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Image via Jane Sanders Up in that impressive glass dome is where the projectionist would have originally sat in the late 1960s, when a fleet of seven of these custom mobile cinema units toured Britain, promoting modern production techniques to the industry. Britain’s then Minister of Technology, Tony Ben commissioned the customised Bedford SB buses to [...]
Anna Karina arrived in Paris at the age of seventeen from Denmark. She spoke no French and performed on the streets for money. One day, while sitting at the famous Café Deux Margots on the boulevard Saint-Germain, she was discovered by an advertising agent who asked her to do some photos. She would soon find [...]
Long before today’s design festivals were exhibiting the latest prototypes for modern family homes featuring mechanised floors and furniture that emerge from walls and ceilings at the touch of a button, Mickey, Daffy and Goofy were already a step ahead. Mickey’s Trailer is a 1938 animated short film produced by Walt Disney featuring Mickey’s highly [...]
Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives [...]
I remember tearing out this advert of Stephanie Seymour in her pastel suit and sticking it on my bedroom wall. That was the 90s, when Versace and its supermodels ruled pop culture. Gianni Versace once said, ”I don’t understand those who are professionally cultured. I like pop culture, the culture that doesn’t need to show off.” [...]
You might have heard of the Teddy Boys, a 1950s rebel youth subculture in Britain characterized by an unlikely style of dress inspired by Edwardian dandies fused with American rock’n roll. They formed gangs from East London to North Kensington and became high profile rebels in the media. But an important sub-subculture of the Teddy [...]
Thomas Jorion has been exploring abandoned buildings since he was a child and he’s one of those lucky people who managed to make a career out of it. His series, Forgotten Palaces, is mostly comprised of extraordinary villas taken in northern Italy which have been left to decay for a variety of reasons from financial ruin and [...]
The Ritz Hotel in Paris is arguably a museum in itself with all the clandestine history that went on behind those doors, but it turns out the hotel has been hiding one very expensive piece of art history in particular all these years– not in a dusty attic but in Coco Chanel’s former suite no [...]
Ski season is upon us and naturally it’s all about the sport, and not at all about getting that perfect Facebook profile picture of yourself looking effortlessly stylish on the slopes. No siree! Just like these fine young folks who took a trip to Sun Valley, Idaho in 1946, we’re all about the best [...]
They say that when Frida loved, she loved hard and passionately. There’s no question that hers and Diego Rivera’s union was unconventional. He, the husband who flaunted the diagnosis of his doctor that declared him “unfit for monogamy,” and her, the volatile, often obsessive but equally adulterous wife. Ironically, the footage you are about to see [...]
They met in Paris in 1932. Both already married, American novelist Henry Miller and Cuban diarist
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When she died, her husband Diego Rivera ordered her clothes be locked up for 15 years. When Diego
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Sometimes you really think you know the internet. You learn how to research the furthest corners of
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When in Paris, you might as well do things the right way; drink at the bistros of the belle
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The woman who practically invented the romantic comedy, the woman who brought us Sleepless in
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No matter how much I like to deny it, I’m a sucker for romantic stuff like this. Sophie
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Fifty years too early, here I am dreaming about my retirement; sleepy days, rich foods, peaceful
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This has happened to me [the picture above is a slight, perhaps huge exaggeration but whatever].
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I‘ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The problem is however, when you try to
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You’ve probably clicked on this article because at one point or another, you’ve feared
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As yet another year comes to a close and we wonder where the time went, I thought this photostory
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Two male buddies of mine recently had the unfortunate experience of being blindsided by the fairer
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Spectators watch quietly, listening to the dragging of tango feet on the stone quai. Beautiful
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Summer has arrived here in Paris, which means, so have the American girls. For twenty-something
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I did the unthinkable last weekend. I organised a double date. Oh the horror I experienced, I
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