Identity Parade

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In its first-ever issue, dated August 1980, the iconic style magazine i-D exhorted its youthful readership to "join us on [an error occurred while processing this directive]the run" through the worlds of fashion, art, music and street culture. Just over 25 years later, it isn't merely still running — it's setting the pace for a whole new generation of divas, scenemakers and designers. The magazine is commemorating its quarter-century with i-Dentity, a touring exhibition that charts its progress from parochial house journal of London's punk movement to a global fashion title featuring such figures as Madonna, Kate Moss and Kylie Minogue, and designers including the likes of Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. In the process, the retrospective also manages to showcase two and a half decades of popular culture's cutting edge.

The exhibition will be at Beijing's Long March Space gallery from May 20-31, before traveling to Paris and other cities in the fall. Aside from some of i-D's most famous fashion spreads, it features fragrances specially created to conjure up different periods of the past, as well as striking video and audio installations. Not your typical wall of photos, in other words — but then you'd expect nothing less from a magazine that has never failed to scintillate or surprise. More exhibition details can be found at i-dmagazine.com/worldwide.htm