InStyle Firsts

In June '95, three years to the month before Sex and the City first aired, Sarah Jessica Parker(demurely) showed off her bikini bod.

These Manolo Blahniks started it all in September '94, but thousands have followed in their sexy footsteps.

Cindy Crawford's

turn-ons in September '95? Silk nightgowns, caviar and champagne, Prince's "Little Red Corvette." And don't forget the back rub!

For our premiere, Barbra Streisand invited us into her Malibu house to see all the work she'd done over 20 years. "You can't control life; you can control movies and interiors," she said.

"Poetic tailoring!" raved InStyle fashion director Hal Rubenstein of Richard Tyler's "unfailingly flattering" trademark jackets in June '94.

"I'm a suit guy," Michael Jordan told us in December '96. "I have anywhere from 100 to 150."

We showcased Kiss My Face's preservative-free Starlet Scarlet in our first issue (June '94). Hey, we were ecoconscious before it was trendy!

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In March '95 Heather Locklear appeared on the cover with her white Maltese, Harley.

Goldie Hawn

and her 17-year-old daughter, Kate Hudson debut denim on the August '96 cover.

Gwyneth Paltrow

appeared on the cover as In Style's first international edition launched in Germany in March '99.