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There is something about the history of dandyism that seems more intriguing than most of fashion’s yo-yo past– which is probably why I’ve now done three consecutive posts on it. It certainly goes further than the silk handkerchiefs and air-fairy behavior. We’ve looked at the immaculate sartorialism of the Sapeurs in Africa’s poorest slums, uncovered [...]
Modern Man is Afraid of Dandyism. Except for a few… When you think of silk handkerchiefs, pink corduroys, tweed and double-breasted tailoring, would you associate such a style of dress with some of the poorest slums of Africa? What you’re looking at is the phenomenon of Sapeurs, a subculture of extraordinarily dressed dandies from the Congo. In [...]
With that towering head of blue hair, we tend to forget that Marge Simpson has a killer body –
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Classical ballet as we know it today was born within the Paris Opera. In 1930, LIFE magazine staff
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Once upon a time, the American bank building was the biggest, baddest, strongest and shiniest on
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There’s something about this photo story that I dug out of the LIFE archives that makes me
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Sometimes I get a little … well, bored with today’s celebrities. And then I start
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There’s only one way we celebrate Halloween on this website, and that’s by feeding our
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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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For anyone who still dreams of the swinging sixties with its wild child chain-smoking rockstars and
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People heal in so many different ways, but Mark Hogancamp’s story has to be right up there
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I‘m not sure what I expected Iranian street style to look like. Western media is so busy
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Europe is hardly a nocturnal place. Most cities seem to close up shop and tuck into bed by 10pm,
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Another season, another Paris Fashion Week! MessyNessyChic presents a new episode from the web
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What I remember most about Jessica Rabbit is how she was always wearing that provocative red dress,
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When we think of the great surrealists, artists from another era such as Dalì, Frida Kahlo, Marcel
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New York Daily News photographer Marc Hermann loves history and lucky for him, he has the key to
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