1898 / 1974
Cartersville, Georgia, USA ; New York City, New York, USA
Jessica Daves was born in Cartersville, Georgia, in 1898. Her grandfather, Isaac S. Hopkins, had been Emory President, and, later on, the first President of Georgia Tech University.
In 1921, Daves moved to New York, where she initially worked in advertising. In 1933, Condé Nast hired her as fashion merchandising editor for Vogue.
In 1952 she became editor-in-chief of the influential fashion magazine.
The year before, she had attended, as the representative from Vogue America, the First Italian High Fashion Show organized in Florence by Giovanni Giorgini. In the following years, she played a key role in promoting and reporting on Italian fashion designers through the pages of Vogue Magazine, leading the Italian government to honor her with the Italian Order of Merit in 1959.
Daves left Vogue in 1963 but remained an editorial consultant for a year, while also serving as president of the Fashion Group International.
Jessica died on September 21 1974, in New York City.
Related Vectors
Giovanni Battista Giorgini
imprenditore
First Italian High Fashion Show
Fashion show
Vogue US
magazine
New York
Julia Trissel
Buyer of Bergdorf Goodman
Stella Hanania
Buyer of I. Magnin
Ethel Frankau
Buyer and Director of Haute Couture Salone for Bergdorf Goodman
Documents
Sources
Alden Whitman, "Jessica Daves of Vogue is Dead; Favored Ready-To-Wear Trend," The New York Times, September 24, 1974.
Rebecca C. Tuite, 1950s in Vogue: The Jessica Daves Years 1952-1962. Londra: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2019.
Jessica Daves e Alexander Liberman (a cura di), The World in Vogue. New York: Viking Press, 1963.