The Face No. 41
Carmel — Oh Perfect Day / Kid Creole / Madonna
September 1983 issue of The Face, No. 41, with Carmel on the cover under the line 'The Blues come up from Manchester', photographed by Steve Tynan. The issue combines music, fashion and film material around Kid Creole, Carmel, Herbie Hancock, Tom Waits, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Madonna and Katharine Hamnett.
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- The Face
- Condition
- Good+ / Very Good−
- Completeness
- Complete — all pages present.
- Date
- September 1983
Catalogue note
September 1983 issue of The Face, No. 41, with Carmel on the cover under the line 'The Blues come up from Manchester', photographed by Steve Tynan. The issue combines music, fashion and film material around Kid Creole, Carmel, Herbie Hancock, Tom Waits, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Madonna and Katharine Hamnett. The contents place it at a particularly fertile point in early-1980s culture: Hancock's electronic crossover period, an early Face feature on Madonna, Sakamoto's international film-and-music profile, and Hamnett's emergence as a politically charged British designer. The supplied rear cover is a graphic black-and-white advertisement/artwork carrying the phrase 'This is the day', adding further period visual evidence to the object.
Why this object matters
Early Madonna coverage, Hancock’s electronic moment, Sakamoto and Hamnett converge in a specific 1983 original issue. Retain outstanding 8.8 status for this documented intersection of music, fashion and international culture.
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Archive Importance: 8.8 / 10.
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