80’s Flashback: The Cramps solicit the fashion-conscious

1.7.2010 @ 1:37 pm UTC by lilah wild

The Cramps ad from 1981 i-D

This was found within the pages of “the worldwide manual of style” back when both band and publication were in their respective childhoods – and while digital art is great and wonderful and fantastic and all that, weren’t the hand-drawn little cartoons of punk-rock yesteryear pretty damn fabulous? The vampiric little skulls around the border are still a popular design trope nearly 30 years later, and I love her sunglasses and the teeny little moon.

From i-D Magazine, somewhere in 1981.