My personal favourite, Vogue Paris celebrates its 90th birthday this year and is celebrating with a landmark October issue. Featuring a recession busting 276 pages of advertising, the magazine is clearly not dwindling in in its old age. And whilst we’re happy with a mantelpiece of cards and a wall of Facebook messages on our birthday, this special issue will contain 104 congratulatory greetings from only the coolest of the coolest. The ever popular Lara Stone will be on the cover (although no word yet if she’ll be jumping out of a birthday cake) and photographers including Terry Richardson and Mario Sorrenti have shot over 150 pages of editorial with Hedi Slimane focusing on the classis LBD with the Countess Ines de la Fressange’s 11-year-old daughter modelling. Well children do love a birthday party.

Along with this arm-busting issue, a portfolio of unbound photos from the archives will accompany the magazine but only for readers in France. If that wasn’t reason enough to hop on a plane, the magazine will be hosting a grand birthday soiree on September 30th which we would literally DIE to get an invite to.

Laura x