Hollywood’s Golden Girl
Subject / model: Molly Ringwald
TMR-000538Magazine object
The Face Vol. 2 No. 4
January 1989 · Molly Ringwald by Phillip Dixon · early De La Soul / S'Express / Fine Young Cannibals
January 1989★ Gold Star object
January 1989 issue of The Face, Volume 2 No. 4, with Molly Ringwald photographed by Phillip Dixon. Beyond the cover, the issue is a strong late-1980s cultural cross-section: an early De La Soul feature appears before the March 1989 release of 3 Feet High and Rising; S'Express is covered shortly after its 1988 UK number-one breakthrough; Fine Young Cannibals are profiled immediately before The Raw and the Cooked became a UK number-one album; and the issue also includes Jean Baudrillard, Andrew Vachss and a Liverpool 'retro casual' feature.
Read the catalogue note →- Publication
- The Face
- Condition
- Very Good appearance from supplied views.
- Completeness
- Main magazine appears intact from the supplied cover, rear-cover and contents-page views, but has not been page-by-page collated. No separately issued gift or supplement has been established from the evidence reviewed.
- Date
- January 1989
Object record
Catalogue note
January 1989 issue of The Face, Volume 2 No. 4, with Molly Ringwald photographed by Phillip Dixon. Beyond the cover, the issue is a strong late-1980s cultural cross-section: an early De La Soul feature appears before the March 1989 release of 3 Feet High and Rising; S'Express is covered shortly after its 1988 UK number-one breakthrough; Fine Young Cannibals are profiled immediately before The Raw and the Cooked became a UK number-one album; and the issue also includes Jean Baudrillard, Andrew Vachss and a Liverpool 'retro casual' feature.
Why this object matters
Pre-debut-album De La Soul, S’Express and Liverpool casual-style reporting create a specific original account of emerging music and youth identities. Award Gold at 9.0 for this concentrated context rather than an unverified first appearance.
Evidence limits: Main magazine appears intact from the supplied cover, rear-cover and contents-page views, but has not been page-by-page collated. No separately issued gift or supplement has been established from the evidence reviewed.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9 / 10 · Gold Star.
This is a curatorial judgement, not a measurement accurate to one tenth or a market valuation. Read the explanation and its evidence limits together.
How Archive Importance is assessed →Inside this issue
10 selected entries checked against the photographed contents and credits. This is a partial index; page numbers are printed references, not a physical collation.
View the source photograph ↗ · Reviewed 2026-09-11
S’Xpress Delivery
Popeye
Photography: Stéphane Sednaoui · Styling: Paul Frecker
Clubs
Andrew Vachss
Subject / model: Andrew Vachss
The Rise of the Retro-Casual
Part Human, Part Hypothesis
Subject / model: Jean Baudrillard
De La Soul
Les Yeux Dangereux
Photography: Michel Haddi · Styling: Venetia Scott
Cover photograph
Photography: Phillip Dixon
The cover caption credits Dixon; this credit does not extend to the interior fashion stories.
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- One issue, several photographic voices — What contents pages reveal when a cover credit is only the beginning.
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Recorded contributions · 3
- Molly RingwaldSubject / modelSource verified
Hollywood’s Golden Girl (p. 12). Contents / masthead page — The Face Vol. 2 No. 4
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Part Human, Part Hypothesis (p. 60). Contents / masthead page — The Face Vol. 2 No. 4
Find other objects with this contribution → - Phillip DixonPhotographySource verified
Cover photograph. The cover caption credits Dixon; this credit does not extend to the interior fashion stories. Contents / masthead page — The Face Vol. 2 No. 4
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