In Vogue: The 90s

This programme is on the face of it great fun - not unlike its subject matter. It gives a great sense of the environment and the world the magazine represents as well as the decade.

However, also like its subject matter, it's all a bit frivolous. If you're looking for an in depth study of the workings of the magazine - like the fantastic documentary 'The September Issue' or the BBC's marvellous 'Boss Women' and their series 'The Look' - you will be sorely disappointed. Focusing more on the culture of the time and pinpointing specific, pivotal moments of the decade, details of Vogue's contribution to it feel like they're mentioned merely in passing more than as the main core of the show.

One of the other main let downs are the inclusion of contributors like magazine editor Edward Eninnful and film director Baz Luhrmann. Both of these men though perhaps emergent in their fields during the 90s were hardly at the forefront of the field of fashion and certainly not at Vogue. You get the impression that both are included merely by the fact that they have recently been flavour of the month - Enninful with his forgettable tenure at the helm of British Vogue and Luhrmann simply because he's one of Wintour's buddies of the moment.

All this said the show is great fun and definitely worth watching. Just don't expect anything more than a celluloid edition of the superficial glossy.