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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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...
The ’80s All-Black Wardrobe
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The ’80s All-Black Wardrobe
It was inevitable that as a teenager I would wear so much black because in my life until that point...
Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of September 2014
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Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of September 2014
176 images were posted to the periodicult.tumblr.com site last month. We gathered a list of the most liked and reblogged:...
Just Smile
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Just Smile
Sometimes, after weeks of paging through vintage fashion magazines and seeing countless pouty/haughty-faced models, I’ll find myself just hoping for...
Kevyn Aucoin
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Kevyn Aucoin
There’s little question that master makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin knew beauty. In his short, 40-year life (he died suddenly in...
Pink Shock
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Pink Shock
Fashion during much of the 1980s was not about not about a mere “pop of colour.” Rather, it was often...
’80s Eyeglasses
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’80s Eyeglasses
I started wearing prescription eyeglasses when I was 18. It was probably a genetic inevitability (both of my parents wear...
Chanel feat. Ines de la Fressange
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Chanel feat. Ines de la Fressange
I miss 1980s Chanel, with all the black, sharp cuts and gold details. But mostly, I think, I miss Ines...
’80s Red Lipstick
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’80s Red Lipstick
I didn’t really understand red lipstick until I met Dani. I mean, I understood it in theory. In fact, I...