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Apparently Keira Knightley and her co-stars improvised their way through this thirteen minute short, making their lines up as they went along. The film celebrates 100 years for the French luxury brand, looking back at Coco’s first pret-a-porter shop in Deauville that was financed by her lover at the time, Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel. I’m not [...]
Today I thought we could make a quick stop at Villa Pausa on the French Riviera, the former residence of none other than Coco Chanel, between 1929 to 1953. Last year it was snapped up by an anonymous buyer for a cool $50 million through Sotheby’s realty. I stumbled across their photographs of the property [...]
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 [...]
Female Dandyism isn’t just about donning a Pair of Brogues… In her outfits made out of animal flesh, the gimp masks and alien egg-vessels (that thing she hatched from during her 2011 Grammy performance), you wouldn’t think to describe Lady Gaga as a dandy. But if you take a closer look, you’ll discover that much [...]
Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men, brought to
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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon
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Apparently Keira Knightley and her co-stars improvised their way through this thirteen minute
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This weekend, my boyfriend pulled out not one, not two but three grays he noticed glistening in the
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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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Today I thought we could make a quick stop at Villa Pausa on the French Riviera, the former
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That pink suit! It is by far the most dapper suit I’ve ever seen on a man (Robert Redford
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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 had always thought Sophia’s disapproving look in this iconic photograph taken by Delmar
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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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Attention archive photography lovers! There’s a new Tumblr in town by National Geographic
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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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As if Google Street View wasn’t already cool enough, allowing you to virtually be in two
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