Hippies COMMUNES Haight-Ashbury EDWARD BURRA Charlotte March ~ Observer magazine

The area is run down "a drug ghetto and a skid row for young people".  Article by Celia Curtis 6 page feature. Evocative 1970's photographs by Ted Streshinsky.  Steve Stacey and RON LANDBERG of the Good Earth Commune is interviewed and photographed, as is the Mayor of San Fransisco ...along with Love who is the second cousin to ex-Queen Soraya of Persia.  I mean... this is pure gold!

Also features a rare shoot by the great fashion photographer Charlotte March 'Paris off the Peg' 4 pages.  All the clothes are by Sonia Rykiel on one page, on the second we have SONIA RYKIEL,  Yves Saint Laurent  RIVE GAUCHE, Charles Jourdan, Jean Cacharel, Emmanuelle Khanh, Pascal, ESCALADE, JEAN CHARLES BROSSEAU all in red and white - silk crepe dresses and wedge heels.  Charlotte's work also appears in Twen, Honey, 19 and French Elle magazines.  We are big fans!

The Grand Old Recluses of Art.  On the eve of an exhibition showing both painters' work, The Observer profiles of William Roberts and Edward Burra 4 pages.

A Lagoon to Call your Own - Report from Kenya and Tanzania 2.5 pages.

Adverts include (all full page) -

AIR FRANCE and Corsica

An iconic hanging BAMBOO egg chair and model for Murphy's paint

New Triumph Toledo car and FISHING

IRELAND / IRISH Tourist Board

NATIONAL SAVINGS Certificate 

RENAULT

This is a rare issue of the Observer Magazine supplement, only ever on sale for one day.

Excellent condition. All pages tight to staples. Complete, clean and vibrant.

Shipping includes insurance & online tracking. We are happy to combine post.

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