Just how does pricing on these back issues work? Because there's not a solid market for it, it's more of an art than it is a science:
Claire Danes covers the July 1998 issue of Vogue, shot by Steven Meisel. In the interview with Jonathan Van Meter — does Vogue just keep him on some kind of Hollywood starlet retainer? — she is set to start at Yale in the fall, and confesses she's nervous she'll get kicked out. Amy Astley is still the beauty director, years away from launching Teen Vogue.
Related Articles6 Tips from Powersellers on Selling Stuff and Making Money OnlineIs There Such a Thing as an 'Investment' Piece?How Digital Editors are Bringing Their Print Magazines Into the Modern AgeSo, who, exactly, is selling these magazines? Matt Oran is one seller on eBay who specializes in the field of paper collectibles, a business he followed his dad into after leaving a job at the New York Stock Exchange; he sold me the coveted Gwyneth Paltrow issue.
"[My friend] told me that the fashion world, every 20 or 30 so years, they recycle a lot of the looks, and the main way they were able to do this is going back to a Vogue from the '90s, and what was hot then," he says.
"I had always been really into fashion but also video games, and seeing a bunch of cool plastic accessories with this crazy cartoon aesthetic was the first time I realized those two things could exist in harmony," she tells me over email. "This was in 1997, a year before Pokémon came out in the U.S., so that aesthetic had not full entered the public consciousness yet.
Bigger issues, like March and September, can command more. And if an issue is famous for any reason, it will also command high prices. Oran says that, at one point, the September issue of Vogue starring Sienna Miller — made famous, of course, in "The September Issue" — was going for $100, and Anna Wintour's first issue of the magazine can also go for eye-watering figures. Most crucially, condition plays a major factor in pricing.
If you're kicking yourself over throwing your old issues of Vogue in the recycling, don't: Individual sellers aren't big movers of back issues. Many, like Oran, are in the paper collectible trade. They're buying their stock at estate sales and auctions, or find sources through word of mouth. Often, sellers have to travel long distances to pick up their bounty from people who just want to get rid of the collections that are clogging up their homes.
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