The Face No. 43
New Life in Europe — 70 Great Ideas from Europe
November 1983 issue of The Face, No. 43, presented as the 'New Life in Europe!' special and built around '70 Great Ideas from Europe Pt 1'.
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- The Face
- Condition
- Very Good
- Completeness
- Complete — all pages present.
- Date
- November 1983
Catalogue note
November 1983 issue of The Face, No. 43, presented as the 'New Life in Europe!' special and built around '70 Great Ideas from Europe Pt 1'. The issue combines European cultural reportage with music, fashion and youth-culture material, including Boy George ('A Boy's Europe'), Glenn Gregory / Heaven 17, Paul McGann, Level 42, a Suggs and Scarlet style feature, and extended European material. The cover photograph is credited to Margit Marshall. The supplied contents spread and surviving rear advertisement add useful evidence of The Face's editorial, design and commercial environment at a moment when the magazine was deliberately looking beyond Britain toward a shared European youth culture.
Why this object matters
The deliberately organised European ideas special provides substantial transnational youth-culture reportage. Its original cover, contents and commercial context make it an outstanding thematic document, without needing a claim that it inaugurated that exchange.
Evidence limits: No new physical inspection or collation was performed. Copy-specific conclusions remain limited to the retained catalogue and accession evidence.
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Archive Importance: 8.8 / 10.
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