Favourite Magazine Issues of All Time

[blueorchid]

Well, because I'm tired of opening up the Magazines forum and getting fright after fright with each new terrible magazine release these days, I decided to be the change I want to see in the world. 🌈✌

Question for discussion: What are your favourite all-time magazine issues? What are your favourite all-time editorials? What did you love about the issues? Why did they spark joy for you?

I'm inspired by Vince Aletti's book Issues. Have a look at the Vince Aletti thread, @alwaysademo generously scanned some of the book:

Thread 'Vince Aletti'

Jun 15, 2024

Vince Aletti is a photography critic and writer. He has perhaps one of the largest personal magazine collections in the world. He puts out a great fashion book called "Issues" in 2019, in which Vince curated a selection of 100 issues from as far back as the 1920's til 2019, gave his observant take on the development of photographers and editors & chronicled how photography develops in the specific landscape of fashion magazines in the 20th century.
I'll post scans tomorrow.

img source: vanityfair

• alwaysademo
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[kasper!]

From Testinofan

It's hard to choose but maybe this is my all-time fav issue. Peak time for Carine and her team. No one can reach that high after this.

 

[BalkaniStaCouture]

Vogue Paris No 803 Dec 1999 Jan 2000 Fashion Magazine Special Double Number​

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[JPineapple]

Vogue Paris No 803 Dec 1999 Jan 2000 Fashion Magazine Special Double Number​

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if it's not much to ask, can you please post some snaps of the issue? I'm desperately seeking the contents but I can't find them anywhere

 

[mikel]

I always circle back to the first couple of issues I ever bought, when I was about to turn 18: Pop S/S 2003, Vogue Italia March 2003 and US Vogue March 2003. I can still remember looking at them for the first time. Everything felt so fresh and so new and a completely different world.

 

[BalkaniStaCouture]

if it's not much to ask, can you please post some snaps of the issue? I'm desperately seeking the contents but I can't find them anywhere

It was really crazy to grab my hands on this issue. I finally did it few years ago for a hefty price. I will in few days. Not at home now.

 

[aracic]

if it's not much to ask, can you please post some snaps of the issue? I'm desperately seeking the contents but I can't find them anywhere

I've got it ready to scan at some point... if you'll have the patience

 

[aracic]

I always circle back to the first couple of issues I ever bought, when I was about to turn 18: Pop S/S 2003, Vogue Italia March 2003 and US Vogue March 2003. I can still remember looking at them for the first time. Everything felt so fresh and so new and a completely different world.

Same! The issues I first bought still hold very special meaning for me and amongst them are Meisel's Oil Spill and Super Mods Go To Rehab issues, along with Klein's couture supplement in black and white with models in laced veils, I think it was 2007 too? God, I loved those. Roversi's Fall 2011 couture was among those I first bought and I've loved it since. I think it was Frida on the cover...