LONGTIME Vogue editor Grace Mirabella died on Thursday at age 91.
Mirabella served as editor-in-chief at the magazine from 1971 to 1988.
Mirabella held the top job at the fashion magazine from 1971 to 1988[/caption]She took over the reigns from Diana Vreeland and later passed them onto Anna Wintour, who still serves as the top boss at Vogue to this day.
She later went onto found another magazine, Mirabella, in 1989 with Murdoch Magazines.
The magazine was geared towards women who were interested in culture and travel as much as they were fashion and design.
During her 17-year tenure as the top editor at Vogue, Mirabella was largely credited with changing the direction of the magazine to cater more towards working women.
The magazine added sections on arts, fitness, health, and beauty, in addition to the heavy fashion focus.
During her time as editor, Vogue’s circulation tripled, according to the New York Times.
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As the fashion world went through another makeover during the mid to late 80s, Mirabella was ousted and replaced by Wintour.
Mirabella made her way into the high fashion world despite being born to Italian immigrant parents in Newark, New Jersey, early in the 20th century.
In her 1995 biography, In and Out of Vogue, she described her birth place as a “city of strivers pushing forward from immigrant enclaves.
Mirabella graduated from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1950 before taking a job at Macy’s. She also briefly worked at Saks Fifth Avenue before taking a job at Vogue.
She initially worked verifying store credits in photo captions in the magazine.
After briefly taking another job in Rome, she returned to Vogue as a shopping editor in 1955.
Through her reputation for hard work, she eventually climbed all the ranks to the top job at the publication.