From AbFab to Zen: Paper's Guide to Pop Culture

by Dashka Slater and Kim Hastreiter

"...the Vogue of the down-low universive."--Jay McInerney. "Consistently ahead on style trends."--The New York Times. "The magazine of culture formation among the seriously hip."--Time Magazine.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891024043
• ISBN13: 9781891024047
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Abfab to Zen

The ultimate cool, hip guide to Pop Culture icons! I'm having so much fun reading this -- and there are even free PAPER stickers included with the book. It's a fun trip down memory lane for those who have lived in New York City (or kept up with it)during the 80's and 90's -- it totally covers the downtown art, fashion, club and entertainment scenes. Amazing how many street trends PAPER covered early on have gone mainstream. Don't miss this one!

the sweetest candy

From Abfab to Zen is the sweetest candy. Pop Culture is covered from A to Z, drawing from Paper Magazine's exploration of its emergence. This book is definative and thorough. Its authors know their material and are committed to letting people know where things start. Lucious images accompany a list of everything no one should have missed. If it's not here, it's o.k. that you missed it.

Guide to instant hipness - not for Giuliani fans

From Abfab To Zen is a must-read for anyone who yearns to be inside the mind of New York's pre-yuppie downtown. This summary of Paper Magazine's in-your-face visuals, sly takes on the media and seditionary stance on fashion, is a valentine to all the people and institutions that have been thinking outside of the box for the last 15 years. If you dare to be hip, buy it and refer to it.

fun fun fun....

filled with pictures of some of my favorite people, places, and things from the past decade. Waters' intro is a scream and the art direction fantastic.

Paper magazine--a book at last!

If you don't know Paper, you should. It's where to go to see what's new, what's outrageous, what's beautiful, and what's really going on behind the usual media mavens' backs. If you want to be introduced to the art, fashion, music, image, and thought that's bubbling under the surface, Paper will take you there. At last, a book to show us who what where and how.