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In the style of 'Rita miller' That's ma name. I'm a tiny tiny acorn on instagram as yet but I'll do my best !

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2bigponysteps has been 1bigmassivefail on tumblr lately . For anyone that ever remembers me ….. Ive been somewhat a hermit. Ive been burrowed away deep in my magazine collection and I’m now on Instagram. My name is magazinecanteen. ❤️ I’ve spent a long time cataloging my collection and I’m building a web store. X

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Tony Ward. Mondo Uomo magazine.... ages ago!

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A throwback to the days when I’d watch KIKA over and over. Rossy de Palma for garage magazine issue 2. I still do t know whether the magazine should be pronounced garage or garage.

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The bastard night where I'm moving shelves again of magazines that I never read, across wonky floorboards just to keep warm! Realising I could have bought a car or a holiday with the cash instead.

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Hustler White

Bruce LaBruce

1996

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Bloody hell. Wayne Hemingway. Back in my unemployment days in the early 90′s I used to love Wayne coming on to the Big Breakfast Tv show talking about fashion and trends. He was always such a nice guy. Then much later, having the same tastes as me in vintage home designs. He’s pretty lovely right? 

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Yesterday I finally became acquainted with the name Melvin Sokolsky. Day by day I learn something new, and I had never heard of this guy before. Probably due to the sheer amount of vogue magazines I have and so few vintage Bazaar magazines. Watching the Vogue 100 teaser video recently, I am heading off soon to visit the Exhibition more locally to me in Manchester. Appetite whetted by the sheer amount of amazing images that have been produced for the magazine world. But that is just Vogue. Forgetting that just one more magazine title would have just as much an incredible back catalogue of images, and this is where Melvin Sokolsky worked. For harpers bazaar. 

I’ll be tracking down this issue for my collection for certain. A futuristic bubble containing a model suspended above various locations across Paris. So beautiful. And then, reading what inspired the bubble idea, I’ve purchased the most insane poster from a painting 500 years ago that I can’t wait to see in real life. ‘The garden of earthly delights’

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I just can’t cope with how 20 years has past so fast. Well, not so much fast, as when I think of what I was doing, where I was working, travelling, who I was seeing, where I was living etc it seems ages and ages ago. But on the other hand, things like music, films and magazines seem still so recent. And I often think how dated they might look to my cool niece etc. 

So, more than 20 years since Kurt Cobain died. so many albums that are now 20 years old, I struggle with the concept. For example its like in 1985 listening to music from 1960?!!    Almost 25 years since I was leaning on the tree opposite the Colosseum imagining I was River Phoenix from my own private Idaho. And every day walking to the video shop waiting for them to sell their copy of the VHS rental copy as surely no-one on that estate ever rented it!

Recently, I have not been working too well, as I have been watching far too many Pj Harvey music videos and interviews. And then into the evenings, wine or beer in hand. How can one person have done so many unbelievably amazing songs, videos, and live performances? I was thinking that there was so much crap taught at my school that a day of showing kids a PJ evolution day from the past 20 years would surely be a great and inspirational thing? But then I am biased. I completely love her. 

3 times I ‘rented’ the rid of me CD from the library back in the day, intrigued as I was. Not convinced back then  It was stories from the city album that got me hooked on my weekly night time drives to Leeds in 2000. And now she’s on pretty much every day at some point. 

This issue. I-D magazine from 21 years ago. Erm, I now Id is all about ‘youth’ but surely PJ could have warranted at least one more Id cover in the past 2 decades? And then to the left... Lily McMenamy from a 2013 issue. 

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Can not find anything about this magazine, but I keep seening adverts for it in late 80s mags. Paris Passions. Would not mind getting my hands on some issues. But its like it did not even exist. 

Cover of Beatrice Dalle by Ellen von Unwerth. Oui. 

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I recently bought a small pile of American DETAILS Magazines. 

I first bought an old details magazine in the 90s with brad pitt cover, and then a few more in the 2000s. And recently some new ones. Its changed so much over the years, and sadly these days its a litle like a thin free magazine, but not!

But I had never had any 80s versions.....

I watched a documentary on the photographer Bill Cunningham a while back which was fantastic. What an absolutely adorable guy. His apartment in NYC was crammed full of photographs, books and magazines and I spotted a pile of Old Details from when he used to work for them. And i thought..... might get me some of them. 

Looking through them this evening, the funniest but is not the editorials, but the smaller pictures ofpeople at parties and stuff. Found here, leigh bowery, amanda lepore and ru paul!

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OK, So ive been drawn in by Celebrity big brother. Ive been watching it in a few shifts having recorded the series the past week or so. Mainly because I am a little bit obsessed with the James Hill and Austin Bromance. I kind of really want them to get together. Or me and james. Or something! 

And then last night....It was easy to hate Austin for his absolutely horrible attack on Janice dickinson. And then I felt proper sorry for him when he cried in the diary room. Mainly because I could completely relate to him and his ‘crap family’ issues. And his coveting of the ‘perfect’ family. 

I couldnt understand how Janice took it so well, but wondered if its cos a lot of it is true. Was she busted? She has been meddling. She comes out with some words of wisdom on occasion, and a lot of crap the rest of the time. The upsetting thing is she reminds me of one of my best friends who I lost touch with a few years ago and think about all the time. Full of drama. 

Today I am scrolling through some huge old issues of Italian vogue. Here is Janice 30 years ago for a ‘lips’ advert. Figures. 

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One of my favourite things in magazines is REAL people inside their houses. Not like Elle Deco where they move the same poncy expensive item all around the house so that you see it in every picture. But, real and messy houses of interesting people. There was a magazine a while back called BUCK who did these features. You get a look into peoples lives and understand their tastes and things. 

And then there are these ones. Bieng a massive magazine collector, I always stop and study these kind of images and pick out magazines I recognise. 

There are plenty of Tetu...( which this image is from ) I can see quite a lot of the Face, the first issue of POP, maybe some Dazed. 

And then I think, I wonder where they bought them.... and I wonder if they still have them or if they are long gone and thrown away. 

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Bin Bag Beth. 

Fantastic picture from Tetu magazine. 

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Ellen Page. 

Dazed and Confused magazine. I like Ellen Page. That is all. 

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Ohh. I'm unsure if I've waffle don a bout Arab strap before. But. I'm laying on my floor having a pretty terrific night. Eating chicken. Drinking wine. Cuddling the dog. And listening to an album by 'the knife'which has been on repeat all day. So. As I'm on the floor I've pulled out some old issues of the face. And here's Helena Christensen interviewing Arab strap. I say this a lot. But how can this be 18 years ago? The face magazine. I remember not being convinced that Helena loved them as much as I!but the interview is pretty charming. Im being mean. She liked them. I saw one of the first Arab strap gigs. Small and cosy, and not even realising they were sat cross legged next to me while we watched the support band. And then. A decade later ? One if their last gigs in the same room I think. Manchester university. I actually cried! It was pretty emotional. Hopefully I didn't looking that girl at the depeche mode gig on 101.