Elle UK began in 1985. This early issue of English Elle.

Featuring: 

Cover featuring Niki Taylor, photographed by Pamela Hanson.

South African author and documentarist, Rian Malan, on his new book 'My Traitor's Heart'. 

Four-page article on Joanne Whalley-Kilmer with a portrait by Firooz Zahedi.

A three-page celebration of the work of Ketih Haring with a portrait by Annie Leibovitz

Roland Gift discusses his playboy lifestyle; portrait by Andrew Macpherson.

Fashion editorials inspired by Miami, all photographed by Pamela Hanson:

• A fusion of metallics, nautical stripes, hot pants and denim modeled by MICHAELA BERCU.

• Ten-pages of leather fashion, modelled by Naomi Cambell, with designs by Gaultier, Katharine Hamnett, Ian & Marcel, Jimmy Choo and Galliano. Styled by Debbie Mason throughout.

• Six-pages of flesh-flashing sports-wear, modelled by Niki Taylor.

• EIght-pages of classic clothes for the summer. Linen, silks, stiles, pipe trousers, white shirts and tailored shorts - modelled by JOANNA RHODES.

• Miami-inspired demin fashion, modelled by Dana Patrick