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An Intimate Look inside a 1950s Tokyo Bath House

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10 Vintage Trailers up For Sale just in time for a Summer Road Trip

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My Parisian Studio in Tokyo, Japan

4 days ago

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Spring Break in the 1980s: Big Hair, Tiny Swimwear

5 days ago

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If Wes Anderson had an Online Store, it would Probably look Something like This

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So this is where Johnny Depp does his Shopping

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Homage to the Man behind the Mountain

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This Amazing Technicolor Castle has been Abandoned for more than 20 Years

Here on this corner of the internet, we see a lot of abandoned places. For some of them, we can even understand how circumstances might have led their abandonment. This however, is a head-in-hands kind of moment. The Castello di Sammez...

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Victorian Prudes and their Bizarre Beachside Bathing Machines

Picture that moment when you finally get to the beach after a long winter, excitedly peel off your clothes, run madly towards the water and crash into the salty waves without a care in the world... This is not that. If you were a ...

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Working Out with Marilyn Monroe

61,512 1st April, 2014

It's pretty neat when you come across rare photos of one of the most iconic and recognisable faces in history, and it doesn't get much more rare and interesting than Marilyn Monroe herself, lifti...

studentsinparis

Living the Bohemian Student Dream in 1960s Paris

5,777 21st March, 2014

I love to find a good Paris photo story that I haven't seen before, and this one that I found buried in the LIFE archives this morning is a quite the treat. Veteran photographer for the magazine L...

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The First Monokini: Trying to make the Topless Swimsuit happen in 1964

10,254 5th March, 2014

When we think of the monokini today, we picture those fiddly one-piece swimsuits that give you awkward tan lines, popularised by the Kardashian and Hilton sisters. But the first monokini was in fact...

This Hermès Collection circa 1952 needs a Comeback

6,827 27th February, 2014

Paris fashion week has kicked off over here and the style world is abuzz with what trends we'll be wearing two seasons from now. So while they're worrying about all that, trust Messy Nessy to still ...

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A Good Old Southern Weekend, 1951

756 21st February, 2014

We've all had a weekend like this once in our lives, whether it was deep in the fried green tomato south of USA or an hour's drive outside the city in French Brie country. It's a soul-lifting kind o...

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