In London at the start of the 1980s, three new
style magazines emerged to define an era. It was a time
of change: after Punk, before the digital age, and at
the dawn of a hedonistic club scene that saw the birth
of the New Romantics. On the pages of 'BLITZ', 'The
Face' and 'i-D', a new breed of young iconoclasts hoped
to inspire revolution. As 'BLITZ' magazine's fashion
editor from 1982-87, Iain R. Webb was at the centre of
this world. His images manipulated fashion to explore
ideas of transformation, beauty, glamour and sex. The
magazine's arresting, subversive fashion pages, and its
profiles of disparate designers and creative types, let
the imagination run free. Lavishly presented here are
over 100 'BLITZ' fashion stories, with previously-unseen
archive content, original images and tear-sheets. A
separate section features original BLITZ interviews with
the key designers, and there is also a vast amount of
completely new material: Iain R. Webb has gathered the
memories of those involved into a gripping oral history
of an under-documented time. The cast of characters and
contributors includes Leigh Bowery, Amanda Cazalet, Boy
George, Princess Julia, Nick Knight, David LaChapelle,
Paul Morley and Anna Piaggi. Featured designers include
Bodymap, Judy Blame, Dean Bright, Comme Des Garcons,
Jasper Conran, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier,
Katharine Hamnett, Hermes, Pam Hogg, Marc Jacobs,
Stephen Jones, Calvin Klein, Andrew Logan, Issey Miyake,
Franco Moschino, Rifat Ozbek, Antony Price, Vivienne
Westwood, and many, many more.
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