Dazed / Dazed & Confused Vol. 2 · Issue 5
Frankie Rayder — Look This Way / The Rapture vs Shynola / Gwendoline Riley
September 2003 issue fronted by Frankie Rayder under the diagonal “Look This Way” fashion cover line. Its editorial mix captures Dazed at a particularly fertile early-2000s intersection of fashion, literature, music and moving-image culture: The Rapture meet video collective Shynola at the moment dance-punk was breaking through internationally; novelist Gwendoline Riley contributes a short-story feature; Tilda Swinton is named on the cover; and specialist issue indexing records an early Amy Winehouse appearance.
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- Dazed / Dazed & Confused
- Condition
- Good+ / Very Good− — structurally sound, with visible handling and surface wear to the dark glossy covers.
- Completeness
- Complete — all pages/components assumed present under the standing TMR accession rule; no missing issued component has been reported.
- Date
- September 2003
Catalogue note
September 2003 issue fronted by Frankie Rayder under the diagonal “Look This Way” fashion cover line. Its editorial mix captures Dazed at a particularly fertile early-2000s intersection of fashion, literature, music and moving-image culture: The Rapture meet video collective Shynola at the moment dance-punk was breaking through internationally; novelist Gwendoline Riley contributes a short-story feature; Tilda Swinton is named on the cover; and specialist issue indexing records an early Amy Winehouse appearance. Fashion credits include Cathy Edwards, Shona Heath and Nicola Formichetti, making the issue a strong record of Dazed’s collaborative image-making culture as well as its music and literary coverage.
Why this object matters
The Rapture/Shynola exchange and Gwendoline Riley contribution make the issue a substantive meeting of moving image, dance-punk and literature. Early Winehouse indexing adds context without being treated as a verified debut. Increase to 8.8.
Evidence limits: Complete — all pages/components assumed present under the standing TMR accession rule; no missing issued component has been reported.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 8.8 / 10.
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