november-books

Wednesday, 19 February 2014

lectures on liberation #angeladavis

Bill Cunningham - Details November 1982

Issue 5 of the legendary Details. Bill Cunningham does street fashion at Paris Fashion Week, bagging Anna Piaggi and lots of Comme and Yamamoto along the way, collections, again by Cunningham including Gaultier, Alaia, Kenzo, Westwood, Kansai Yamamoto, Kawakubo, Chloe etc. its brilliant. Hats, The Genius of Charles James by Cunningham and the rest. Really excellent.

Couture special! Cunningham shoots YSL, Gres, Cardin, Lagerfeld, Lacroix et al. Amazing and substantial menswear shoots, high quality people out on the town and the rest.

Absolutely stellar issue from the heyday of Details, the legendary Downtown NY magazine of the eighties. Matsuda, Gaultier, Stephen Sprouse, Marc Jacobs, Michael Musto on Edith Head, excellent club coverage with lots of good images.

Absolutely stellar issue from the heyday of Details, the legendary Downtown NY magazine of the eighties. This issue is a behind the scenes special, so we get- behind the scenes at The Limelight, Michael Musto, Rock 'n' Roll confidential, the NY gallery scene, fashion photographers favourite pictures of themselves (Bruce Weber shown above, Deborah Turbeville, Steven Meisel etc), at home with society people and an incredibly article about fashion designers assistants, which includes a rare picture of Martin Margiela when he was working for Gaultier. Great!

#bronx streetwear 1988 #llcoolj #troop

#llcoolj x #troop 1988. ll dismissing the rumour that troop were affiliated with the klan.

#streetwear special 1988

Bill Cunningham - Bruce Weber - Details December 1983

The amazing Bruce Weber/Matt Dillon cover issue! Also has some lovely early work, Hip Hop Shoe Bop, Bill Cunningham covering hats at the Roxy, club toilets, and the downtown scene (Including a nice snap of Steven Meisel at a wig ball).

The first ever issue of the amazing Flanders/Cunningham organ Details, which by now needs no introduction. "Yes, you're on the list. In most of New York's private clubs, if you're on the list, you're in. Then you never know what to expect inside. The same applies here at Details: if you're on our list, you're in. In for surprises. We're a private publication. Our doorman is your mailman." Awesome. Has collections by Cunningham (Westwood, Comme and the like), Michael Musto, Club scene, film, Susanne Bartse, early hip hop (pictured by Antonio Lopez!).

Menswear special 'It's Reigning Men'. Plus biker girls in L.A. L.L.Cool J in a Troop/Hip Hop special, Male Idols, Hommes Spun (its incredible), plus the usual nightlife and downtown gossip.

Huge collections special with over 100 pages, all by Cunningham. Thats all of fashion as far as 1989 is concerned. Piaggi, Martine Sitbon, the first every Margiela collection (mis spent Martin Margiella), Miyake, Comme, Gaultier, Lacroix, Lagerfeld, Alaia, Galliano, Westwood, Marc Jacobs and more. Fold outs, collages, details, lots of in depth analysis. More of a Diary, and there's a lot of it. Insane.

Another monster. Over 100 pages of Bill Cunningham detailing all the major faces, shows and details. 10 pages of a very early Margiela show in a lot of detail (the third I think, Cunningham is v impressed), Galliano, Mugler, Alaia, JC/DC, Gigli, Yamamoto, Ann Demeulemeester, Dirk van Saene, Marc Jacobs and more. Every page is pure gold. What a resource!

Incredible club issue. A wonderful look back at 10 years of the Mudd Club with all the faces, a lovely piece on crews and voguing houses (Xtravaganza, Haringtons- thats Keith Haring btw, Pyramid Nation etc 2 years before Paris is Burning), Stephen Sprouse, clubs, people, downtown gossip.

42 pages of collections by Cunningham including Stephen Sprouse, Sitbon, Lacroix, Gaultier, Geoffrey Beene, Alaia, the japanese, studio Bercot, Mugler and so on. John Waters, some particularly good club coverage, insider news and the usual downtown stuff.