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Summertime, and the Living Is Easy

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Let’s celebrate the first day of summer with this July 1989 Vogue UK cover, featuring model Carre Otis. The photographer was the great Herb Ritts.

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This picture makes me want to see more beautiful, non-celebrity magazine covers again. It also makes me want to go on vacation!

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  1. Gorgeous! You should see the weather today in Melbourne town, it’s fucking stupidly cold and wet. At least it’s the shortest day so from now on it gets better. I agree, sick of celebutards/celebunothings on the cover of Vogue. More models please!

  2. We’ve had like 5 warm days in SF! It’s absolutely ridiculous. I never signed up for this weather, I could have moved to Seattle for this. Although, I’m thankful that I’m not in Vegas anymore, they’re already at 100 plus weather

  3. What I’d give for some sunshine and a dip in the ocean night now! That’s a fab picture, wasn’t she married to Mickey Rourke and in that film, Wild Orchid? x

  5. Houston is a miserable pit right now–Texas is experiencing a drought–fires are burning everywhere–With the humidity, it’s been over 100 effing degrees everyday!

    I used to love Carre Otis! I remember when she was with Mickey Rourke and that they had a crazy, volatile relationship!

    I just got a copy of “Unzipped” from Netflix–I am going to relive the 90s when models were everywhere!

  6. That was a great, perverse love affair. Mickey spent two years on a magnificent house with workmen sleeping on the floor and a secret room with cameras to spy on his love. He lost the house before his batcave sort of place was finished, a place underground to store his motorcycles and come roaring up and out. He was devastatingly handsome and cool then. Summertime and angels .. Here in Venice Beach, we are honky tonk on the summer boardwalk.

  11. It also makes me wish they wouldn’t crowd the covers with 100 taglines about Gwyneth’s favorite recipes and finding the perfect swim suit for your body. Good photography (and quality content within) will lure the reader; Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar should reevaluate.

  14. If I didn’t know that I’d be likely to freeze solid in our still chilly New England waters, I’d be off to the beach right now, on the strength of that photo alone.

    As in so many other areas where less used to be more, those who design magazine covers seem to think that an intriguing image isn’t enough.