Terry Jones MBE (born 2 September 1945) is a British graphic designer, art director, photographer, book- and magazine-editor.
Created by Terry and Grace Coddington and shot by Willie Christie, the cover was deemed adventurous for the time – even for today.
[8] In 1977 Jones had commissioned the photographer Steve Johnston for a head-to-toe-portrait series of punk youth on London's King's Road.
[10] This kind of documentary approach to fashion photography, then labelled the Straight-up, became one of the trade marks of Terry Jones' own upcoming publication i-D. Terry Jones worked as a freelancer all over Europe until 1979, as a consultant for the German edition of Vogue, for the magazines Donna, with photographer Oliviero Toscani and Sportswear Europe, for selected issues of Italian Vogue, as well as a creative director for the Italian fashion label, Fiorucci.
“He said it wouldn’t sustain commercially.”[14] Undeterred, Jones funded his new venture himself, at around the same time that its spiritual sister publications The Face and Blitz also took off.
Additional collaborators such as John Galliano, Kate Moss, Judy Blame, Alexander McQueen, Helmut Lang, Franz Ferdinand, Chloe Sevigny, Raf Simons, Undercover, Veronique Branquinho, Lily Cole, Giles Deacon, Dizzee Rascal, Scarlett Johansson, Rick Owens and Tadanabu Asano are amongst those who appeared first in i-D.amung many others.
[4][18] Jones states that the ethos of the magazine is founded in this idea of "creating your own rules", going beyond the clothes and investigating how fashion is used as the way of communicating to give an insight of your interests."
"[15] The magazine grew over the years, evolving out of its humble beginnings in the 'fanzine' style, and emerging into the most respected fashion and culture bible.
In 1984 Jones enlisted the help of Time Out publisher Tony Elliott to turn i-D into a more commercial newsstand product.
In 1996, after several years spent concentrating on advertising art direction, Jones decided to take a more hands-on approach to i-D, and subsequently steered the design-led monthly back towards fashion, while retaining a puckish, punkish originality in style and content, throwing material together quickly in the manner of a low-budget film.
[19] In the 90's, Terry made a concerted effort to move i-D into the new decade with an emphasis on social, political and environmental issues.
Terry began consulting for Esprit, and along with owner Doug Thompkins, similarly brought this environmental consciousness to the consumer market, rare for brands at the time.
[21] Terry has also curated and designed the travelling Smilei-D and i-Dentity exhibitions, celebrating i-D's rich history and taking place in cities such as Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, London, Milan, Moscow, New York, Paris and Tokyo.
With Tricia as curator, Terry also designed the travelling SOUL i-D exhibition, recently held in Beijing in October 2012.