Elle Magazine- February 1997. Special Beauty Issue;Shopping International:London, Milan, Paris, New York;Gabriel Byrne;John Cusack;Brad Pitt;Patti Smith;Bali Ha'i;Past-Life;Music Men

New; immaculate, sparkling, flawless. See scans and description. Box-shipped; no bags here. New York: Hachette Filippachi Magazines II, Inc., 1997. The February, 1997 issue of genre flagship Elle magazine, Volume XII, Number 6. Quarto, photo-illustrated perfect-bound wraps, and a lusty 240 pp. Brand Spankin' Squeaky New; quite perfect in every way. There are no flaws here. None. Cover to cover. Even the scent-ad panels for Estée Lauder's 'Pleasures' and Giorgio Beverly Hills' 'Red2' are still quite freshly fragrant - seriously - after lo these many years, as this collectible example goes to archival sealing and storage. All tipped in or loose-laid cardstock offers remain inside and pristine. See scans. Cover model is not named, but she should be (she appears to be one of the Milanese models, from that section of the international spring shopping piece). The rather stunningly photographed and composed ads are half the reason you love Elle, and as always this issue is awash with those, including supermodels and models who would become that, but hadn't yet, in February 2000. Perhaps the most featured article is the Spring Shopping International pieces, with styles shots of all breathtaking types from London, Milan, Paris and New York. A long section. Other features in the rich 240 pages of fashion, celebrity, style, health, adventure, food and etc. journalism and photography include, but are hardly limited to: Spring Shopping International- London, Milan, Paris, New York; Gabriel Byrne; John Cusack; Brad Pitt; Patti Smith; Private Bali Ha'i; Past-Life Lessons; The Music Men; Confused in Chicago; E. Jean Carroll; Triathlon Trim, etc. And this is, remember, the Special Beauty Issue as well. A collectible, startlingly-new example of an rapidly-becoming-vintage issue of a topflight genre publication. Shipped in a sturdy, new, protective box - no baggin' it here. See scans. LPR15