Hello, friends! 

 

I've been wanting to create such a topic for a very long time. A place for all of us where we can share info and ask questions about all things vintage.

 

I'm gonna start with wishing you health and prosperity in these hard times. Let us all dive into our vintage passion in order to distract ourselves. 

I just got an e-mail from VOGUE IT, saying that their archive is free for the next 3 months! 

Now I know what I'll be doing for the foreseeable future! thanks for the tip.

Hey, guys! Does anyone know what happened to jalou gallery?

Jalou Gallery is closed!

 

and a good idea this thread!

 

Yeah, I know it is... I hadn't checked it out for a while and was hoping that it was back online but... I can't access it through archive.org. They used a flash player, I guess that's why. 

I wonder why they opened the VOGUE Italia archive! I hope they do the same with the French issues, it would be lovely!

We can go through the list and get pictures of each model that participated in elite and ford contest like a database of vintage models

I started this awhile ago but no one seemed interested.

I checked this thread out and could recognize some of the 80s/early 90s contestants. It's interesting how among that 1983 shows were Cindy and Stephanie, yet the winner was Lisa Hollenbeck. She's gorgeous though. 

 

By the way... @modelknowledge, could you post some pics of Elite's books? I think you posted them some time ago but I don't know where. I'd like to see some lesser known models they represented.

@Rocket Queen I only found those books from IMG and Elite because someone was trying to sell them. It didn't have any unknown models. Marlowe Archive is useful but Classic Models boards are better. If you have noticed, I make a lot of threads of older models. Its because they are not supermodels but worked prolifically in their 20s. I also try to add as many inactive models from the 2000s that I can remember when I find their work. You may notice that I use a lot of tags. Before my break, I started to tag everything as a way to help us identify old runway shows. I used to record every model in agency every 6 months in a thread to help us down the road. I created model lists for magazines, catalogs, and brands to record every model that worked for them so people could find out who a model was on their own. Problem was everyone who was interested in model over 25 seemed to disappear and I couldn't keep up with it.  My resource links are still there but people are not labeling when posting or creating bios.

 

I have bolded the ones that will be helpful to you

 

 

My tags:

Types of modeling

Classic Model: Any model over 30 signed to any agency that continue to works today

Lifestyle Model: Any model doing editorial work that is not high fashion ie Fitness, Health, Kniting, Etc.

Runway Model:  Any model that has done runway work (check decades active tags)

Catalog Model- Any model that does catalog work

Commercial Print model- A model who is a non-fashion model

Commercial Model- does commercials for non-high fashion clients

Editorial Model- any high fashion model who did magazine work and runway

Hair Models- 

Swimwear Model- 

Lingerie Model

Glamour Model- Playboy/Page 3 types

Instagram Models

Promotional Models- ie Convention Models/Beer Girls/Etc

Vintage Models- Retired Models who stopped working before 2000.

Retired Models- Any model who is no longer in the industry.

 

Decades active tags

1970s- Means active anytime from 1970-1979

1980s- Means Active anytime from 1980-1989

1990s 

2000s

2010s

 

Physical Features (there are more but here are a few) 

Short Hair

Green Eyes

Short Models (Petite under 5'7")

 

 

If you guys can get in the habit of labeling work like fashionspot standards and tagging models like this there are plenty of people who are scanner/scavengers who will update threads. My tip is to never post all the images at once like you guys do. The more often you post in a topic the more other people see them and help find images. The key is to engage more people to help you identify models. There is a system already in place ie tags to find models. The key is to utilize all the tools you have.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hey, guys! I want to start a new conversation about vintage mag collections. Could you share how many issues you have? And possibly where you get them from?

 

So far I've collected about 300-350 issues of mostly mid/late 90s ELLE DE and IT, as well as a lot of Amica issues. I do have some VOGUE ones too. The rest are either Burda or miscellaneous issues like a few Marie Claire ones, I've got a couple of the very beautiful French L'Officiel, Harper's Bazaar and some Gioias as well as Anna.

Nice to open this thread about the vintage stuff & everybody knows how get access to the archive of US Vogue from the mag's website? TIA

I don't think there's a way of doing that. But I do know that there are some libraries in the US who have gained access and you can browse through the archive if you're a member.

 

Years ago I registered for the online archive (without knowing it was that expensive!) and I got a call from a member of their staff who asked me if I really wanted to join given that I had to pay so much. Of course I said no and so I've not even tried to access the online archive again.

 

I'm actually a lot more interested in browsing through the archive of the French, German or Spanish issues as they are more rare.

^Wow, i didn't know that about the way to get access on this archive & pay many money. Thank you anyway @RocketQueen

On 7/8/2020 at 11:03 AM, RocketQueen said:

By the way... @modelknowledge, could you post some pics of Elite's books? I think you posted them some time ago but I don't know where. I'd like to see some lesser known models they represented.

