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Cosmopolitan is and always has been provocative women’s magazine. I remember reading it as a curious teenager, trying to fold over half the page I was looking at so the person next to me wouldn’t see. But browsing through the Old Magazine Shop‘s vintage copies of the mag, I found myself quite surprised, sometimes even [...]
We all have bad hair days, whether its uncooperative hairlines or one too many rounds with the hair curler, most of us would rather just stay the f**k indoors. But in the city of Monterrey in Mexico, an urban subculture known as the Cholombians have taken most people’s idea of a very, very bad hair [...]
Does anyone else find fashion more special when it’s illustrated? I think it brings out that childish innocence of interest in fashion before we ever worried about what it might do for our figures. Lovingly scanned one by one from The Art of Vogue Covers by South African blogger MissMoss, these art deco Vogue illustrations [...]
Photo by Jim Naughten We’ve already met the Sapeurs, a subculture of extraordinarily dressed male dandies from the Congo who wear expensive tailored suits, elegantly smoke on their pipes and stroll their war-torn slums in immaculate footwear… Now it’s time to meet the women with a flair for western fashion of another era… In the south [...]
This lovely young lady snapped in the 1930s is dressed to celebrate the beginning of harvest in the fertile Rio Grand Delta. Her amazing gown is made entirely from grapefruit peels and appeared in an issue of National Geographic. So what have we learned? A fruit dress might stink up your closet but at least [...]
If you were stuck in the desert, what would you need to survive? Water, food, a Prada handbag perhaps? On Route 90 in Texas, 60 km from the nearest town of Marfa with just 2,500 residents, like a mirage in the desert, you’ll find Prada Marfa, a permanently installed sculpture built to mimic the luxury [...]
Now wait a minute. I’m not just some anti-fashion hippie that’s mad at the world and trying to tell everyone to start carrying environmentally friendly potato sacks. I’m a qualified, fully-recovered “It Bag” addict myself. I started young, real young. At one point I sacrificed my entire Christmas wish list so that I could get [...]
Condé Nast: fashion media giant, Anna Wintour’s boss and publishing house behind VOGUE, Vanity Fair, Tatler and Glamour to name a few, has decided to expand its empire and take on the role of educator. Die-hard fashionistas will now have the chance to learn beyond the pages of their favorite fashion bible and actually graduate [...]
Guess what! I managed to convince the buzzed-about bohemian jewelry designer, Pure Dead Brilliant (who I’m ever so slightly obsessed with) that it would be a good idea to give me free stuff to give to you! Not only will a lucky winner get to choose a favorite piece from any of the designs featured in this article, [...]
Wedding season is upon us. I know this because there are currently at least five brides-t0-be sharing every single disastrous moment that occurs in the build up to their weddings on my Facebook newsfeed. The closer they get to their big day, the more volatile the status updates become. And so to commemorate this joyous [...]
In a dark and forgotten storage room of Clifton’s cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, a neon
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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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Apparently Keira Knightley and her co-stars improvised their way through this thirteen minute
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He was selling custom-made clothing to Hip Hop’s finest for thousands of dollars a piece,
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Every once in a while, a fashion brand does something that stays with you and swims around in your
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Sometimes I wonder about things like, who’s going to know how to make a piano in twenty
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The first post seems to have tickled your fancy, so over the past month I’ve been collecting
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I‘m just discovering I have a bit of a thing for vintage envelopes– I think it’s the
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No, this isn’t the rescue mission of a shipwrecked Porsche 911, this is a picture of a 911
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Upon learning of his muse’s engagement to the Prince of Monaco, Alfred Hitchcock allegedly
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What a rare treat it would be to receive something like this today. It certainly makes emailing
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The weekend is fast approaching, we’re looking forward to letting our hair down, maybe go
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Just look at her. “You know you want me”, is what she’s saying. And it could be
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I came across the fantastic photograph below and knew there had to be more preserved sassy moments
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You might have noticed that sneakers are back in style this year and designers are scrambling to do
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