TAXI Magazine
I was looking through my bookshelves last night and I started flipping through my old stash of Taxi Magazines. Oh how I loved this mag! It helped form all of my early tastes, and I couldn't find anything about it online. Well, okay, one picture, a few ebay sales, and lots of mentions in online resumes.
People often talk about how Mirabella & Sassy Magazines were so influential, but for me Taxi brought a real intellectual aesthetic to a girl in a small town. Taxi brought me Last Exit to Brooklyn (which I asked for and received as a Christmas present to my embarrassment after I'd read it), Jean-Paul Gaultier, Yohji Yamamoto, coquilles St. Jacques (for which I made my father hunt down real scallop shells!), endive, Tarot cards, and belly dancing...
I would still wear these today!
Even looking back, the editorial team at Taxi had spot on taste for things that were truly quality and stand the test of time. I so want that wicker chair on the lower left, and with the one above it you can see how current furniture design relates.
Even the spot illustrations are great!
And of course, the advertising is easy to appreciate!
Labels: Fashion
posted by kim at
12:06 PM
3 Comments:
I love Taxi too! www.smashingdarling.com/blog/2007/09/20/in-fashion-whats-old-is-new-again/
I loved Taxi Magazine. I've saved every copy. The fashions were fantastic, but I think I really
appreciated the photography most of all. After coming across this blog, I'm going to dig them
out of storage and savor looking thru them one by one.
It was so nice to find a reference to TAXI Magazine. I too have every issue and was really sad when they stopped publishing it. I especially loved the issue that covered Bangkok. Every once in a while I pull out my copies and look through them.
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