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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and stylish, showing no respect for people in authority, saucy, pert, confident, chic. A couple on the street on Michigan Avenue, Chicago photographed by Perry Riddle in July 1975– Found in the National Archives ‘Traffic-Stopper’ Miss Mary Bay likes her car because it is easy to park. Miss Bay [...]
After I finish telling you about this, I’m going to write a letter to someone; with a pen, and a piece of paper, and an envelope. Because, when was the last time you received a beautiful letter? This is the question being asked by Lettres d’un Inconnu (Letters from a Stranger), a most charming new [...]
That pink suit! It is by far the most dapper suit I’ve ever seen on a man (Robert Redford helped a little too). And with the highly-anticipated remake about to hit our screens, some fashion people went and did some really clever marketing. Brooks Brothers has teamed up with the men’s costume designer of the [...]
Maybe a year ago, I opened a MessyNessyChic instagram account and never shared a single photo since. I figured I already annoy the people I’m with enough, taking pictures for the blog. But then I realised that I take a lot of snaps that never end up in my articles and just sit in my [...]
Taking counterfeiting to a whole new level… Paris in China In the outskirts of Shanghai stands a fake Eiffel Tower overlooking a replica of the Champ de Mars and rows of Parisian townhouses. This is not Disneyland in China, this is the gated community of Tianducheng, built in 2007 by real estate develepors Zhejiang Guangsha [...]
Here is a 3D printed doll, cloned from a real human’s head, that you can never unsee. She has
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It was the most densely populated place on Earth for most of the 20th century, where a room cost
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Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina
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In Paris, every first Wednesday of the month at noon, without fail you can hear the eerie wail of
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When I first stumbled across this picture, I assumed it was some clever photoshopping of a
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1. A Storybook Tower by Friedensreich Hundertwasser AFP/ Timm Schamberger This might look like it
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Before you get too excited by these images, as the title might suggest, this is not an article
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(c) Matt Green Every city has its secrets, it’s just a matter of finding them…
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Now let’s just get something straight. If you want a train in your basement, you’ll
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1. French actor, Gerard Depardieu used to look very, very different. Here he is with Robert DeNiro
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I‘ll admit, I enjoy the occasional Big Mac just as much as the next mass-consumerist, but you
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As bizarre, off-beat and kitsch as they come is the International Banana Museum, boasting the
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is probably one of the most fascinating places on
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Blind dates are bad enough but when your own parents take to the streets and advertise your eternal
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When a group of Australian scientists went on a a voyage to study plate tectonics (?) in the
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