I’m the first one the defend ’80s fashion, to write about all the good stuff. But that doesn’t mean I’m...
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Lacy Ladies
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Lacy Ladies
Perhaps only second to taffeta, lace was one of the top fabrics in the 1980s. All the big designers used...
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...
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...
Made Way Up
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Made Way Up
It’s Halloween so rounding up a gaggle of extreme makeup images from the 1980s seemed totally appropriate. These aren’t everyday...
Oscar de la Renta
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Oscar de la Renta
The fashion industry lost one of its greats last week with Oscar de la Renta’s death. Looking back at his...
’80s Annual a Treasure Trove of Images
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’80s Annual a Treasure Trove of Images
Photographis 85: The International Annual of Advertising and Editorial Photography Edited by Walter Herdeg Graphis Press, 220 pages, 1985 If...
Kelly Le Brock
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Kelly Le Brock
To state the obvious: I have a lot of magazines from the 1980s. On a usual day there are at...
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:...
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...