TAKE EVERYTHING AND ADD MORE. THE SALVADOR DALI PARIS VOGUE OF DECEMBER 1971 IS ONE OF THESUPREME ACHIEVEMENTSOF MAXIMALISM. AMEGAZINE, AN AMAZINE, A VERY HIGHLY DESIRABLE 'ZINE THAT IS OF COURSE PAINFULLY RARE.
Chairman Monroe / Marilyn Mao. Dali had the idea, Philippe Halsman performed the pre-Photoshop operation. It dates back to 1952 but Dali didn't use it until he was invited to guest edit this issue of Vogue. It clashes horribly with the neo-classical type and typical exercise in perspective but, of course, works wonderfully!
Dali's muse Amanda Lear is the superstar of the issue. Tied by chains of pearls to a silver cross while desperately trying to remember what those separated sleeves she is wearing are actually called.
The defining image. A choice of a hundred plus extraordinary visions in one magazine. Lear with the shallow plate of eggs is not an easy forget.
One regular fashion shoot is squeezed into the issue. A classic Vogue travel story - Senegal. Across all other editorial pages Dali and his collaborators, David Bailey, Philippe Halsman, Robert Descharnes run amok. See more of the issue on this extraordinary superlink .
Dali drops double pages like grocery bags on a tiled floor. Broken eggs run into spilt milk around bruised apples and oozing caramel.
Favourite page. Lear a mermaid - washed up with the vestiges of two knights. It prompts more questions than it answers: one of which must surely be 'HOW DO I BUY THIS MOST LEGENDARY OF VOGUES?!' Fortunately it is no more surreal a process than clicking the button below. ASAP!