Vintage Vogue Fashion Cover — Art Deco Magazine
Stable DiffusionAn SDXL prompt for a vintage 1930s Vogue magazine cover — an elegant woman in a bias-cut fur-trimmed satin gown in an S-curve pose, flat gouache and ink linework with Art Deco chevron and sunburst border, ivory and charcoal with dusty rose and gold, an empty masthead panel.
Last tested: August 2026 with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
Part of the Stable Diffusion prompt library · see more vintage prompts .
Prompt
A vintage 1930s Vogue magazine cover illustration, an elegant woman in a floor-length bias-cut satin gown with a fur-trimmed collar, her body in a graceful S-curve pose, one hand raising a long cigarette holder, her head tilted with chin lifted, sleek finger-wave bobbed hair, defined dark eyebrows and cupid-bow lips in the Art Deco illustration style, flat gouache and ink linework on cream paper, geometric chevron and sunburst border framing, palette of ivory, charcoal black, dusty rose, and gold leaf accents, a large empty panel across the top third for the masthead, no text, no letters, no masthead, no signature
Negative prompt
photorealistic, 3d render, modern clothing, bright colours, text, words, letters, watermark, signature, face too smooth, photographic skin
Settings
- Model
- Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
- Aspect ratio
- 2:3
- Steps
- 30
- CFG scale
- 7
- Sampler
- DPM++ 2M Karras
How to use this prompt
"Art Deco illustration style" plus "flat gouache and ink linework on cream paper" is the anchor that holds this as a 1930s magazine cover rather than a photograph — without naming the flat gouache, SDXL drifts toward a smooth photographic render. "S-curve pose" with "chin lifted" and "one hand raising a long cigarette holder" is the postural vocabulary of the era's cover art, and these specific cues are what stop the figure from landing in a modern stance. "Finger-wave bobbed hair" and "cupid-bow lips" are the period-specific beauty markers. The empty masthead panel is the text rule: no diffusion model renders "VOGUE" cleanly at cover scale, so leave the top third blank and typeset the masthead afterwards.
Variations to try
- Recolour the gown to emerald green satin with a silver fox collar for a winter issue palette
- Redraw as a menswear cover: a double-breasted pinstripe suit with a tilted fedora and a monocle
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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON
{
"title": "Vintage Vogue Fashion Cover — Art Deco Magazine",
"prompt": "A vintage 1930s Vogue magazine cover illustration, an elegant woman in a floor-length bias-cut satin gown with a fur-trimmed collar, her body in a graceful S-curve pose, one hand raising a long cigarette holder, her head tilted with chin lifted, sleek finger-wave bobbed hair, defined dark eyebrows and cupid-bow lips in the Art Deco illustration style, flat gouache and ink linework on cream paper, geometric chevron and sunburst border framing, palette of ivory, charcoal black, dusty rose, and gold leaf accents, a large empty panel across the top third for the masthead, no text, no letters, no masthead, no signature",
"negative_prompt": "photorealistic, 3d render, modern clothing, bright colours, text, words, letters, watermark, signature, face too smooth, photographic skin",
"model": "Stable Diffusion",
"model_version": "SDXL 1.0",
"settings": {
"aspect_ratio": "2:3",
"steps": 30,
"cfg": 7,
"sampler": "DPM++ 2M Karras"
},
"style_tags": [
"vintage",
"flat-design"
],
"use_case_tags": [
"fashion",
"illustration"
],
"source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/stable-diffusion/vintage-vogue-fashion-cover/"
}The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.
