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I do love a good subculture story and after my third accidental encounter with a stylish Youtube series exploring and defining today’s underexposed lifestyles and communities, I knew it was time to find out who was behind The Subculture Club. A quick look at the credits in small print and a name next to ‘Executive Producer’ [...]
You might have heard of the Teddy Boys, a 1950s rebel youth subculture in Britain characterized by an unlikely style of dress inspired by Edwardian dandies fused with American rock’n roll. They formed gangs from East London to North Kensington and became high profile rebels in the media. But an important sub-subculture of the Teddy [...]
Here on MessyNessyChic, we’ve explored a variety of different and unusual subcultures, from the dandies of the Congo and the Elvis Presley copycats in Switzerland, to the women in Asia going to extremes with their makeup. Today’s subculture that I’d like to introduce to you is one that I think most of us can relate [...]
We all have bad hair days, whether its uncooperative hairlines or one too many rounds with the hair curler, most of us would rather just stay the f**k indoors. But in the city of Monterrey in Mexico, an urban subculture known as the Cholombians have taken most people’s idea of a very, very bad hair [...]
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 [...]
It seems we’re not the only culture obsessed with chasing unattainable ideals of beauty. If you trawl the internet as much as I do, you may have stumbled upon some articles gaining online buzz with titles such as “Asian girls: before & after make-up”. There are now hundreds of these before and after photos online [...]
What are the Swiss known for? Beautiful lakes and great skiing? Multiple languages and offshore accounts? Founders of the Red Cross and being the only country in the heart of Europe to resist fascism? All good points. But did you know that Switzerland was also the birthplace of an extreme rebel youth subculture, based on an [...]
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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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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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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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Shabby chic; it’s a style you either love or hate, but once you get over the copious amounts
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Just look at her. “You know you want me”, is what she’s saying. And it could be
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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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