//Opening spread of my interview with Peter York, Arena Homme + Winter/Spring 2020. Portrait: David Sims//

//From the Them fashion story. Photography: Julien Martinez Leclerc; fashion: Tom Guinness//

The jury is out on this autumn’s relaunch of the print edition of venerated British style magazine The Face; as I suggested here it’s going to take more than one splashy issue to assess whether the proposition has legs as we enter the 2020s (next May will mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of The Face by Nick Logan).

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Tags: Arena Homme +, Ashley Heath, Berluti, Bottega Veneta, Brockhampton, David Sims, Fantastic Man, George MacKay, Gert Jonkers, Harpers & Queen, Joe Cole, Jop van Bennekom, Julien Martinez Leclerc, Kris Van Assche, Lawrence, Mark Leckey, neville Brody, New Order, Nick Logan, Peter York, Prada, Rex Orange County, Stephen Morris, The Face, Tom Guinness

//A4 letterhead, Barney Bubbles, 1978. No reproduction without permission//

This company letterhead was designed by the late graphics master Barney Bubbles for music entrepreneur Jake Riviera during the latter’s tenure at 60 Parker Street in London’s Covent Garden in the late 70s.

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Tags: Clive Langer, Harpers & Queen, Jake Riviera, malcolm Garrett, Nick Lowe, Peter York, Stiff Records

The launch of SHOWStudio’s new series PRINT features an interview with me by editor Lou Stoppard about my magazine archive.

There is also a section dedicated to images from the archive, including front covers, spreads and ads.

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Tags: After Dark, Andy Warhol's Interview, Bay Garnett, Ben Is Dead, Grand Royal, Harpers & Queen, Lou Stoppard, Nova, Perry Ogden, Peter York, Showstudio, Tory Turk

//Magazines from my archive (clockwise from top left): Creem, August 1974; Grand Royal #3, 1995; Club International, August 1973; Harpers & Queen, October 1976//

//After Dark, September 1974; Ben Is Dead #26, 1996//

I’m one of the contributors to Print, writer Lou Stoppard’s forthcoming celebration of the great fashion and music magazines of the past and present.

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Tags: After Dark, Bay Garnett, Ben Is Dead, Cheap Date, Club International, Creem, Deluxe, Grand Royal, Harpers & Queen, Honey, Jefferson Hack, Kira Jolliffe, Lipstick, Lou Stoppard, Nick Knight, NME, Nova, Perry Ogden, Rags, Ritz, Showstudio, The Hyman Archive, The Mushpit, Tory Turk, Twen, West One

//Outside 430 King's Road (from left) summer 1971: Unknown, assistant Lisa Petersen, manager Roly Poltock, designer Diana Crawshaw and founder Trevor Myles. Photograph: Julian Allason.//

Harpers & Queen ran this photograph of the short-lived but significant World’s End boutique Paradise Garage in the Shopping Bazaar section of the September 1971 issue.

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Tags: Chris Snow, Diana Crawshaw, Electric Colour Company, Harpers & Queen, Julian Allason, Lisa Petersen, Paradise Garage, Patrick Casey, Roly Poltock, Trevor myles, Vivienne Westwood, Worlds End

//Showing Price The Look Of London map.//

Conducting the in conversation with Antony Price at London’s Fashion + Textile Museum earlier this week was fun.

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Tags: Andrew Logan, Antony Price, Baillie Walsh, Cadbury Flake, Fashion & Textile Museum, Harpers & Queen, Keith Wainwright, Peter York, Stirling Cooper

As explored in In Their Own Write, the most important creative in the development of British print media in the latter half of the 20th Century was Nick Logan. Arguably his greatest contribution was via the launch of The Face in 1980.

This year-end review – “123 things to remember 1980 by” – was featured in issue 9, published 30 years ago.

Adopting the technique applied at Harpers & Queen by the magazine’s poster boy Peter York – who appears in this issue in three separate articles due to the recent publication of his tone-setting Style Wars – The 1980 Face Show inaugurated the lifestyle list-culture which dominates global media to this day.

It’s as fascinating for who it promulgated – who can remember the name of Bad Manners’ lead singer now? – as for that which it found hard to define.

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Tags: 1980, Harpers & Queen, Keith Joseph, New Romantics, Nick Logan, Peter York, Robert Elms, The Face