A Dazzling Vision of the Roaring 20's, on the cover of Vogue, Elliott Best Original artwork

It is the summer of 1926. Jazz fills the air, hemlines have risen, and the world is drunk on glamour. On the cover of Vogue, two young women in shimmering silver gowns and extravagant feathered headdresses stare back at you with the cool, knowing confidence of an era that had decided, once and for all, to have a magnificent time. This is that cover — one of the most exuberant images of the Jazz Age, exactly as it appeared on newsstands a century ago.

In the 1920s, Vogue covers were hand-illustrated by the finest fashion artists of the age — each one a unique work of art in its own right. The era produced some of the most iconic images in the history of fashion and graphic design. Bold colour, theatrical costume, and an unmistakable sense of joie de vivre defined the decade's visual language. Original covers from this period are among the most sought-after pieces of vintage print ephemera in the world.

The summer of 1926 was the year that Hemingway published The Sun Also Rises. The year Josephine Baker conquered Paris. The year the world looked to fashion not just for clothing, but for a vision of who it wanted to become. This cover is a perfect, shimmering fragment of that extraordinary moment.

An Elliott Best Original sourced and presented on premium archival museum stock — colours as vivid and alive as the day this cover first graced the newsstands of New York and London.