Vogue

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First of all their tie-dye jeans were featured in French Vogue, then model Kylie were seen out wearing them and then finally the ultimate seal approval came when Kate Moss was

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  1. The mode or fashion prevalent at any particular time; popular reception, repute, or estimation; common currency: now generally used in the phrase in vogue: as, a particular style of dress was then in. vogue; a writer who was in vogue fifty years ago; such opinions are now in vogue. The Lord Treasurer Weston is he who hath the greatest Vogue now at Court, but many great ones have clashed with him. Howell, Letters, I. v. 31. Though Christianity were directly contrary to the Religions then in vogue in the world, yet they [men] knew of no other way of promoting it but by patience, humility, meekness, prayers for their persecutors, and tears when they saw them obstinate. Stillingflect, Sermons, I. iii. The Wits of the Age, the great Beauties, and short-liv'd People of Vogue, were always her Discourse and Imitation. Steele, Tender Husband, i. 1. The vogue of operas holds up wonderfully, though we have had them a year. Swift, Letter, March 22,1708-9. I demanded who were the present theatrical writers in vogue. Goldsmith, Vicar, xviii.
  2. General drift of ideas; rumor; report. The vogue of our few honest folks here is that Duck is absolutely to succeed Eusden in the laurel. Swift, To Gay, Nov. 19, 1730. Some affirm the Earl of Suffolk … goes general of the fleet; but most opinions give it to my Lord Denbigh…. Captain Pennington hath the vogue to go his vice-admiral. Court and Times of Charles I., I. 131.

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  • 'I've never seen anything from Carine [Roitfeld] that astonishes me the way that I have in American Vogue. —  Jezebel
  • Gwyneth Paltrow's revelation in Spanish Vogue that her son and daughter, Moses and Apple, have regular playdates with the children of Stella McCartney and Madonna got us thinking: What would the conversation at one of these get-togethers sound like? —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Some see it as the inevitable decline of Vogue, which is ridiculous. —  ShoppingBlog.com
  • Does Chanel need anymore photo spreads in French Vogue? —  On the Runway
  • Turlington was booked for Escada, and, last year, Crawford staged her comeback with a shoot in French Vogue; Campbell has never really gone away. —  The Guardian World News
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  1. from French vogue, fashion, vogue (= Spanish boga, fashion, reputation, = Portuguese It voga, a rowing), orig. sway, the swaying motion of a ship, the stroke of an oar, from voguer = Provencal Portuguese vogar = Spanish bogar = Italian vogare, row or sail, proceed under sail, from Old High German wagōn, Middle High German wagen, German wogen, fluctuate, float, from waga, a waving, akin to wāg, Middle High German wāc, a wave (later F. vague), German woge, a wave: see waw.
 

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