California Fashion Designers: Art and Style By Douglas Bullis Gibbs M. Smith, 150 pages, 1987 Quick — name five California-based...
July, 2014
That’s Liza With a Z
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That’s Liza With a Z
At first I thought, get me out of here. There is no way I am spending the one Saturday night...
Gilles Bensimon for Elle
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Gilles Bensimon for Elle
It’s a shame that there are people who only know Gilles Bensimon as the photographer the winner of so many...
’80s Molly Ringwald
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’80s Molly Ringwald
I could dress in head-to-toe black, mope about my parents’ house and complain about everything, but none of that would...
Pulling Faces
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Pulling Faces
Going through so many fashion images every week, it’s easy to get a bit cynical seeing page after page of...
Magazines, From Cover-to-Cover
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Magazines, From Cover-to-Cover
100 Years of Magazine Covers By Steve Taylor Black Dog Publishing, 256 pages, 2006 I don’t think that most people...
I Get So Emotional (Baby)
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I Get So Emotional (Baby)
I’ve never not taken one of Mark’s calls before, but I really didn’t know what else to do. The mix-tape...
Danskin
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Danskin
Danskin’s long-time motto, “not just for dancing” was particularly relevant in the aerobics-obsessed and body-con ’80s. The brand promoted its...
’80s Vogue Patterns Magazine
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’80s Vogue Patterns Magazine
Someone asked me once to name the fashion publication I thought was most underrated — from the ’80s or otherwise....
White Hatters
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White Hatters
In the throes of summer there’s always one thing to consider: hats. More specifically: white hats that don’t attract any...