Giorgio de Chirico for Vogue
Giorgio de Chirico
cover for Vogue (British Edition), 8 January 1936
“Some magazines, including Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, asked me for illustrations and I did some, but I must confess that the atmosphere of these magazines, just like other atmospheres where the snobbery of American elegance flourished, were totally unpleasing to me, for I have observed in them such stupidity, such ignorance, such ill-will, such cynicism and such disguised vulgarity that in comparison the lowest illiterate Neapolitan beggar, thief and pimp seems a genius, a gentleman and a saint.”
