Georges Lepape is a French illustrator, who was born in Paris in 1887; he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and he soon entered the world of art.
In 1911 he created the book entitled Les Choses de Paul Poiret, by illustrating the maison’s collection. His illustrations show some thin and long-limbed feminine silhouettes, whose head are wrapped into turbans. During that time, he started collaborating with La Gazette du bon ton. Georges Lepape created many sketches for some important houses of fashion, such as Lanvin, Worth and Doucet, and he created the cover pages of Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair and the first British edition of Vogue; he also worked for many years with the American edition of Condé Nast.
Here, we selected 48 extraordinary Vogue covers illustrated by Georges Lepape from between the late 1910s and early 1930s.
In 1911 he created the book entitled Les Choses de Paul Poiret, by illustrating the maison’s collection. His illustrations show some thin and long-limbed feminine silhouettes, whose head are wrapped into turbans. During that time, he started collaborating with La Gazette du bon ton. Georges Lepape created many sketches for some important houses of fashion, such as Lanvin, Worth and Doucet, and he created the cover pages of Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair and the first British edition of Vogue; he also worked for many years with the American edition of Condé Nast.
Here, we selected 48 extraordinary Vogue covers illustrated by Georges Lepape from between the late 1910s and early 1930s.
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| May 1917 |
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| August 1917 |
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| June 1918 |
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| November 1918 |
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| January 1919 |
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| July 1920 |
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| September 1920 |
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| May 1921 |
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| November 1922 |
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| January 1923 |
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| April 1923 |
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| June 1923 |
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| December 1923 |
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| June 1924 |
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| June 1924 |
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| October 1924 |
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| January 1925 |
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| March 1925 |
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| May 1925 |
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| October 1925 |
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| August 1926 |
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| February 1927 |
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| March 1927 |
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| May 1927 |
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| November 1927 |
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| January 1928 |
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| May 1928 |
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| October 1928 |
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| November 1928 |
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| January 1929 |
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| February 1929 |
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| May 1929 |
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| June 1929 |
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| October 1929 |
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| December 1929 |
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| March 1930 |
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| April 1930 |
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| November 1930 |
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| June 1931 |
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| July 1931 |
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| January 1932 |
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| August 1932 |
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| February 1933 |
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| March 1933 |
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| October 1933 |
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