The Face No. 85
Vivienne Westwood Mini-Crini by Carrie Branovan · Ellen Barkin / Willem Dafoe / Nik Cohn
The Face No. 85, May 1987, is anchored by a Vivienne Westwood fashion cover photographed by Carrie Branovan and a substantial retrospective marking '15 years on fashion's frontline'.
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- The Face
- Condition
- Good+ / Very Good− appearance from supplied front-cover, rear-cover and interior-spread photographs — ungraded magazine.
- Completeness
- Magazine treated as complete under the owner's standing TMR magazine rule unless otherwise stated. Supplied photographs show front cover, rear cover and the Willem Dafoe feature spread; no page-by-page physical collation was performed and no separate issued supplement or free gift is established from the available evidence.
- Date
- May 1987
Catalogue note
The Face No. 85, May 1987, is anchored by a Vivienne Westwood fashion cover photographed by Carrie Branovan and a substantial retrospective marking '15 years on fashion's frontline'. The cover explicitly foregrounds Westwood's Mini-Crini, one of the designer's defining mid-1980s silhouettes, while the issue ranges across film, music, writing, fashion and design through Ellen Barkin, Willem Dafoe, Nik Cohn, Jazzy Joyce & Sweet Tee, Workers for Freedom and Miami Art Deco. The issue is therefore a particularly strong example of The Face operating as a bridge between fashion history and the wider visual/popular culture of late-1980s Britain.
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Archive Importance: 9.1 / 10 · Gold Star.
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