I was 14 when I bought my first party dress — it was black and white, sleeveless, with a drop-waist...
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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...
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...
Emanuel Ungaro
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Emanuel Ungaro
Print-mixing is tricky, but if there’s one designer who always got it right it’s Emanuel Ungaro. Whether it was high-end...
Geoffrey Beene
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Geoffrey Beene
American designer Geoffrey Beene (1924-2004) is simply not given enough credit for his work in the 1980s. He’s not always...
’80s Country Girl Chic
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’80s Country Girl Chic
I come from a city in the Canadian west traditionally known for its international rodeo, country music and down-home western...
’80s Vogue Patterns Magazine
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’80s Vogue Patterns Magazine
Someone asked me once to name the fashion publication I thought was most underrated — from the ’80s or otherwise....
Sonia Rykiel
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Sonia Rykiel
There are designers I loved in the 1980s for their runway theatrics (like Gaultier) and those I adored for the...
’80s Stephen Sprouse
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’80s Stephen Sprouse
When I was about 17 all I wanted was to live the life I read about in the pages of...
Mademoiselle, July 1984
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Mademoiselle, July 1984
I was in my late teens in the late 1980s when I really took a shine to Mademoiselle. It skewed...