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scans from my personal collection of (mostly filipino) youth and culture magazines from the 90s, 2000s, and new 10s
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titles will fold and jobs will come and go, but writers are forever 🫶
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this is such a bad image sorry but “magazines always start in your mind” is my fav nylon spine copy of all time
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thinking about how rico yan could’ve pioneered milk tea culture in the philippines a whole decade early but opted to market artificial powder-based now-all-but-extinct pearl shakes instead 🤡 (we love him anyway don’t we)
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preview rediscovers the romance of old manila with carefree casual wear and illustrations depicting places of quaintness and comfort (september 1997; shot by raymond lontok and illustrated by rom villaseran)
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oh wow it really was a whole thing... need this to be cool again, stat
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other things i love: a tutorial for “dramatic” bangs; the whimsical trend of fancy flask necklaces filled with blowing bubbles 🫧; a monthly section on personal growth via alone time; an essay about writing and family with a typewriter in the illustration bc they were common use
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something so charming about glamour magazine’s approach to design in 1990—understated but dynamic, fun, and bold with color and personality
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“isn’t it romantic?” shot by ellen von unwerth (vogue, february 1993)
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seventeen has the power of god and anime on its side (september 2000)
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candy’s taxonomy of turn-of-the-millennium beauty, as seen on the freshest faces of the era (march 2001)
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did a double-take at predebut krysten ritter in this syndicated hair how-to (seventeen, march 2001)
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seventeen gives readers a peek into barbie and kitchie’s rooms (march 2001; september 2005)
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“kid sister” shot by claudine sia and neil lucente (candy, june 2003)
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i don't think this merits its own post so tacking on that today i learned that predebut daniel henney once modeled for bench (seventeen, july 2003)
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the txtspk 😭 tbf people really had to be crafty and do it bc text messages allowed for very limited characters at the time (but that didn't stop them from typing juSt LyK DiS online anyway)
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candy walks you through your biggest crush-tastrophes (july 2004)
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natalie portman’s june 2003 meg cover and the 411 on her kamiseta deal
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price tag markings and yellowing......this is what happens when you work with historical artifacts char
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📚 in order: seventeen, october 2001; meg, august 2002; meg, november 2004; candy, 2004
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it was the early 2000s, and there was no better time to go all-out with a fun and silly little bag 👜
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preview weighs in on late-nineties celeb styles—proving in the process that jolina’s fun, vibrant, youthful “baduy” maximalism was way ahead of her time (march 1999)
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in chalk's november 2003 gift guide: a see-through blobject pocket radio, a sleek pearlescent lomo camera, the body shop's lip and cheek stain, and a coveted nokia 3100
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