![]() What you won’t find is the second issue of a long-forgotten and extremely short-lived British fashion magazine called Deluxe, published at some point in 1977. ![]() Other current highlights on his site include **David Bowie’**s Isolar from 1976, **Anna Piaggi’**s Algebra of Fashion, and an uber-rare limited edition volume by Raf Simons and photographer Willy Vanderperre dating from 2002. That would currently be the first five issues of Purple magazine, dating back to the late nineties, since you were wondering and the absolute obsession right now, the reference point, Lawrence says, is very specifically 1997-a moment, coincidentally or not, that hung over the recent New York collections for spring 2014. While he strives to keep the constantly in-demand in stock-issues of the cult British magazine Nova, Bruce Davidson monographs, Comme des Garçons 1981–1986-it’s his alignment to the ebb and flow of what’s wanted this very second that explains the store’s appeal. Lawrence is far too discreet to say, but one senses that fashion influencers aplenty come to him to locate the kind of madly inspiring obscura that ends up in design ateliers and on shoot mood boards the world over. One selection from an emailer two months back was entirely devoted to rare tomes documenting the nightclub celebutantes of Paris and New York in the seventies and eighties a forthcoming one will focus heavily on biker culture, particularly that of Japan. It lets you put your thoughts together in one place and see what works together and what doesn’t. These are imaginatively and intelligently curated listings of vintage books, magazines, and printed ephemera culled from art, photography, street style, and high fashion. Whether you are in the process of conceptualizing or planning a project, photo collages and mood boards help you explore ideas and identify the style, mood, colors, and overall feel of your project. He founded his emporium three years ago, dedicating it, he says, to “youth culture, subculture, counterculture.” While November Books has a physical outpost, within a wonderful antiquarian bookstore called Pinda Bryars at 7 Cecil Court, its considerable cult status has grown, thanks to his regular emailers which document his latest finds. ![]() Lawrence, who cuts a cool figure in high-waisted narrow trousers and skinny knit scarves, his hair slicked close to his head in a look somewhere between a sixties garage band rocker and Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker, is a soul music–loving, roller disco dancing, former Vivienne Westwood textile designer. Where does fashion start? Yep, that’s a bit like asking the meaning of life, but one point in its complex system of origins would have to be November Books, a small but beautifully formed-or should that be formatted, since we’re talking books here?-store owned by the young London bookseller Paul Lawrence.
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