i-D No. 291
The To Die For Issue — Jourdan Dunn by Emma Summerton
i-D No. 291, September 2008, The To Die For Issue, featuring Jourdan Dunn photographed by Emma Summerton under fashion director Edward Enninful.
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- i-D
- Condition
- Very Good
- Completeness
- Main magazine treated as complete under the standing TMR magazine rule; front and rear covers are present in the supplied evidence. Full page-by-page collation has not been performed.
- Date
- September 2008
Catalogue note
i-D No. 291, September 2008, The To Die For Issue, featuring Jourdan Dunn photographed by Emma Summerton under fashion director Edward Enninful. This is Dunn's first i-D cover: she later told i-D that she had its cover line, “You owe it to yourself. Set the world on fire,” tattooed on her arm. The issue appeared in Dunn's breakthrough 2008, when she became the first Black model in more than a decade to walk Prada, appeared in Vogue Italia's landmark Black Issue and was named Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards. The rear preserves a full-page Prada advertisement.
Why this object matters
Dunn’s first i-D cover has documented personal and representation-history significance in her 2008 breakthrough. The Summerton/Enninful original retains Gold at 9.2, with other milestones contextualised rather than treated as achievements caused by this issue.
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Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9.2 / 10 · Gold Star.
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- Terry JonesCreative directionHigh-confidence attribution
Attributed from documented creative-director tenure; issue masthead not yet checked. i-D: creative-director succession, 2019
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