TMR-000782Magazine object

i-D No. 372

The Summer! Issue · Precious Lee cover · Summer 2023

Summer 2023

i-D No. 372, The Summer!

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Publication: i-D
Condition: Very Good appearance, ungraded. Light edge/corner handling, mild surface rubbing and small handling marks. Front remains vivid and strongly presented; rear Prada advertisement has modest edge wear. Supplied contents pages appear clean.
Completeness: Assumed complete under standing TMR magazine rule unless owner states otherwise. Front, rear and contents supplied; no page-by-page collation and no insert/supplement status inferred.
Date: Summer 2023

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i-D No. 372, The Summer! Issue, Summer 2023, Precious Lee cover. Photographed by Lacey Lennon on the outskirts of Malibu and styled under fashion director Carlos Nazario, the cover places Lee in a vintage Mickey Mouse top against a sun-baked landscape. The exceptionally substantial issue ranges geographically and culturally from Ipanema, British Summer and Miami to Jorja Smith, Tyla, Nia Archives, KAWS, Vivienne Westwood and global casting, making it a broad snapshot of fashion and youth culture immediately before i-D’s subsequent print hiatus.

Permanent identifierTMR-000782

CollectionMagazines

Publicationi-D

PeoplePrecious Lee Lacey Lennon Carlos Nazario Jorja Smith Tyla Nia Archives KAWS Vivienne Westwood Alasdair McLellan Alastair McKimm Alicia Keys Mario Sorrenti Futura Oliver Hadlee Pearch Harley Weir Tyler Mitchell Zoë Ghertner Laura Jane Coulson

ThemesMagazines Visual Culture Fashion Fashion Photography Magazine Design

Credit / attribution notePrecious Lee — cover subject; Lacey Lennon — cover photographer; Carlos Nazario — fashion director and cover styling, confirmed by i-D’s June 2023 cover editorial. The retained contents photograph was reinspected for this correction: Jorja Smith is photographed by Alasdair McLellan and interviewed by Alicia Keys; KAWS is photographed by Mario Sorrenti and interviewed by Futura; Alastair McKimm supplies fashion for both features. Tyla, Nia Archives and Vivienne Westwood are named feature subjects. Oliver Hadlee Pearch, Harley Weir, Tyler Mitchell, Zoë Ghertner and Laura Jane Coulson contribute photographic stories. These are selected significant issue relationships, not a transcription of every printed contributor or advertisement credit.

Why this object matters

A particularly strong late-era i-D issue with an excellent Precious Lee cover, major photographic contributors and unusually broad documentation of 2023 fashion, music, casting and youth culture. It also has retrospective sequence value because No.372 sits immediately before No.373 and the publication pause that preceded No.374’s 2025 relaunch. However, applying TMR’s stricter later-i-D rule, this specific Precious Lee cover is not itself established as a launch/final/anniversary object or singular project of the kind needed for 9+. The issue earns 8.9 on the strength of its contributors, breadth, material scale and sequence position without inflating it because of the masthead.

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Archive Importance: 8.9 / 10.

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