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Don’t remember seeing that other-wordly staircase or a never-ending library when you visited Versailles on your last trip to Paris? Are there secret parts of the palace they’re hiding from us? Go on, click on the images for a closer look if you’re not sure… Photographer Jean Francois Rauzier says he waited 25 years [...]
Okay so this might be borderline/ highly inappropriate but somehow manages to get away with sending an important message about a pretty shocking political stance on what constitutes legitimate rape in the United States. Parody acted, written and produced by Laura Napoli ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO BE INTERESTED IN: .
Here’s a little story for you this morning: In the year 1898, in one of the many mews just off Cromwell Road, Kensington, lived Mr Hardy, who was a noted horserider & trainer, being one of the three men who had succeeded in riding the “French Rocking Horse”. This was a device used by the [...]
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 [...]
If you’re going to follow my blog, you should probably know that my passions stretch further than all things French to encompass such interests as zombies, abandoned buildings and ofcourse sharks! And what’s this week? Surely you must know it’s SHARK WEEK! In its 25th year, the Discovery Channel will air the annual week-long series of feature television [...]
This image of Barbie’s proportions on an actual human being has been floating around Twitter recently attracting renewed criticism of Barbie’s unrealistic body. The thing is, I was kind of obsessed with Barbie myself. I played for hours with those six-inch pieces of plastic, creating unnecessary drama with Ken and cruising around my bathroom in [...]
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 [...]
1. Instasham via here A note from Nessy: Hey guys, you’ll have to forgive I’m feeling a little under the weather this week. Remember how I mentioned that I broke both my arms the other week and I said that just going to get on with it and be brave? Well … I take it [...]
I lived in London for just over 25 years and I have to admit, I never really understood what was the damn deal with the City of London. And it was even harder to explain to non-Londoners when they asked… because even Londoners are confused about. Here is a wonderfully frank, semi-sarcastic explanation for dummies [...]
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 [...]
Pick a bathing suit this summer that allows you to go back to being a kid again when the only thing
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Appropriately, his name was Dandy Wellington. There’s an exciting photographer on the
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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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The first post seems to have tickled your fancy, so over the past month I’ve been collecting
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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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It all started when I saw a beetroot salad Caprese and thought how much it reminded me of my
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Another season, another Paris Fashion Week! Nessy and her pal Kath couldn’t resist getting
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High heels were not originally intended to be worn by women. In fact, the coveted red-soled
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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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I do love a good subculture story and after my third accidental encounter with a stylish Youtube
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I remember tearing out this advert of Stephanie Seymour in her pastel suit and sticking it on my
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“Switcheroo” is an ongoing series by Canadian photographer Hana Pesut, as she travels
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