The Eighties wasn’t only about Madonna in her lace gloves and bubble perm you know – it was a hugely creative era for all kinds of fashion. One particular niche of the market was the now defunct style magazine called BLITZ – apparently a coincidence, rather than an affiliate of the high-fashion nightclub of the same name, where milliner Stephen Jones and designer John Galliano first met and interacted beneath the disco ball.
Superstylist, Editor in Chief of LOVE Magazine and Marc Jacobs (who also featured very early in his career in BLITZ) right hand woman, Katie Grand, was a great fan of BLITZ Magazine. So much so, that when its former fashion editor turned author and all round fashion and cultural legend, Iain R Webb, decided to make a book about the style bible, Grand wrote the foreword, saying; ‘I always wanted to be a stylist because I collected BLITZ, and wanted to grow up and be [Iain R Webb].
‘In the early 1980s magazines were hugely important and influential, so one bought everything. It was exciting to have different points of view. For me, BLITZ was always the most glamorous of the three, at that point. i-D was always apologetic in covering fashion – the people had to be real – and the early editions of The Face magazine were all about music types in fashion. BLITZ, as I recall, was about fashion and clubs. Wasn’t it named after the club? I always liked the end of year round-ups in BLITZ, where you were fashionable if you had stripey tights, a Westwood mini crini, a bleached crop, braces, Dr. Martens ... ‘
Wow wow wow! If you like subculture, and retro fashion imagery, we strongly recommend you buy this brilliant book, available from Waterstones for £35 or even get down to the ICA in London from Friday 17th May till Sunday 19th for a series of special events . . . which you can find out more about by clicking through to ica.org.uk
And don't forget to wear your stripey tights and bottle-top boots if you go.
Via: Flashback Friday: Back to the Eighties with Blitz Magazine
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