Go Behind the Scenes at Some of Vogue's Most Legendary Photoshoots

Phyllis Posnick, Vogue's Executive Fashion Editor for nearly three decades, has long been a photographer's secret weapon, bringing acuity, style, and wit to her work as sittings editor for such photographic legends as the late, great Irving Penn and Helmut Newton. Her beauty images and portraits have one thing in common: Positioned between multipage fashion editorials, they must be arresting at all costs. If the reader doesn't pause at the page, it's over. Hence Stoppers (the word was coined by ...