It’s Halloween so rounding up a gaggle of extreme makeup images from the 1980s seemed totally appropriate. These aren’t everyday...
October, 2014
Big Book Offers a Brief Modern History of London Fashion
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Big Book Offers a Brief Modern History of London Fashion
The London Fashion Book By Andrew Tucker Rizzoli, 192 pages, 1998 A teen in the 1980s, the 1990s were all...
You Know It’s Thriller, Thriller Night
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You Know It’s Thriller, Thriller Night
Kevin thought it would be funny to go to the Halloween dance. I’ll admit that I sort of did too....
Oscar de la Renta
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Oscar de la Renta
The fashion industry lost one of its greats last week with Oscar de la Renta’s death. Looking back at his...
The ’80s All-Black Wardrobe
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The ’80s All-Black Wardrobe
It was inevitable that as a teenager I would wear so much black because in my life until that point...
Really Saying Something
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Really Saying Something
Expressing yourself through the words on a shirt or sweater has a long tradition. In the ’80s, slogan tops ranged...
’80s Annual a Treasure Trove of Images
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’80s Annual a Treasure Trove of Images
Photographis 85: The International Annual of Advertising and Editorial Photography Edited by Walter Herdeg Graphis Press, 220 pages, 1985 If...
The Look of Love. Yuck.
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The Look of Love. Yuck.
I thought tonight would never end. But it did — finally. Thank god. Now I’m back home, in the little...
L’Oréal
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L’Oréal
It’s impossible to be a fashion magazine junkie and not be at all affected by advertising. My personal case-in-point: the...
’80s Iman
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’80s Iman
In the 1980s I went to one of Western Canada’s largest high schools. There were almost 3,000 students and pretty...