a good vintage: on course for resort
So many of my favourite editorials come from the late nineties and early 2000s. If I had to pick an era that defined my style, it would be those years, when I started reading fashion magazines, where Liz Tilberis and Kate Betts were as doing really interesting things at US Harper's Bazaar, models like Amber Valleta, Kirsty Hume, Maggie Rizer, Angela Lindvall and Gisele Bundchen were in their heyday. I was drawn to the US glossies (magazines like i-D and The Face and Dazed were not on my radar) - I loved American designers, and I found classic American sportswear to be my cup of tea: easy, simple, luxurious. The magazines were about a shiny, happy life, glamorous but clean-cut. At 13, they seemed the ideal.
I came across some of my favourite editorials from the period recently, and was struck by how modern they still feel. Here's a selection from one of them from 1996, starring the evergreen Linda Evangelista. It features some of my favourite motifs: boats, the sea, cozy knits, bare feet, a carefree ease to the clothes.
Magazine: "On Course for Resort", US Harper's Bazaar November 1996
Photographer: Patrick Demarchelier
Fashion editor: Tonne Goodman
One thing I also love about these images is that the digital retouching was far less extreme then - you can still see the genuine texture of their skin, and everything is not hyper-sharp. They felt real.
I came across some of my favourite editorials from the period recently, and was struck by how modern they still feel. Here's a selection from one of them from 1996, starring the evergreen Linda Evangelista. It features some of my favourite motifs: boats, the sea, cozy knits, bare feet, a carefree ease to the clothes.
Magazine: "On Course for Resort", US Harper's Bazaar November 1996
Photographer: Patrick Demarchelier
Fashion editor: Tonne Goodman
One thing I also love about these images is that the digital retouching was far less extreme then - you can still see the genuine texture of their skin, and everything is not hyper-sharp. They felt real.
Comments
miss sophie: I treasure the few copies I kept, and will never throw away those I clipped out into my scrapbooks. Wish I hadn't torn them up like that now!
Joy: I'm going to share a few more personal favourites over the next few weeks.
I saved my copies of US and Paris Vogue. I have my own archive and enjoy flipping through them from time to time.
Ammu: My proper collection starts around 2006 too! The rest are just clippings in plastic folders.
Anyway, there's this 90's revival in the air and am really enjoying the current reinterpretation!
Aissa: It's probably a bit of both. I think that's what made me so excited to see Phoebe Philo's designs for Celine, and The Row.