Tuesday 1 June 2010

Remembering The Face

I'm back in Paris today. Which means I have changed sun, swimming pools and gardens for rain, more rain and... yet more rain. Thinking of paradise lost, I found myself reminiscing about The Face magazine. As a teenager, and once I passed my inevitable Vogue America phase, I grew up with Dazed, I-D and The Face. The first two are the only magazines I buy every single month (apart from The World of Interiors, the edgy Condé Nast design and architecture magazine, to which I'm also totally addicted), and I would still be just as faithful to The Face if it hadn't stopped being published back in 2004. Everything has been said about the magazine: it was modern, it was edgy, it was pop, it was really innovative in its shape and its content. I would like to do something as unique as this... Until then I'll just study and decipher every single Face cover.










5 comments:

  1. i didnt even know about it. but i love many of these covers. esp that first.
    hope youre having a wonderful week

    xx ediot
    www.ediot.org

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  2. wow, i never saw that magazine (shame on me) but it's really edgy as you said* so cool!

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  3. I love your tribute to The Face...I've actually never seen this magazine, but it looks amazing! I just saw your 'film obsession of the moment' and had to say i love it too! It's one I can watch over and over again =)

    Hope all is well with you!! Happy June!

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  4. I have a number of those late 1990s issues, having become a subscriber from that time until near the very end

    It came to mean rather a great deal to me; it connected me to cultures and subcultures that have become a basal element of my off-the-wall knowledge, publicised a great many interesting fancies and the writing was usually suffused with a trenchant attitude

    Nothing has successfully taken its place since

    Good post,

    B

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  5. J'aimerais vraiment en retrouver, je suis juste un peu trop jeune pour l'avoir vécu... là je viens de m'acheter des caisses de magazines aux puces, beaucoup des années 90 / début 2000 (les premiers anOther entre autre, et puis i-D et des beaux Vogue Italia...) mais c'est vrai que The Face y manquait... scans anyone? ;D
    Merci pour ces couvertures en tout cas, elles m'ont mis de bonne humeur !

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Thanks for your lovely comments.