november-books

Anna Piaggi / Antonio Lopez - Vanity Magazine no.8

Scarce. The legendary magazine created by Anna Piaggi and showcasing her favourite designers and illustrators. Like a parallel fashion universe. Very Antonio Lopez heavy- in fact almost every article/editorial and many of the advertisments are by him. Plus Horst, Roxanne Lowit, Chloe (by Lagerfeld), menswear, Gaultier for Gibo, Prada, Fendi, Sportmax, Versace and all the usual Italian stuff. Clothes are great, but what made Vanity special was Piaggi's eye and Lopez's interpretations. The best thing Conde Nast did in the eighties. Very special.

Scarce. The legendary magazine created by Anna Piaggi and showcasing her favourite designers and illustrators. Like a parallel fashion universe. Very Lopez heavy, nearly everything is illustrated by him, and nearly all the photographs are by Castaldi. India, Studio Alchimia (wow!), Lagerfeld and the new Chanel, Bill Cunningham, Venice, Westwood and World's End, Fiorucci and more. So good it's difficult to believe it actually exists.

Scarce. The legendary magazine created by Anna Piaggi and showcasing her favourite designers and illustrators. Like a parallel fashion universe. Very Lopez heavy, nearly everything is illustrated by him, and nearly all the photographs are by Castaldi. Versace, Lagerfeld, lots of Bill Cunningham shooting Mugler and a lot of catwalk action amongst other things, polaroids by Juan Ramos, JC/DC, Westwood, Yohji Yamamoto, Valentino, Roxanne Lowit. The best thing on paper from 1983- and that's by a long shot.

The Alchymia (sic) research program into decor, in collaboration with the centrodomus. Split into sections, architecture, furnishings and objects, cars, fashion. Full of Memphis-esque patterns, hand tint photocopies and textiles patterns. The whole books is produced on a colour photocopier, and is about as good as a research project or potential sourcebook could get! Superb, and extremely scarce.