W: The Designing Life By the staff of W Edited by Lois Perschetz Fairchild Publictions/Clarkson Potter, 224 pages, 1987 If...
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Shock of the New
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Shock of the New
Exposure! Young British Photographers Photographs From Blitz Magazine 1980-1987 Compiled by Simon Tesler and Jeremy Leslie Ebury Press, 122 pages,...
For the Love of Smash Hits
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For the Love of Smash Hits
The Best of Smash Hits: the ’80s edited by Mark Firth Sphere, 192 pages, 2006 If there is one guilty...
Fashion’s Future, Imagined
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Fashion’s Future, Imagined
Fashion 2001 by Lucille Khornak Viking Press, 112 pages, 1982 I am a sucker for any book about the future...
Inside the Design Mind of Neville Brody
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Inside the Design Mind of Neville Brody
The Graphic Language of Neville Brody by Jo Wozencroft Thames and Hudson, 160 pages, 1988 Two names always come to...
Colouring For Grown Ups — ’80s Style
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Colouring For Grown Ups — ’80s Style
The Fashion Coloring Book By Sharon Lee Tate and Mona Shafer Edwards Harper & Row, 192 pages, 1984 I have...
Illustrator Tony Viramontes’ Short, Bright Life
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Illustrator Tony Viramontes’ Short, Bright Life
Bold, Beautiful, and Damned: The World of 1980s Fashion Illustrator Tony Viramontes by Dean Rhys Morgan Laurence King Publishing, 192...
Pierre et Gilles’ Cult of Kitsch
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Pierre et Gilles’ Cult of Kitsch
Pierre et Gilles by Nicholas Curry (aka Momus) Taschen, 80 pages, 1993 In 1997, on a trip to Europe, I...
A View From the Street
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A View From the Street
Street Style: British Design in the 80s by Catherine McDermott Rizzoli, 144 pages, 1987 Street fashion isn’t all about clothing,...
The Weird, Wonderful World of the Discorats
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The Weird, Wonderful World of the Discorats
The Discorats by Geoffrey Beitz and David Wood Methuen Children’s Books, 28 pages, 1985. Vintage 1980s love and rare children’s...