogue moments". the Guardian. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
- ^ Reed, Christopher. "A Vogue That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Sexual Subculture during the Editorship of Dorothy Todd, 1922-26." Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, vol. 10, no. 1/2, Mar/Jun2006, p. 39. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.wlu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=oih&AN=21101163&site=ehost-live.pp.61
- ^ Reed, Christopher. "A Vogue That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Sexual Subculture during the Editorship of Dorothy Todd, 1922-26." Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, vol. 10, no. 1/2, Mar/Jun2006, p. 39. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.wlu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=oih&AN=21101163&site=ehost-live.pp.46
- ^ Reed, Christopher. "A Vogue That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Sexual Subculture during the Editorship of Dorothy Todd, 1922-26." Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, vol. 10, no. 1/2, Mar/Jun2006, p. 39. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.wlu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=oih&AN=21101163&site=ehost-live.
- ^ Pender, Anne. "'Modernist Madonnas': Dorothy Todd, Madge Garland and Virginia Woolf." Women's History Review, vol. 16, no. 4, Oct. 2007, pp. 519-533. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/09612020701445867.