n Vogue draws a 75-year-long composite through Vogue magazine, tracing how fashion still controls most aspects of our lives. These decades are explored within the context of the impact of changing attitudes and innovations in politics, music, visual arts, and literary movements on personal appearance. Over the years, Vogue has exposed us to trendsetters--from the duchesses of "polite society" in the 1910s to rgw pop stars and media hounds of the 1980s "trash culture." Just as effectively, Vogue has raised the art of fashion photography during this century: In Vogue culls more than 300 examples from some of the world's most renown photographers from Beaton to Weber. Howell's record reveals how the absurdities and affectations of female fashions inundate our life-styles. This delicious documentary of our century should definitely be included on library sociology or fashion shelves. --Janet Lawrence