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Sunday, 20 August 2017
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
Rags (Complete run including dummy issue)
Scarce countercultural artefact with just a few copies being held institutionally. Baron Wolman worked for Rolling Stone in the 60s and decided to club together with a couple of others to document more interesting people i.e. the ones they all saw walking along the Haight and hanging around San Francisco's more left leaning squats and communes. The result is Rags, the first ever street style magazine, and one of the first magazines to document fashion (or anti fashion) from the street rather than the catwalk or society. The magazine's echoes and legacy can be seen today in early i-D, The Face, Purple and pretty much every modern fashion magazine. The contents are brillant, from straight ups as they were later called by Terry Jones to articles on what barbers, corpses and make up counter clerks wear along with shoots and articles. Also features half the SF scene of the time such as Sylvester, The Cockettes, various groups of groupies (GTO's I think). '...fashion is not an isolated moment on some exotic island with a porcelain model, but simply an everyday sense of how people are dressing themselves.' - Baron Wolman.
Boy's Own (smiley not snidey)
The village newspaper of London Acid House. Norman Jay's lad on the cover. With Sign of the Times, Queer Nation, The Balaeric Network, clubs, fashion and faces with lots of in-jokes and time/place specific musings. Pretty much the only publication to document the movement from the inside.
Boy's Own
The village newspaper of London Acid House. weatherall, mushrooms, bouncers, a party in a field near grinstead, Girl's Own, clubs, fashion and faces with lots of in-jokes and time/place specific musings. Pretty much the only publication to document the movement from the inside.
Boy's Own (summer edition)
The village newspaper of London Acid House. Weatherall, drugs, deluxe crew, John Major, Yellow Book, Bones Party, SOTT, Full Circle, clubs, fashion and faces with lots of in-jokes and time/place specific musings. Pretty much the only publication to document the movement from the inside.
Details Magazine November 1983
Early issue of Flanders' Details. Beautiful Flanders directed lingerie and nightwear shoot where women wear mens things and vice versa, new designers, insane piece on modernist furniture dealers shot by Stephan Lupino (of The World), nightclubs, art, downtown who's who, gossip and all the rest.
Details Magazine December/January 1983/1984
The Bruce Weber/Matt Dillon cover issue. Also has some early Weber 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).
Details Magazine June 1985
Out on the town with Saban, a Rudi Gernreich retrospective, Boy George in conversation with Marilyn, Michael Kostiff, jackets by Yohji Yamamoto, Marcus Leatherdale, an awesome lo fi shoot on the streets of NY with Bodymap, Versace etc. plus Danceteria, Area, Limelight and gossip about people you actually want to hear about.
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