inspiration today: vintage magazine covers

wish they would do covers like this again. Magazines are so stale these days with rolling calendars of the same photoshopped celebrity faces - and not even well-photoshopped either. I would love to stroll passed a magazine stand sometime next month and instead of seeing Keira Hathaway Johansson or whoever on September's Vogue, I would die to see a vivid gouache painting of a model in a Dior Couture gown or a satirical cartoon of a department store salesman begging a customer to buy the new collections. But as that is never to be I guess I'll just have to enjoy the beautiful illustrations on some of these old covers instead and be thankful that we at least still have The New Yorker... I especially love A.H. Fish's whimsical social commentaries:

Issue: February 1921

Artist: A.H. Fish

Description: A woman grows visibly annoyed with her husband, who refuses to put down his newspaper at the dinner table.

Issue: January 1921

Artist: A.H. Fish

Description: A woman, at home leafing through a catalog of automobiles, calls up a man, maybe her husband, to discuss her potential purchase.

Issue: January 1923

Artist: A.H. Fish

Description: Curled in a chair, a woman comes to tears over a stack of bills while her well-dressed husband nonchalantly has a smoke.

Issue: January 1922

Artist: A.H. Fish

Description: Stranded under a full moon, a motorist is defeated by a flat tire while his date waits in the car.

Issue: April 1928

Artist: Marion Wildman

Issue: July 15, 1935

Artist: Cecil Beaton

Issue: June 15, 1935

Artist: Jean Pages

Issue: October 23, 1989

Artist: Lee Lorenz

Issue: March 18, 1939

Artist: Barbara Shermund

Covers available for purshase at Condenaststore.com and Thenewyorkerstore.com.