80s

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Supermoon

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On Sunday night the biggest supermoon (known as an extra-supermoon) of 2014 will be visible. It’s the closet and brightest...

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Welcome to the Little Room

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...

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Thirty-Year Flashback

Seventeen, August 1984

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It’s pretty clear that I loved the August 1984 issue of Seventeen. The cover as you can see is worn,...

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Tumblr Top Tens

Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of July 2014

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184 images were posted to the periodicult.tumblr.com site last month. We gathered a list of the most liked and reblogged:...

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Editor's Letter

Vacation — All I Ever Wanted

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As I sit at my desk today, on the cusp of the annual long weekend known usually as The August...

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Books

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...

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Welcome to the Little Room

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...

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Look Book

Gilles Bensimon for Elle

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It’s a shame that there are people who only know Gilles Bensimon as the photographer the winner of so many...

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Why I Love....

’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...

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Pulling Faces

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Going through so many fashion images every week, it’s easy to get a bit cynical seeing page after page of...

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