35 Cover Photos of Mademoiselle Magazine in the 1950s ~ Vintage Everyday

Mademoiselle was a women’s magazine first published in 1935 by Street & Smith and later acquired by Condé Nast Publications.

Mademoiselle covers in the 1950s

Mademoiselle, primarily a fashion magazine, was also known for publishing short stories by noted authors including Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Flannery O’Connor, Sylvia Plath, Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, Jane Smiley, Mary Gordon, Paul Theroux, Sue Miller, Barbara Kingsolver, Perri Klass, Michael Chabon, Mona Simpson, Alice Munro, Harold Brodkey, Pam Houston, Jean Stafford, and Susan Minot. Julia Cameron was a frequent columnist. The art director was Barbara Kruger, then it was Cipe Pineles who became it from 1961.

In the sixties, Mademoiselle was geared toward “the smart young woman”. It categorically stated in its editorials that despite the young, maidenly name, it was not geared toward young teenagers. The majority of readers may have been in college or in a job, and some may have been married. Mademoiselle was interested in reaching mature college freshmen and up who were being exposed to the greatest literature and facing the greatest moral problems coping with all the complexities of the atomic age.

Mademoiselle continued throughout the eighties and nineties featuring the top models on its covers and in the pages of the editorial sections.

The November 2001 magazine was the final issue. Some of the 93 employees and features moved over to Glamour, also published by Condé Nast. The magazine’s demise was due to multiple factors, including an editorial inability to update the magazine to appeal to a sufficient audience and an overall decline in advertising revenues across the magazine industry.

Here below is a set of vintage photos that shows covers of the Mademoiselle in the 1950s.