The Face No. 100
Killer 100th Issue — From Safe Sex to Acid House / 100 Inventions of the 80s / Alex Arts
Milestone 100th issue of The Face, built as a self-reflexive survey of both the magazine and the decade it had helped document. Cover model Alex Arts is photographed by Anthony Gordon at a newsstand surrounded by earlier Face covers.
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- The Face
- Condition
- Good+ to Very Good−
- Completeness
- Complete — all pages present, under the standing completeness rule for the owner's original-run 1980s copies of The Face. The documented 100th-issue foldout/front-cover extension has not been photographed in its fully unfolded state.
- Date
- September 1988
Catalogue note
Milestone 100th issue of The Face, built as a self-reflexive survey of both the magazine and the decade it had helped document. Cover model Alex Arts is photographed by Anthony Gordon at a newsstand surrounded by earlier Face covers. Major features include From Safe Sex to Acid House, 100 Inventions of the 80s, an Atlas of World Music, a chronology of Eighties nightclubbing, Nick Kent on Prince, Julie Burchill on Margaret Thatcher, Michael Jackson, and fashion retrospective material. The issue functions simultaneously as a contemporary late-1980s object and as the magazine's own first major retrospective archive.
Why this object matters
The nightclub chronology and safe-sex/acid-house survey make the hundredth issue a substantial contemporary self-archive rather than merely a numbered celebration. Retain Gold at 9.1, keeping the not-fully-photographed foldout qualification visible.
Evidence limits: No new physical inspection or collation was performed. Copy-specific conclusions remain limited to the retained catalogue and accession evidence.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9.1 / 10 · Gold Star.
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