FASHION glossies fill out the newsstands these days, beckoning to passer-bys with their beautiful, polished covers and their promises of new desire between hundreds of pages of equally shiny prints.
As valuable pieces of artwork in themselves – 80-year-old copies of publications like Vogue sit preciously between thick leather-bound covers in London’s renowned British Library – fashion magazines speak to us about a side of fashion that is not just about consumerism and money, but about its relevance as art and social commentary.