h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Starting today, I have found another lunchtime pastime. I have a huge tower of old magazines and I reckoned that if I took one a day to work, and flicked through it, cutting out any interesting recipes or information I might still want to keep, then dropping them in the bin, I could soon dispose of the whole lot.

Don't say - "why don't you just throw them straight in the bin anyway?". I don't work like that.

So, today I am reading a "New Woman" from December 1989.

When Harry Met Sally has just come into the cinemas and Nora Ephron is alive and kicking and everyone's favourite.
"Rain man" has just come out on video
Dick Francis is still churning out new books
Was that Carla Bruni in that Helena Rubenstein ad?
Diana is still "Queen-to-be"
The Yorks are still together but definitely not desirable company
Barry Humphries looked old even then.
Big hair is still the thing
Charles Dance is considered sexy
space age diets await the slimmers of the 90s

I'm only half way through (spent ages trying to remember the name of the girl in the Giorgio Armani ad - can anyone help? http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/13/12/b3/1312b3125471492c77f596441ad8f18d.jpg

Lunch break is over, so I'll have to carry on down memory lane in my yellowed old magazine tomorrow.

Sounds like a fine idea If that was me I'd also cut out any interesting-looking pictures and use them to cover a wall(s), a la Joe Orton/Ken Halliwell. I did that once or twice; the first time was the entirety of my bathroom. It made taking a bath even more pleasurable than usual

I still have all the pictures, most of them from magazines in the late 70s and early 80s. I really must do it again.

I might do that, but I don't have my bathroom to myself.

That is interesting, to look at magazines and see what they thought at the time they were written.

Recently I read an Ideal Home magazine from 1972 in a bag that had been stashed away in someone's house and forgotten about, and it was fascinating to look at what was fashionable then, what had dated and what still looked quite good - in particular there were one or two room layouts that would be described as Scandinavian trendy now

I don't have tower of magazines, but I have a tower of song [with apologies to Leonard Cohen]

So - does anyone recognise the girl in the picture? It's on the tip of my tongue. I'm pretty sure she's French. My colleague thought maybe Sophie Marceau..

My first guess was Sophie Marceau, but it doesn't feel quite right. Maybe Carole Bouquet ?

"it was fascinating to look at what was fashionable then, what had dated and what still looked quite good" [SashaQ]

I've never been all that interested in fashions, but being a guy I can get away with it, because a lot of the staples of menswear stay popular from one decade to the next. Sometimes there are changes, as when the rules are adjusted to acknowledge reality. Running/walking shoes are now acceptable formal attire. I've been wearing them as Such for as long as I can remember....

Did a google image search, and one site came up with the name Pipsa Hurmerinta...

Finnish. Possible.