1991 Fashion trends

In just the woman 2nd 12 months modeling, a then 15-year-old Niki Taylor graced significantly more than a dozen pages in three split style stories for ELLE's very first dilemma of 1991. Even though the remainder people were sitting in a classroom fretting about the next day's geometry quiz, right here, the sunkissed child (who was in addition the issue's cover girl—her firstly two the year) takes her gingham Gottex bikini for a wade in St. Tropez waters in the Bardot-inspired swim shoot, "Baby Doll!" (January)

ELLE Flashback: 1991

In the 39-page style epic "It really is Spring once more!" ELLE staff stylist Fanny Pagniez outfits a design for a pretty portrait in head-to-toe Yohji Yamamoto, including an asymmetric, off-the-shoulder jumpsuit with line detail ($2, 310) and an "aerodynamic" white-linen hat ($1, 385) that I'm confident woman GaGa wouldn't kick up out of bed. (February)

Iconic '90s fashion designer Gianni Versace tapped iconic '90s supermodels Helena Christensen, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington for their household's Spring '91 ad promotion, which, as you can plainly see, was hefty on hardware and strong spiritual touches. (February)

With its 2nd and final period, it program "Twin Peaks" ended up being more than just the cult favorite it's today—back in 1991, "whom killed Laura Palmer?" ended up being the latest "Just who shot J.R.?" A bonafide struck that established the jobs of movie stars Kyle McLaughlin and Sherilyn Fenn (and introduced Joan Chen to a wide market), "Twin Peaks" also established its creator/director, Blue Velvet and Wild in mind's David Lynch, as a versatile, multi-genre hitmaker. Even though you weren't a headliner like actress Kimmy Robertson (shown here, she played offbeat receptionist Lucy Moran), you continue to got the chance to talk Chanel, Ferragamo, and Guerlain's Shalimar in a full-page profile in ELLE. Not too bad. (March)

"Life is a beauty competition. I believe women are difficult. They're not attractive or poor. No matter if they're playing nice and vulnerable, they're not." So says avant garde designer Thierry Mugler regarding the fairer sex, a number of who he styled and photographed inside the latest collection within the manner tale "Mugler by Mugler." (March)

Inside days before magazines were supposed to, especially, offer clothes, there clearly was the opportunity when it comes to periodic nude address model. Right here, a radiant Fabienne Terwinghe wears nothing but the woman Estée Lauder lotion (with SPF, naturally) and a smile. (May)

1991 was the entire year of Paula Abdul's sophomore record, Spellbound, the follow-up to her smash first, 1988's Forever Your Girl. A bonafide pop star, Abdul was one of the first feminine recording performers to parlay the woman musical success (Spellbound would fundamentally go platinum 13 times over) into huge endorsement relates to businesses like Coca-Cola and extremely cool shoemaker L.A. equipment. (May)

Any periodical that puts a two-page profile of Steven Seagal in its September issue is a mag i am happy to work at. Here, critic Lewis Grossberger causes himself to take really the activity celebrity with all the Ponytail (capitalization his) whoever first three films—Above what the law states, Hard to Kill, and Out for Justice—grossed over $200 million dollars. Grossberger's bottom line? "Seagal's ambition, like their pretentiousness, is endless." Case in point: "Out for Justice opens up with an Arthur Miller quote." (September)

Belgian-born Martin Margiela has always been very exclusive, in 1991 he allowed ELLE's Stephen O'Shea to enter their Paris atelier (found near the city's seedy Red Light area) and talk to him—"through an in depth friend"—about all things style. Although meeting centered on Margiela's enthusiasm the brand-new "recycled" trend that fashion designer dubbed le obliterate ("whenever I slash old or new garments, " the former longtime assistant to Jean-Paul Gaultier says, "I do not think about it as a destructive act—it's my way of bringing them back into life in another type of form"), O'Shea's profile also included some fascinating individual ideas, a few of that are scrawled on Margiela's "graffiti wall" (pictured). (October)