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Vintage Vogue recently turned 25. The popular pattern line, which offers updated reissues of vintage Vogue designs, was first introduced in fall 1998. To celebrate, here’s a look back at Vintage Vogue’s journey since the last millennium.

Images promoting the earliest Vintage Vogues show a straight-up take on vintage style, with lots of fur stoles and black and white photography. Perhaps the Forties were back that season with the success of Alexander McQueen’s Fall ’98 Blade Runner collection for Givenchy.

The next year, a look from the new line was chosen for the cover of Vogue Patterns’ millennial Holiday issue. Inside, a Forties noir Vintage Vogue editorial features what is still the only men’s Vintage Vogue to date — a ’40s zoot suit.

For many years, illustrator Lamont O’Neal created the envelope illustrations for Vintage Vogue patterns, as well as more than one catalogue cover.

A quarter-century on, today’s Vintage Vogues have come of age, speaking to a more contemporary take on “vintage” that reflects current trends.

Happy 25th birthday, Vintage Vogue! For more on the Vintage Vogue pattern line, see my earlier posts, or click the Vintage Vogue tag below.