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He was selling custom-made clothing to Hip Hop’s finest for thousands of dollars a piece, fashioned from rolls of fake Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Fendi prints imported from Korea out of his Harlem boutique during the 1980s. His name is Dapper Dan and before the likes of Kanye West and Rihanna were doing it, this [...]
This is the story of a French postman who spent thirty years of his life building his dream home– a palace made of pebbles and stones he found along his postal route…. Ferdinand Cheval allegedly first began building his “Palais Ideale” in 1879 when he tripped over an unusual stone. Inspired by its shape, he [...]
Waiter! There’s a Britney Spears in my coffee! (I knew that was going to be terrible but I did it anyway). We’ve seen hearts and even cat faces in our lattes made by baristas with an artistic flair– some good, some great, but I’ll bet you’ve never seen anything quite like these coffee portraits by [...]
Pretty girl bullsh** aside, the latest release from LA-based crooner known as Banks, is like one of those ear-catching songs that you hear at a really cool, not-sure-how-I-got-invited-to-this party and try to nonchalantly inquire who is the artist currently playing over the speakers. And if you’re too hungover to remember who it was the next morning, you’ll [...]
In 1914, sixteen year old Salvatore undertook the long journey to the United States to live with one of his brothers who worked at a cowboy boot factory in Boston (a cowboy boot factory in Boston?!). The eager young Ferragamo went to the factory to learn more about the art of making footwear. The modern [...]
Storm is a look into the life of winemaker, Ernst Storm, a South African native with vineyards in the Santa Ynez Valley. Over the period of a fall grape harvest, the documentary gives an intimate portrait not only of the winemaking process and the beautiful landscapes of wine country, but more importantly it is [...]
In 1954, Edith Piaf would have been 38 years-old. It was a time when she was trying to beat her severe addiction to alcohol and was known to take morphine before going on stage to perform. Nevertheless, I think you’ll agree, her performance moves you, even through the grainy black and white recording of this [...]
Oscar night is here and over the next few days we’re going to be inundated with photographs of the most recognizable faces. So how about a few that perhaps we don’t recognize… 1. Charlie Chaplin Honorary award for Circus in 1928, Honorary lifetime achievement award in 1972 and Best original Score for Limelight in 1973. [...]
Our first letter comes from Frank in 1976, addresed to the Chicago Daily News writer, Mike Royko, who had just published an article questioning the special treatment Frank had received from the Chicago police while in town for a concert. Here is how Sinatra felt about the piece and its writer… 1. “Quite frankly, I [...]
On June 3rd, 1968, Andy Warhol was shot three times in his infamous studio, known as the Factory, and survived. The shooter was actress and member of Warhol’s entourage, Valerie Solanas, pictured right and above with the artist. On that day she also shot Mario Amaya, an art critic, who received minor injuries, while Andy was so [...]
One of his artworks is counted amongst the top 10 most expensive paintings ever sold ($100 million
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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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Pretty girl bullsh** aside, the latest release from LA-based crooner known as Banks, is like one
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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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The other night I tucked myself up in bed and watched Funny Face, the 1957 Gershwin musical
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Anna Karina arrived in Paris at the age of seventeen from Denmark. She spoke no French and
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What is more enchanting than an artist’s studio? When these painters, sculptors and creators
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Imagine a place where caveman bedding, lime green carpeting and hotel rooms named after cultural
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In the summer of 1965, riots broke out in the Watts neighborhood of southern Los Angeles. Over a
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John Lennon would later tell a journalist for Rolling Stone magazine that he and Dylan had done
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Anyone that saw the September Issue will know who Grace Coddington is and probably fell in love
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So it’s not yet 11am here in Paris and I’m pretty much wasted on some brandy tea that I
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1. When the Centro Universitario of Mexico abbreviated all over their sports uniforms: Top row,
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“Nadja à Paris” is a short 13-minute film by a French New Wave director, Eric Rohmer,
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