Student 1969 + i-D 1991: How Anna Wintour and Edward Enninful started their journeys to the top

 

Anna “Winter” modelled for her own fashion spread for the September 1969 issue of Student. Photography: Stephen Bobroff.
Edward Enninfuo contributed styling and casting to this streetwear shoot which appeared in i-D February 1991. Photography: Craig McDean. Story: Beth Summers.

Two decades apart, the editors of the American and British editions of Condé Nast’s Vogue began their respective careers with modest contributions to prominent independent youth culture publications of their day.

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In search of the entirely unexpected: Barney Bubbles among Print magazine’s Unsung Heroes Of Design

 

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//From Print’s 75th anniversary issue, illustrations (clockwise from top left): A section of Bubbles’ design for the sleeve of 1979 LP Armed Forces lines up with work by Ruth Ansel, Andrew Loomis, Ladislaw Sutnar, Cipe Pineles and Paul Bacon//

For its 75th anniversary issue, US visual culture publication Print has selected Barney Bubbles as one of six “unsung heroes of design”.

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From The Vaults: Patti Smith, Andy Warhol’s Interview, October 1973

As a companion to today’s post on the Horses cover, here’s another Patti Smith item from the archive: a feature by Penny Green from the October 1973 issue of Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine.

Coinciding with the publication of Smith’s poetry book Witt, the photographs for the Interview piece were taken by Barbara Walz (who later produced The Fashion Makers with Bernadine Morris).

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