When I was growing up, I had a couple of very teenage uncles from London who had posters all over their rooms....not only of rock stars and British pop stars, the closet doors were covered with all these amazing hot hot hot Cosmopolitan covers featuring hot mostly-iconic models and imagery. I miss those old Cosmo covers, or the way magazines used to have gloriously glamorous covers that were all about style....not appeasing advertisers and selling MORE MORE MORE. I think they had so much style and sexiness to them. There are hardly any female-targeted publications with covers like these anymore. (Well, not mainstream publications like Cosmo.)
Scavullo shot most or all of these...I think you can easily see a style pattern, a vision from a visionary, when you scroll through them all. They're chic, sexy, subtle, intense. I think even at a tiny age, I knew these covers were sexy and strong.
Sometime in the 90s, everything changed. There was no more iconic
Helen Gurley Brown running the show (she wrote
Sex and the Single Girl, by the way and, for me, really spelled out what feminism was...again, for me....which meant you can really own your femininity and still be strong and independent). And there was no more Scavullo shooting the covers. And replacing gorgeous interesting models were/are the lackluster, boring, cereal-box celebrities. Ick. I'll take these old covers over any of the new ones ANYTIME and EVERY TIME. If you print these all out and pin them up side-by-side on a wall, you'll see how amazing the entire body of work is. I'll do a proper post on Scavullo and his women in the future. But I've been wanting to do this Cosmo vintage cover post for eons because these were some of my biggest fashion influences growing up. Just so so gorgeous.
PS I am writing this August 2012...I am going to definitely do a Gia post soon. Just look at her covers. I just think there was something really different going on then with the models. Her face especially says so much is going on in her head. I think this era of supermodels was really magical. I think it's so strange how they're all so 12-year-old looking now.♡
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| CHRISTIE BRINKLEY 1978 |
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| (I'M PRETTY SURE THIS IS) GIA 1980 |
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| ANOTHER GIA COVER...THE FAMOUS ONE FROM 1982 WHERE SHE'S HIDING HER TRACK MARKS (FROM DRUGS). |
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| ANOTHER CHRISTIE BRINKLEY COVER FROM 1983 |
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| GORGEOUS KIM ALEXIS 1987 |
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| THAT LOOKS LIKE RENEE RUSSO 1978 |
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| THE JANICE DICKENSON 1978 |
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| KELLY LEBROCK 1981 |
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| CAROL ALT 1980 |
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| STEPHANIE SEYMOUR 1994...STILL LOOKS HOT IN THE EARLY 90'S. |
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| CINDY CRAWFORD 1991 (VERY LIKE A VIRGIN OUTFIT) |
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| BROOKE SHIELDS 1981 GORGEOUS. |
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| PAULINA PORIZCOVA 1987 |
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| YASMIN LE BON (BEFORE SHE WAS MARRIED TO SIMON) 1990. LOVE HER. |
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| CHRISTY TURLINGTON 1987 (IN A VERY STEPHEN SPROUSE LOOKING DRESS) |
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| JILL GOODACRE (ONE OF MY FAVE MODELS WHEN I WAS A KID) 1986. I ACTUALLY REMEMBER THIS COVER. |
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I DON'T KNOW THE MODEL, BUT THE COVER IS SO PRETTY. AND SEXY. 1979
(SO A FEW COMMENTS ARE BELOW FROM SOME READERS AND THEY SAY THEY THINK THIS MODEL TO ALSO BE JANICE DICKENSON. I CANT REALLY TELL. IF IT IS HER, AND SEEMS THAT IT IS, THEN IT'S A GREAT COVER...I LOVE IT!) |
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| PAULINA PORIZKOVA FOLD-OUT COVER. CAN'T SEE THE DATE. SOMETIME IN THE 80'S. |
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| ANOTHER JILL GOODACRE COVER. 1988 |
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| ANOTHER STUNNING GIA COVER FROM 1979. AGAIN, INSIDE ARM TRACKS COVERED. |
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| ANOTHER PAULINA PORIZKOVA GORGEOUS COVER 1988 |
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| NAOMI SIMS...PROBABLY THE FIRST OFFICIAL BLACK SUPER MODEL 1975 |
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| AND EQUALLY GORGEOUS BEVERLY JOHNSON COVER 1976 (I THINK IT SAYS THAT) |
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more friday fancy ♥ dolce & gabbana's la dolce vita
images from www.modelinia.com, www.jhu.edu, www.judgmentofparis.com ( a great site), thegossipwrapup.com, inoubliablemodelarmy.blogspot.com, http://ladichic.blogspot.com
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