The English and American archives of "Vogue" magazine have been raided to produce this volume of beautiful and stylish women of character. Photographed as icons of their time, they reveal not only our aspirations but relate the changing role of women over eight decades.

The word Vogue conjures up powerful images of glamour, beauty and style. The women selected by Vogue over almost a century, photographed by the greatest photographers as the icons of their time, reveal not only our aspirations but relate the changing role of women over eight decades. Glamorous, noble, sexy, tragic and continuously talented, Vogue has featured beautiful and stylish women of character. For the first time, Georgina Howell brings together these images from Vogue's English and American archives with powerful commentary.