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After only five years in Paris, “Genevieve de Milwaukee” has gone from editorial translator at Vogue.fr to Fashion Editor of a children’s luxury fashion shop online. An ex-pat success story…right? Despite maintaining she still loves the French, during those five years, the Milwaukee native has acquired a few funny (or-not-so-funny) stories about the trials and tribulations of an [...]
I stumbled upon a great little website dedicated to collecting old pin-ups and found they had a wonderful archive of La Vie Parisienne, a French erotic magazine that was founded in 1863. And of course with Parisian pin-ups, you know the fashion is going to be pretty fabulous… Also found these sketches by Jacques Le [...]
Remember what French class was like in school? I have to admit I don’t have the best memory of it because it was the easiest class to skip in favor of a second lunch. But what I can recall from when I did attend, is that it was never very relevant to how the French, [...]
“Nadja à Paris” is a short 13-minute film by a French New Wave director, Eric Rohmer, following a young overseas student as she wanders around Paris. Nadja talks us through her daily life on the Left Bank in the first half but later swaps the gentrified Saint-Germain des Près with it’s café intellectuals for Belleville, [...]
La Danse Apache, a highly dramatic dance, was the ‘tango’ of Parisian street culture and was essentially made to look like a physical attack. The dance is said to re-enact a violent “discussion” between a pimp and a prostitute. Immortalized and sensationalized later by Hollywood and Broadway as shown in this film noir made in 1935, it includes [...]
Welcome to the first episode of a new MessyNessyChic video series, Ask a Frenchy! Ever wanted a Frenchy’s opinion on something? How much can they relate to American culture? Do all of them live up to their reputation as romantics? Nessy cornered a few Frenchys to find out. If you have a question you would [...]
It boasts 19 buildings with traditional French features, including a swimming pool, tennis court, stables, a chapel, village hall and acres of land, but only had an asking price of 330,000 Euros. At such an outlandish price, the abandoned hamlet of Courbefy soon caught the attention of the international media, interest sky-rocketed and gave the [...]
Calm yourselves oh ye faithful Paris dreamers, after nearly two years and counting, MessyNessy can report that she is still, hopelessly in love and in no way tired of this city. Okay, so maybe the metro I once thought was so charming smells more like rotting eggs every time I go underground, taxi drivers are [...]
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 [...]
Let’s start with the New Yorkers, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt– most famous for that shot of the sailor kissing the girl in Times Square. The following photos are from a street style series for LIFE magazine in 1944 called ‘Beautiful Girls’… Round 1. NEW YORKERS! ::: Round 2. PARISIANS! Modern fashion photography [...]
In a dark and forgotten storage room of Clifton’s cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, a neon
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Pick a bathing suit this summer that allows you to go back to being a kid again when the only thing
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Appropriately, his name was Dandy Wellington. There’s an exciting photographer on the
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sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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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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I had you at ‘Free Wine & Cheese‘, didn’t I? If you’ve been umming and
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I remember when I first saw it, Avenue Junot, the cobblestone road that winds up to Montmartre
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Sometimes I wonder about things like, who’s going to know how to make a piano in twenty
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Never underestimate how far your little art project can go. In her freshmen year of college, Becky
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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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After only five years in Paris, “Genevieve de Milwaukee” has gone from editorial
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