Thirty-Year Flashback

Town & Country, December 1984

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I’m not sure how it started or exactly when, but every Christmas my Dad would trek to the big magazine...

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Tumblr Top Tens

Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of November 2014

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160 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

All I Want for (’80s) Christmas

All the back-issues of Harper’s Bazaar that I’m missing in my collection. (Image: Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country magazine, December...

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Fringe Festival

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Fringe, it seems, is everywhere these days. From boots to jackets, from swimsuits to pretty much everything Amanda made on...

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Books

Getting Your Drink On, ’80s Style

Tipsy in Madras: A Complete Guide to 80s Preppy Drinking By Matt Walker and Marissa Walsh Perigree Books, 200 pages,...

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Welcome to the Little Room

Once in a Lifetime

I’m sitting in the little room listening to the Talking Heads with the book in my hands. I’m afraid to...

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Look Book

Francesco Scavullo

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Though he may be best known for his long run shooting the sexy covers of Cosmopolitan magazine, photographer Francesco Scavullo...

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Why I Love....

’80s Coloured Denim

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I have owned precisely one pair of coloured jeans in my life to this point. I bought them in the...

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Colourways

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Whenever I find an item I really, really like I’m always tempted to toss around the classic I’ll take one...

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Books

Design Catalogue Is Graphics Gold

Mecanorma: Graphic Book Mecanorma/Studio Peps, 368 pages, 1984 I’ve been a bit obsessed lately with my collection of graphic design...

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