Monday, 2 July 2018

Joy Division Shimmy.... / Jon Savage



Edition : First / Hulme / Self published / 1979 / Softcover. / VG+
21 x 29.7cm. Xerox on white stock.

Flyer for a very early Joy Division night at the Russell Club, Royce Road, Hulme with Artwork by Jon Savage. Reputedly a reasonable number of flyers were made (low hundreds), though this is only the second I have seen. A handful of others are known, along with a few posters of the same image. The recording of the night was reissued with the 2007 CD of Unknown Pleasures and comprises- Dead Souls, The Only Mistake, Insight, Candidate, Wilderness, She's Lost Control, Shadowplay, Disorder, Interzone, Atrocity Exhibition, Novelty, Transmission. The gig was a month after the release of Unknown Pleasures, but which time Joy Division has become very popular as a Manchester band, with 5000 copies selling. A wonderful piece of epemera produced before Saville had cemented the Factory style, and almost a year before Cutis' death.

Wednesday, 13 June 2018

Annie Flanders / Bill Cunningham / Details (March 1983)


Another very rare early issue of Flanders' Details. Killer Bill Cunningham on the street, a huge and amazing sci fi fashion shoot, Susan Tyrell, Berlin, in the kitchen with Dynasty, phew!




Annie Flanders / 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.






Annie Flanders / Bill Cunningham / Details (Summer 1983)


Another great early issue of Flanders' Details. Killer Bill Cunningham in NY and Paris, Cookie Mueller on the road, and-  very early Steven Meisel! 












Annie Flanders / Bill Cunningham / Details (September 1985)


40 pages of Bill Cunningham, covering all the collections. The rest is good of course, but there's really one point to this issue. 40 pages of Bill Cunningham.