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gifts for the fashionably nostalgic
WITH MAJOR DISTRIBUTORS DROPPING PHYSICAL MEDIA FROM THEIR OFFERINGS AND STREAMERS OFFERING EVER-SHRINKING CATALOGS (JUST TRY FINDING A GOOD FILM OVER 20 YEARS OLD ON NETFLIX OR DISNEY+), A CAREFULLY CURATED COLLECTION OF DVD'S OR VHS VIDEO'S, FAR FROM EVIL ALGORITMS, IS THE STATUS SYMBOL DU MOMENT.
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Maison Martin Margiela - Collection Défilé VHS - SS 2002
Extremely rare VHS tape of the Printemps Été 2002 Spring Summer capsule clip, in the typical Maison Martin Margiela cloth, with title sticker on side. Artifacts of an era when not every song and every catwalk could be found online.
Spotted at Saint-martin bookshop
Retrotech nostalgia just turned from hype du jour into a fullblown longing for a return to the real.
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1988 Sonic Youth Daydream Nation Cassette
03.
2000 American Psycho x JB Promo Business Card Holder
From the first generation iPod to VHS tapes, collecting tangible hardware scores extra status points.
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Raf Simons :The videos 1995 - 1999
This collection of nine video tapes - this is no. 069 in a limited edition of 300 numbered copies - showing Raf Simon's first 9 shows, might well be the most coveted box of VHS tapes on the planet.
Spotted at idea books
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Revox' B77 MKI tape recorder was built from 1977-1980. A real classic and milestone in the audio world.
shop fully refurbished at Revox
‘Tech giants have gutted publishing. Now digital fatigue is giving print a new lease on life,’ says David Miller on Fortune. 'While many thought print media was down and out, it's actually experiencing its own reckoning of sorts.’
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Egoïste N°7
Helmut Newton cover, 1983
When Wisniak was thinking of ways to finance her magazine, she decided that, rather than filling it with fashion and luxury brands’ latest advertising campaigns, she would instead create the advertising for them, using photographers she chose to shoot ‘advertising’ imagery that would appear only in the magazine. It was native advertising avant l’heure, advertorials taken to the level of art. Houses like Hermès, Chanel and Cartier signed up for ‘campaigns’ shot by photographers including Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin and Paolo Roversi, who could bring their visions to advertising freed of its usual commercial strictures.For System magazine, Wisniak selected some of her favourite advertorial images from down the years, and sat down to discuss the birth of Egoïste, panther and camel wrangling, and trying to persuade Mick Jagger to leave the house.
Spotted at Preclothed
‘I just called up Helmut Newton, whom I didn’t know, to ask him to shoot for Egoïste. I had met his wife at the hairdresser’s and got his number.’
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Juergen Teller - Go-Sees
Scalo, 1999
Juergen Teller’s most cult book documenting a year, from May 1998 to May 1999 of casting sessions outside his studio in West London. The mythical, intimate and vulnerable process of a go-see is put under a microscope, revealing raw documentary-style images of models at the start of their career. Amongst the new faces are Debra Shaw (with her dad in the car behind her), Mariacarla Boscono, Adrianna Lima and Devon Aoki.
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a Be Sea - A visual paper
Bryan Moloney and Sharon John, Sebastian Boyle, 1993
‘Vintage Ikea furniture is newly coveted,’ according to Colleen Egan on 1ST DIBS.
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IKEA ‘Vilbert’ Chair
by Verner Panton, 1993
'When times get tough, when income dwindles and interest rates spike, fashion often shakes off its blinkers and realises that people who spend money tend to want to look like they do.'
The iconic SL58 is the most famous furniture design of architect, urban planner and designer Leon Stynen.
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SL58
by Leon Stynen
Together with his assistant Paul de Meyer (1922-2012), he designed a simple, elegant and stackable chair that consists of a performed plywood seat resting on a tubular steel base.
Shop at Leonet Hoang