If I were asked to name the biggest contribution to fashion history the 1980s gave us it would have to...
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Supermoon
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Supermoon
On Sunday night the biggest supermoon (known as an extra-supermoon) of 2014 will be visible. It’s the closet and brightest...
London Calling
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London Calling
It isn’t fair. My family is from Germany, but it’s not like we ever get to go there. I’m sitting...
Seventeen, August 1984
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Seventeen, August 1984
It’s pretty clear that I loved the August 1984 issue of Seventeen. The cover as you can see is worn,...
Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of July 2014
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Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of July 2014
184 images were posted to the periodicult.tumblr.com site last month. We gathered a list of the most liked and reblogged:...
Vacation — All I Ever Wanted
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Vacation — All I Ever Wanted
As I sit at my desk today, on the cusp of the annual long weekend known usually as The August...
West Coast Design, 80s Style
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West Coast Design, 80s Style
California Fashion Designers: Art and Style By Douglas Bullis Gibbs M. Smith, 150 pages, 1987 Quick — name five California-based...
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...