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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 [...]
This lovely young lady snapped in the 1930s is dressed to celebrate the beginning of harvest in the fertile Rio Grand Delta. Her amazing gown is made entirely from grapefruit peels and appeared in an issue of National Geographic. So what have we learned? A fruit dress might stink up your closet but at least [...]
Wedding season is upon us. I know this because there are currently at least five brides-t0-be sharing every single disastrous moment that occurs in the build up to their weddings on my Facebook newsfeed. The closer they get to their big day, the more volatile the status updates become. And so to commemorate this joyous [...]
Disclaimer: This is a not a very serious article about the fashion at Cannes this year. Do not expect any professional fashion critique on any level, nor anything particularly constructive to say about the outfits seen here. Also if I come across jealous or obnoxious in regards to actress Eva Longoria, it’s possible that I [...]
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Apparently Keira Knightley and her co-stars improvised their way through this thirteen minute
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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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Anna Karina arrived in Paris at the age of seventeen from Denmark. She spoke no French and
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Oscar night is here and over the next few days we’re going to be inundated with photographs
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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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You might have heard of the Teddy Boys, a 1950s rebel youth subculture in Britain characterized by
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