Perhaps only second to taffeta, lace was one of the top fabrics in the 1980s. All the big designers used...
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Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of November 2014
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Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of November 2014
160 images were posted to the periodicult.tumblr.com site last month. We gathered a list of the most liked and reblogged:...
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...
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...
Flashback Friday: ’80s Celebrity Edition
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Flashback Friday: ’80s Celebrity Edition
What’s fun? Old pictures of celebrities from the 1980s, that’s what. While some of these then-fresh faces have fared better...
Isabella Rosselllini
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Isabella Rosselllini
I caught an episode of The Blacklist that my daughter was watching earlier in the year and was shocked to...
Vogue, September 1984
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Vogue, September 1984
September 1984 was decades before the movie, The September Issue, was released, but even back then the teenage me wouldn’t...
Pulling Faces
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Pulling Faces
Going through so many fashion images every week, it’s easy to get a bit cynical seeing page after page of...
Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of May 2014
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Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of May 2014
176 images were posted to the periodicult.tumblr.com site last month. We gathered a list of the most liked and reblogged....
’80s Fashion Illustration
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’80s Fashion Illustration
There’s no question that photography dominated the pages of fashion magazines throughout the 1980s. Illustration was largely seen as a...