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Just hours after Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945, former fashion model and Vogue correspondent, Elizabeth (Lee) Miller was photographed taking a bath in his tub. Miller had been accredited into the U.S. Army as an official war correspondent for Condé Nast Publications and upon the American liberation of Munich, she entered the city with the 45th division and LIFE photographer [...]
Just a photograph of your average Nazi rally in Hitler Germany. Or is it? At the launch of a German army vessel in 1936, attended by Adolf Hitler himself, the crowd was doing their best impression of brainwashed Nazi enthusiasts and saluting Der Fuhrer. But at a closer look, the photograph shows one man who [...]
That’s quite a statement isn’t it? You may have heard rumblings about this back in August 2011 when author Hal Vaughan released his book Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War. But I don’t think we’ve really heard enough about it. I don’t really think we got a firm grip on the fact that today’s [...]
Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men, brought to
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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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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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Just hours after Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945, former fashion model and Vogue
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Attention archive photography lovers! There’s a new Tumblr in town by National Geographic
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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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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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I remember tearing out this advert of Stephanie Seymour in her pastel suit and sticking it on my
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Unbeknownst to the thousands of passengers that pass through the station each day, right under
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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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Calling all Clueless fans! I have absolutely no shame is admitting that I count this 90s time
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