I put them all in one spot so you can have easy access. 
 

 

Thanks!

On 8/6/2020 at 4:29 PM, RocketQueen said:

Hey, guys! I want to start a new conversation about vintage mag collections. Could you share how many issues you have? And possibly where you get them from?

 

So far I've collected about 300-350 issues of mostly mid/late 90s ELLE DE and IT, as well as a lot of Amica issues. I do have some VOGUE ones too. The rest are either Burda or miscellaneous issues like a few Marie Claire ones, I've got a couple of the very beautiful French L'Officiel, Harper's Bazaar and some Gioias as well as Anna.

 

I only started collecting last year so its still small around 80 issues i only collect asian magazines since they are so hard to find online or even to buy. A lot of 90s/00s vogue korea, early issues of vogue nippon, w korea, bazaar japan. Its been hard to buy since covid but recently found rare issues of l’officiel korea when it was a women’s magazine 2001/2002 (so many great edits) and elle japon from 2000-2003 and can’t wait till they arrive.  

2 hours ago, fahad.s said:

 

I only started collecting last year so its still small around 80 issues i only collect asian magazines since they are so hard to find online or even to buy. A lot of 90s/00s vogue korea, early issues of vogue nippon, w korea, bazaar japan. Its been hard to buy since covid but recently found rare issues of l’officiel korea when it was a women’s magazine 2001/2002 (so many great edits) and elle japon from 2000-2003 and can’t wait till they arrive.  

Most editorial models are sent to those markets for practice but not every model makes it there. Australia New Zealand models are often sent there because of the proximity but those markets are a you girls game. The models in those magazines would be in their mid to late 30s now. Some may still be working. 

Started 1970s Model Database because there Marlowe Press is heavily focused on 80s. Lots of these 70s models are now modeling again. this whole baby boomer market has them coming out of the woodwork. 

 

I can’t remember who likes the 70s so please let the appropriate members know. I will do 50s and 60s too but I want to get this rolling first 

 

 

Hey, guys! 

 

I was going through some covers and found some more pics of Linda Doig aka Leigh Richards. Does anybody know what happened to her? There's a page on Facebook in memory of Linda that hasn't been updated for several years. So I guess she's been deceased for some years now. There are a couple of websites which obviously have info about what happened to her, but I can't seem to access them. It's strange because all I can read is just a small part of their titles and they say something about mysterious death in a motel... Quite bizarre there's nothing about this on the Internet. 

 

Hi, @RocketQueen! Yes, Linda died in 2011. Apparently she was suffering from an alcoholism and was in abusive relationship. I have copied an article about her death and put it under the spoiler tag so you can read it too.

Spoiler

 

In the wake of the mysterious death of a down-on-her-luck former supermodel, authorities are claiming that they handled her death according to the protocol, but questions remain about whether the death scene should have been investigated as a potential crime scene– and why Charlottesville Police never notified next of kin.
"They treated her like a dead dog on the side of the road," says Federico Pignatelli, a long-time friend of Linda Doig, whose tragic life and death were the subjects of the Hook's January 5 cover story.

Charlottesville Police claim they tried to call Doig's daughter, but the daughter disputes that account.

"If they'd left a message on my phone telling me it was about my mom, I would have called back immediately," says daughter Ashley Richards, adding that she didn't see any unknown numbers on her phone in the days after his mother's death.

To Pignatelli, a well-known California-based photography studio-owner and businessman, the lack of notification is just one painful part of police inaction. More ominously, he asserts, was a failure to investigate, particularly with the death scene presence of an alleged serial abuser and control freak.

Pignatelli says the presence of allegedly abusive boyfriend Carey Hicks should have launched a serious investigation. Instead, as Police acknowledge, they concluded– and they say they have the medical examiner's report to back it– that death resulted from the 51-year-old woman's heavy drinking rather than anything sinister.

"She had broken ribs and blood in her lungs," says the outraged Pignatelli, citing injuries for which Doig was allegedly treated about two weeks before her death, and which he believes were inflicted by Hicks. A reporter photographed Doig one week before death with a large bruise on her cheek– something she attributed to a fall. The reporter's recent repeated attempts to reach Hicks, a 47-year-old unemployed carpenter, have been unsuccessful.

As detailed in the story, "Broken beauty: The lofty life and tragic death of Linda Doig," the woman Madison Avenue knew as "Leigh Richards" soared to modelling fame in the late 1970s and became the public face for some of the top brands of the day. However, friends say that a serious back injury in 1992 helped push Doig into a drinking problem; and after moving to Albemarle County in 2005, she became involved with Hicks– a relationship, Pignatelli asserts, that only exacerbated her woes.

