Hyman had made for themselves amid boxes of donations to the collection.
Space heaters illuminated a nest that Tory Turk (the creative lead), Alexia Marmara (the editorial lead) and Mr. It was frigid inside the archive during a recent visit - a good 10 degrees colder than the chilly air outside - and the staff were bundled up. The magazines he used to research features on musicians and bands formed the early core of what became the Hyman Archive, which now contains approximately 160,000 magazines, most of which are not digitally archived or anywhere on the internet. One pristine copy was for his nascent magazine collection and another was for general circulation among his colleagues, marked with his name to ensure it found its way back to him. Hyman tried to keep two copies of each magazine he acquired. “You want to go through all the magazines and be able to say, ‘Talk about when you did the Nazi salute at Paddington Station in 1976.’ You want to be like a lawyer when he preps his case.” “If you’re interviewing David Bowie, you don’t want to be like, ‘O.K., mate, what’s your favorite color?’,” he said.
Eisenhower at the coronation of Elizabeth II.LONDON - When James Hyman was a scriptwriter at MTV Europe, in the 1990s, before the rise of the internet, there was a practical - as well as compulsive - reason he amassed an enormous collection of magazines. “Few women have lived more multiple lives than I have, as editor as an American president’s personal representative, decorated by six governments as a writer of 13 books and contributor to 6 others, as a painter with 51 one-man exhibitions throughout the world patron of the arts and sciences, irrepressible traveler and more importantly, friend-gatherer,” Cowles wrote in the book.Īccording to Wikipedia, she represented President Dwight D.
In 1996, she worked with Rizzoli to publish “The Best of Flair,” a compilation of the magazine’s most lively content and a look back at her life as an editor and publisher. The magazine had a strong circulation, but its lifespan was short due to the colossal costs of a series of special features, such as embossed covers and gatefold pages.
Highlights include embroidered carpets, playful figurines by Paul Philippe from the 19th century, a Belgian sculpted gilded marble table, and porcelain chandeliers.ĭuring the year that Cowles edited and published Flair – after convincing her husband to finance it – she published works by the likes of Simone de Beauvoir, Eleanor Roosevelt and Lucian Freud. They Are Wearing: Paris Fashion Week Spring 2023įurniture and interior items give a taste of Cowles’ colorful aesthetic and penchant for embellishment.
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