Secret thesis (style bible slight return)

Some of this 1984-85 iD imagery is genuinely cool, really chic e.g. this one below Or just funBut some of it is a hot mess'And some edges into Nathan Barley territory iD always had this thing of pushing style to a sort of jolie laide point - and then beyond into outright unpleasing to the eyeThat's what makes it interesting as a magazine and why I would dearly love to have the complete run of its first several years (alas they go for astronomical prices - fashion designers trying to pillage old ideas must be a major pressure on the vintage value - but also just international Anglophiles and nostalgic ex-stylists now monied enough to rebuy what they once bought and chucked out)Why oh why are they not pdf-ed by some loon online?Later on iD gets to be purely chic-with-edge - as I trawled through the old issues online a lot of covers and spreads from the 2000s onwards would pop up - and they are generally elegant, less trapped in time. Perhaps speaking to a conversative shift in clothing,…