i-D No. 337
The 35th Birthday Issue · Summer 2015 · Jourdan Dunn by Alasdair McLellan · issue-specific 35th-birthday promotional band present
i-D No. 337 is the magazine’s 35th Birthday Issue, Summer 2015, here preserved in the Jourdan Dunn cover variant photographed by Alasdair McLellan. i-D produced 18 model covers for the anniversary, with McLellan photographing the entire issue as a concentrated portrait of the magazine’s fashion, music, art and film world. This copy also retains an issue-specific black “35th birthday special edition” promotional band/strip.
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- Condition
- Very Good+ appearance, ungraded.
- Completeness
- Magazine appears complete from the supplied views; no page-by-page collation has been performed. A loose i-D-branded 35th Birthday Special Edition promotional band/strip is present with the copy.
- Date
- Summer 2015
Catalogue note
i-D No. 337 is the magazine’s 35th Birthday Issue, Summer 2015, here preserved in the Jourdan Dunn cover variant photographed by Alasdair McLellan. i-D produced 18 model covers for the anniversary, with McLellan photographing the entire issue as a concentrated portrait of the magazine’s fashion, music, art and film world. This copy also retains an issue-specific black “35th birthday special edition” promotional band/strip. The issue functions as an institutional self-portrait of i-D at thirty-five and as a material record of the multi-cover, collector-oriented publishing strategies of its mid-2010s period.
Why this object matters
McLellan's issue-wide photographic authorship and surviving birthday band preserve a substantial editorial and material package. This is outstanding self-documentation, calibrated with the guest-edited Deyn project and other complete anniversary packages. Neither the eighteen-cover programme nor the thirty-fifth birthday alone warrants Gold for the held Dunn variant.
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: 8.9 / 10.
This is a curatorial judgement, not a measurement accurate to one tenth or a market valuation. Read the explanation and its evidence limits together.
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