ANNIE FLANDERS' BOUND COPIES OF DETAILS MAGAZINE. Details Magazine. Jun...

The Collection of Annie Flanders
ANNIE FLANDERS' BOUND COPIES OF DETAILS MAGAZINE.
Details Magazine. June 1982-August 1990.
Continuous run in 12 volumes bound in polished black calf, spine gilt. With additional bound volume of Volumes I-II (June, 1982- December/January 1983/84), upper cover gilt, this volume SIGNED by original contributors/staffers STEPHEN SABAN, HAL RUBENSTEIN, JOANNA DANDEL, RUBEN SEAKS, DAVID MCDONOUGH, LESLEY VINSON, DEBRA SCHULTZ, MEGAN HAUNGS, RONNIE COOKE, MARTY COOKE, SETH ALLEN and ALAN WEITZ.

ANNIE FLANDERS' PERSONAL BOUND SET of the original issues, including the smaller format issues that came out in summer 1983 before the magazine returned to its original size. Originally printed on newsprint, the magazine had a fun, funky feel, almost like an underground 'zine, and focused on the fashion and art world and its attending nightlife. The second issue features an advertisement from Chrysalis Records for a promising new artist named Billy Idol. Boy George appeared on the cover of another early issue.
Marcia Weinraub (1939-2022) was born in the Bronx. As a young woman, she studied fashion and journalism at NYU (and won the 1959 Miss NYU pageant!) before launching a career as buyer for various department stores. In 1967 she opened her own store on the upper east side, Abracadabra, a funky boutique specializing in new and avant-garde designers. She met Chris Flanders, an actor, and though they never married, she took his last name and also changed her first name when he suggested she was more of an "Annie" than a "Marcia." Abracadabra ran for a few years, then Flanders moved to Ethiopia to oversee a leather manufacturing enterprise. In 1976 she was hired as the Fashion Editor for the Soho Weekly News, a newspaper designed to rival the more popular and famous Village Voice. The Soho News shut down in 1982, and with $6000 of her own money, Flanders started Details with many of her Soho News staffers. Details was to be a diary not just of a neighborhood, but of the whole city--its nightlife, restaurants, art, music and fashion scenes. It's motto? "A party in a magazine." The magazine published monthly (rather than weekly, like the Soho News) and featured photography from some of the most important photographers working at the time: Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel, Amy Arbus, Patrick McMullan—and Flanders' very close friend, Bill Cunningham. Cunningham is best known for his long association with the New York Times but Flanders first gave him the most freedom of any editor.

Details caught on with its audience but never found financial stability. Flanders sold out to an investor in 1986, who then sold the magazine on to S.I. Newhouse in 1988. She remained as Editor-in-Chief for a short period before being pushed out altogether. Then, the publisher made the head-scratching decision to turn Details into a men's magazine before the entire project was shut down in 2015.

Flanders' post-Details career included co-sponsoring the Love Balls of 1989 and 1991, and a later move to Los Angeles where she continued to write and consult until her death in 2022.