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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 [...]
Chene House, Detroit, 1973-2010 I keep coming back to Detroit. It’s bizarre how photogenic the downfall of America’s industrial powerhouse can be. However there’s an eerie and unwanted sense of responsibility to be felt when looking through these before & after photographs of Detroit taken in 1973 and 2010 by the same photographer, Dave Jordano. I [...]
Photo via Sweet Italia Here at MessyNessyChic, we can’t get enough of abandoned places, can we? It’s what brings us all together, a mysterious passion we share that none of us can really quite explain… Today’s story takes us to the incredible setting of an abandoned medieval village located in the region of Basilicata, about [...]
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 [...]
I can’t help but notice a rapidly growing trend happening in architecture that involves giving new life to what may look like the most hopeless of ruins. Ever since I showed you the modern Scottish home built within a 150 year-old abandoned farmhouse, I’ve been hugely intrigued by these modern interventions of age old crumbling [...]
Last night I logged onto my Facebook and saw my newsfeed overwhelmed with status updates of London-based or British friends about how proud they were to be Londoners. The opening ceremony for the Olympics had just aired on television and the Queen had apparently made her entrance by parachuting out of a helicopter with James [...]
Straight out of a Jetsons cartoon, get a load of this Citroen U55 Currus Cityrama tour bus that ruled the roads of Paris in the 1950s. It’s futuristic design was ahead of its time and turned heads wherever it went. No one had seen anything like it before and even today this retro bus looks [...]
St. Tropez, Miami Beach, the Bahamas; imagine if the world’s most glamorous seaside resorts were abandoned overnight; the luxury hotels emptied of their guests and left to slowly decay, the boutiques, bars and nightclubs reclaimed by nature, sunbathers replaced by sea turtles nesting on the deserted beaches and the once vibrant holiday spirit silenced; nothing [...]
I finally found a reason to join Tumblr today. The last few hours of my life have been spent scrolling through the wonderful world of F**k Yeah Abandoned Places. It’s pretty much the place on the internet to satisfy your nostalgic wanderlust cravings thanks to some of the most fascinating derelict photography out there. I [...]
There was the woman who lived in a shoe, the man that lived in an airplane and then there was the guy who had a restaurant in a giant coffee pot. Ernie Landerman converted an abandoned oil grain storage structure into the Coffee Pot Restaurant in 1939 which was situated on the side of highway U.S. [...]
Waiter! There’s a Britney Spears in my coffee! (I knew that was going to be terrible but I
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These are perilous times for loyal fans of Paris burger joints such as the holy church of Blend,
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Okay so this is probably going to be more fun for my New Yaawker readers, who know the
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(c) André Gonçalves The Vatican, the leaning Tower of Pisa, the canals of Venice, Pompeii– you
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1. A Storybook Tower by Friedensreich Hundertwasser AFP/ Timm Schamberger This might look like it
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Everyone needs to find their own café– it’s an identity thing. 1. The Grounds, Alexandria,
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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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Here on MessyNessyChic, we’ve seen quite a few obsolete buildings given new life through
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By ‘un café’. I obviously mean a mocha latte or a glass of rosé, along with a little
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I‘ve been won over by the shoe that’s in every French coquette’s closet. Is it
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There are a few things about me that could be perceived by some as a little off. For example, I
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