Who says you need a super-famous supermodel front-and-centre to sell your makeup? Chanel certainly didn’t think so. The French design...
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Steve Hiett for ’80s Vogue Patterns Magazine
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Steve Hiett for ’80s Vogue Patterns Magazine
It’s not often that I discover an ’80s fashion photographer whose name I didn’t already know. I was — and...
Neon Love
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Neon Love
For better or worse, ’80s fashion is synonymous with many things: big shoulder pads, puffy taffeta party dresses and of...
Brooke Shields
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Brooke Shields
Before the supermodels surfaced in the late 1980s, Brooke Shields was the decade’s biggest modelling star. We all knew her...
’80s Menswear Dressing
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’80s Menswear Dressing
Menswear dressing in the 1980s typically did not mean menswear-inspired dressing, it meant suit, tie, button-up shirt — especially the...
Scarf Season
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Scarf Season
Who doesn’t love a good scarf? And especially — who doesn’t love a good ’80s scarf? The 1980s was the...
Avedon’s Versace — There Are No Words
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Avedon’s Versace — There Are No Words
Versace: The Naked & The Dressed 20 Years of Versace by Avedon Random House, 196 pages, 1998 Okay, so there...
Glamour, November 1984
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Glamour, November 1984
I didn’t buy Glamour magazine every month in the 1980s — not like I did with Vogue and, when I...
Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of October 2014
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Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of October 2014
184 images were posted to the periodicult.tumblr.com site last month. We gathered a list of the most liked and reblogged:...
The Thick of Fall
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The Thick of Fall
Above: Cerruti 1881, Vogue, November 1980. Photograph by Jean Loup Sieff. November may be the perfect fashion month. Hardcore winter...