DETAILS Magazine, Vol. 7 No. 6, 1988/11 (November), Bill Cunningham’s 17-Page Couturist Class

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November issue of DETAILS Magazine, 1988.  This issue includes a 17-page special of Bill Cunningham’s photography and reviews of the winter collections, and discusses the decline of couture and the rise of ready-to-wear.

Cunningham regularly covered the following designers: Azzedine Alaïa, Giorgio Armani, Geoffrey Beene, Sally Beers, Bill Blass, Chanel, Patricia Clyne, Oscar de la Renta, Giorgio di Sant’Angelo, Dolce and Gabbana, Angel Estrada, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Romeo Gigli, Hermés, Marc Jacobs, Betsy Johnson, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan, Rei Kawakubo, Patrick Kelly, Calvin Klein, Michael Kors, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, Helmut Lang, Ralph Lauren, Issey Miyake, Isaac Mizrahi, Claude Montana, Franco Moschino, Thierry Mugler, Anna Piaggi, Yves Saint Laurent, Sybilla, Isabel Toledo, Gianni Versace, Vivienne Westwood and Yohji Yamamoto. Many of these are in this issue.

Issue also features Stephen Saban’s column, Marcus Leatherdale’s Hidden Identities and other regular DETAILS contributors.

184 Pages. 8.5″ x 11″

Cover photo by Tiziano Magni of model Valerie Roussez, hand-tinted by Kathy Grove.

Couturist Class – story and photographs by Bill Cunningham.

Yves Saint Laurent, with photo of Madame Elsa Schiaparelli

Lacroix’s dresses being worn out on the town

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Art and About by Cookie Mueller, on artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s death

Wigstock Nation by Cynthia Heimel

  

2-page spread of Canter’s deli in L.A., photographed by Pierre-Gilles Vidoli.

  

2-page spread, Middle Eastern Inspiration, Western Interpretation. Photographed by Stephen Grillo, styled by Keith Thomas Pollick.

Cartoon by Ruben Toledo

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For readers of the weekend style section of the New York Times, Bill Cunningham (1929–2016) was a perennial presence in two of the paper’s most popular weekly picture columns: On the Street, a sharp-eyed compendium of the fashion he encountered on the street; and Evening Hours, a compilation of portraits of society figures at New York philanthropic fund-raisers.