The eighties and nineties were glorious decades for fashion editors.
Glossy magazines had big budgets to enable the expression of aesthetic vision. Humans still had the capacity for abstract thought.
Never mind if the clothes were neither practical nor affordable; the message could still be absorbed: ‘The barons of impeccable taste decree that this is the vibe this season.’
The ‘vibe’, mark you, not ‘the look’, because you often couldn’t see the clothing clearly on the page.
‘It was all
