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!
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posted by kim at
12:06 PM
7 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.
I just goggled Taxi Mag after finding some of the treasured magazines packed away from days gone by. I LOVED this magazine from cover to cover. My earliest issues are from 1989. Wow it seems like yesterday and surprisingly enough so much of it is so classic I feel as though I could be reading a current magazine.
I thought Taxi Magazine was completely forgotten. There was an issue that covered my favorite store, Madeleine Gallay ... it was sometime in '888 or '89. I so wish I could find that article.
I loved TAXI! I all but cried when they stopped publishing it. The photography! The art! I remember reading a piece about flamenco dance that quoted Lorca on duende - and that sense of what duende is has stayed with me and sent me places I might have otherwise missed.
Taxi, along with old school Details (b4 it turned into a men's mag), The Face and ID shaped me in so many ways. Wish I hadn't lost my copies in the bilion moves I made in my lifetime!!
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