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Perry Ellis

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Coats and knits are two of my favourite fashion things and Perry Ellis did both brilliantly in the 1980s, first...

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Golden Girls

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Metallic were an ’80s favourite that’s recently seen quite the comeback. Though the drapey, shoulder-padded gold lamé blouse didn’t quite...

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Brooke Shields

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Before the supermodels surfaced in the late 1980s, Brooke Shields was the decade’s biggest modelling star. We all knew her...

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Editor's Letter

The Thick of Fall

Above: Cerruti 1881, Vogue, November 1980. Photograph by Jean Loup Sieff. November may be the perfect fashion month. Hardcore winter...

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Made Way Up

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It’s Halloween so rounding up a gaggle of extreme makeup images from the 1980s seemed totally appropriate. These aren’t everyday...

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Oscar de la Renta

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The fashion industry lost one of its greats last week with Oscar de la Renta’s death. Looking back at his...

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Kelly Le Brock

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To state the obvious: I have a lot of magazines from the 1980s. On a usual day there are at...

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Why I Love....

’80s Jean Paul Gaultier

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To say I love Jean Paul Gaultier’s work is an understatement. It all began as a teenager in the 1980s....

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Isaac Mizrahi

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Long before he designed for Target and was a fixture on reality TV, Isaac Mizrahi was a bona fide Seventh...

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Last Call For Crop Tops

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While I’m usually all for bringing back fashion trends of the ’80s, crop tops still make me whinge just a...

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