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1985 Cindy Crawford advertisement...
1985 Cindy Crawford advertisement...
Item # 725368
March 29, 1985
LOS ANGELES TIMES, March 29, 1985
* 19 year old supermodel Cindy Crawford
* Very early modeling advertisement
Page 5 has a advertisement showing a very young Cindy Crawford modeling a sun dress for a high end Beverly Hills department store "i. m a g n i n" which no longer exists. This ad takes up one half of a full page. (see images)
I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because there was really no reason to save it at the time.
Complete 1st section only with all 36 pages, very nice condition.
background: This is a remarkably rare find because it captures Cindy Crawford during the exact window of 1985 when she was transitioning from a Midwestern college student to a professional model, just months before she moved to New York and ignited the "Supermodel" phenomenon of the late '80s. While 1990s covers are relatively easy to find, 1985 regional newspaper advertisements like this are significantly rarer because newspapers were printed on high-acid paper intended to be thrown away the next day, unlike glossy magazines which people tended to archive. Furthermore, this ad represents a "lost" era of California luxury; I. Magnin was the West Coast’s premier high-end retailer—often called the "Bergdorf Goodman of the West"—and since the chain was liquidated in 1994, original print marketing featuring their iconic branding has become a niche collectible. Finding a pristine page from the Los Angeles Times that pairs one of the world's most recognizable faces with a defunct titan of fashion retail makes this a "holy grail" for collectors of 1980s ephemera.
Category: The 20th Century
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