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In the summer of 1965, riots broke out in the Watts neighborhood of southern Los Angeles. Over a six-day period, 34 people were killed, 1,032 injured and over 3,438 arrests were made. In 1966, LIFE magazine revisited the site of the worst riots America had ever seen in its history. The photo essay depicting the [...]
Cosmopolitan is and always has been provocative women’s magazine. I remember reading it as a curious teenager, trying to fold over half the page I was looking at so the person next to me wouldn’t see. But browsing through the Old Magazine Shop‘s vintage copies of the mag, I found myself quite surprised, sometimes even [...]
Does anyone else find fashion more special when it’s illustrated? I think it brings out that childish innocence of interest in fashion before we ever worried about what it might do for our figures. Lovingly scanned one by one from The Art of Vogue Covers by South African blogger MissMoss, these art deco Vogue illustrations [...]
I stumbled across these vintage American nudie magazine and couldn’t help feel a little perplexed by the way the word ‘French’ had been slapped all over the cover art as if it was some specially imported brand of sex. Russians do Vodka, the Spanish do bullfighting and the French do sex. Apparently. So what I [...]
I stumbled upon something pretty peculiar today. This is an excerpt from a 1959 issue of Girl Watcher magazine. [Illustration 1] Considered one of the ‘creepiest and most perverted’ magazines of its day, the publication promoted randomly stalking and ‘collecting’ women as a hobby. For example, I plucked this little gem of a sentence from [...]
Beautiful Boys This is 19-year-old Australian model, Andrej Pejic. Andrej is a male model. Yes, that’s right, you read me correctly. Signed to Storm modelling agency since last February, this 6″2, blond hair and blue-eyed beautiful boy is the latest up and coming model to pioneer the growing androgynous trend in the fashion industry. In [...]
sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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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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Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina
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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‘m just discovering I have a bit of a thing for vintage envelopes– I think it’s the
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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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The other night I tucked myself up in bed and watched Funny Face, the 1957 Gershwin musical
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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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I remember tearing out this advert of Stephanie Seymour in her pastel suit and sticking it on my
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