Fashion magazines have always severed a dual purpose. On the one hand they are the style bibles, disseminating information on the latest trends. But the most legendary of fashion tomes also had the ability to become a jewel box of ideas; transporting its readers to far off lands and exposing them to new notions of beauty. In later years, with the ease in travel and communication, the Middle East and North Africa began to appear as a backdrop to Vogue’s fashion stories more frequently: Aristo-model Stella Tennant photographed in Damascus by Tom Craig for British Vogue’s May 2009 issue; Christy Turlington in Claude Montana photographed in Marrakesh by Patrick Demarchelier for British Vogue February 1993; Tatiana Patitz captured in a Cairo souk by Demarchelier for British Vogue.
