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Skipper was launched by Mattel in 1964 as Barbie’s kid sister. Ten years later, Mattel decided that it was about time Skipper hit puberty like the rest of us. That is, if anyone else experienced puberty by rotating their left arm and voila: boobs! In 1975, ‘Growing up Skipper’ led to controversy in the media [...]
For my more mature readers, do excuse the title of this post, I’m being heavily sarcastic. Behold, the images featuring mature models from the “Forever Love” editorial by Tom Ford as guest editor to the December/January issue of French Vogue. While I initially found it a tad uncomfortable browsing through these photographs (which I’m [...]
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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I had you at ‘Free Wine & Cheese‘, didn’t I? If you’ve been umming and
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I remember when I first saw it, Avenue Junot, the cobblestone road that winds up to Montmartre
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After only five years in Paris, “Genevieve de Milwaukee” has gone from editorial
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Just hours after Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945, former fashion model and Vogue
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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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What is more enchanting than an artist’s studio? When these painters, sculptors and creators
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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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