Over the past year-and-a-half, Albemarle and Charlottesville police have been summoned on numerous occasions to quell altercations between the two. Three times since June, Hicks, who has a history of violence against women, violated a court order to stay away from the Stone Creek Village apartment complex where Doig lived, and an August incident nearly turned deadly when Doig stabbed Hicks, she claimed, in self-defence.

Most recently, according to numerous witnesses, Charlottesville police were summoned to Lee Park on November 21 for an incident involving the two. Less than a week after the city's November 30 clear-out of the Occupy Charlottesville protesters, Doig would be dead.

So what did happen in the wee hours of December 5 in room 115 of the Emmet Street Econo Lodge?

"They didn't find anything suspicious at the scene," says Charlottesville Police Lt. Gary Pleasants, who describes what police encountered when they arrived around 3:45 am on December 5.

"It appeared she was preparing the bath when she passed away," says Pleasants, revealing that Doig was found disrobed and lying in an empty tub. There were no signs of violence in either the bathroom or motel bedroom, Pleasants says.

According to Pleasants, both Hicks and Doig had been drinking. Hicks told police Doig had gone into the bathroom around 9 pm, and he'd gone to sleep. When he awoke, more than six hours later, he told police, he discovered her body and sought help.

That account is at least partially confirmed by the 911 call that followed his appearance at the motel office.

Placed at 3:36 am by a female clerk at the Econo Lodge, the recording was obtained by the Hook in a Freedom of Information request.

"A guy just walked up to the window and asked to call a rescue squad for room 115," the motel clerk calmly tells the emergency operator. The clerk gives no indication of the man's demeanour or whether he indicated anything urgent.

"He just said it," says the clerk, "and walked off."

The alert 911 operator, Margaret Bamford, offers an extra precaution.

"I'm probably going to send P.D. up there too," says Bamford, "because we don't know exactly what's going on."

Five minutes later, at 3:41 am, an ambulance arrives. At 3:46 am, just three minutes after police arrive, the would-be rescuers declare "priority black"– the emergency code for death.

According to call centre records, at least five Charlottesville officers responded, and the last two appear to have remained until shortly before 7 am, about three hours total. Pleasants says police were prepared to conduct a full investigation if circumstances warranted.

Legal analyst David Heilberg says police must have made a judgment call.

"I don't know how much physical evidence there was," says Heilberg. "Knowing her self-destructive background," he notes, "human nature is you're not going to work that one as hard."

Doig's friends and family, however, say that Hicks' history of physical abuse and his presence at the motel should have been evidence enough.

"They had a duty to investigate what happened here," says attorney Richard Armstrong. "It's what the taxpayers pay for."

Armstrong says an investigation should include interviews with loved ones and any potential witnesses. That would mean interviewing residents of surrounding motel rooms and friends and family such as Pignatelli and Doig's daughter, Ashley Richards.

Pleasants concedes, however, that there's nothing in the record about canvassing other motel guests. And even a month after Doig's death, none of Doig's friends or family have been interviewed by Charlottesville Police. In fact, Pignatelli says, if it weren't for the actions of another friend, he and Doig's daughter might still be searching.

On December 14, Doig's friend Rusty Bracho had his bags packed and was preparing to fly from his home in California to Charlottesville to search for the living Doig. He contacted Albemarle County Sheriff Chip Harding for help.

Agreeing to help Bracho on his Pignatelli-funded mission, Harding spoke with Charlottesville Police and checked the computer database to see if Doig might have been arrested since her disappearance from Lee Park. She'd been dead for nine days. Harding made the painful call.

"I was devastated," says Bracho, who notified Pignatelli that their rescue attempt would be futile; and Pignatelli, who has been a father figure to Ashley since her birth, shared the tragic news with the high school student.

"It's insanity in its purest form," Pignatelli says of the Charlottesville Police's failure, noting that his credit card was on file to pay for the room.

Although a previous report says police had no identification for Doig, Pleasants says Charlottesville police did, even if they didn't recover her wallet, know Doig's identity that night. However, Pleasants says that when the file was handed over to the lead investigator, Detective Lisa Reeves, the incident report failed to make sufficient note of Doig's daughter and any unsuccessful effort to reach her.

"Unfortunately," says Pleasants, "the detective did not know that until later on."

Ashley says she spoke briefly with Reeves after learning the fateful news but says her follow-up calls to the detective have gone unreturned. The teen has additional concerns that include an allegation that several of her mother's belongings have gone missing– among them a laptop computer and cellphone, both purchased for her by Pignatelli.

If the police saw no obvious crime signs, they did send Doig's body to the medical examiner's office. Pending final toxicology results, Ashley plans to acquire a copy of the full autopsy report as well as copies of her mother's medical records that might show the extent of injuries she allegedly described suffering at Hicks' hands.