VOL.01
This rather dramatic photograph of two women being arrested was taken in Chicago, 1922. Dressed in what would look to us like very conservative swimwear today, the women were being arrested for defying a ban on wearing their ‘brief swimsuits’ in public. In the early 1900s, modesty laws were very strict and required most women to [...]
Do boys have any idea what girls have to go through in preparation for a beach holiday? From the extra hours pounding the tarmac to the waxing, bleaching and exfoliating– it’s a bloody nightmare I tell you. Luckily, fashion is in our favor this year. With flattering photographic prints meaning less sit-ups and retro high [...]
So the summer holidays are being booked and now there’s nothing left to do but countdown until that wonderful moment when your alarm clock wakes you up at 5am to catch the flight that was mortgages cheaper than the flight leaving after the sun itself actually rises, because that’s just how evil travel companies get in [...]
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Apparently Keira Knightley and her co-stars improvised their way through this thirteen minute
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Camping on Mars? Seaside fun with views of Saturn? French artist Djuno Tomsni imagines the perfect
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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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If you’re stuck in the city on one of the warmest days of the year, it doesn’t
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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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Sometimes I wonder about things like, who’s going to know how to make a piano in twenty
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Secretly, a lot of us probably believe our lives deserve their own HBO television shows, but it
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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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Beachfront properties custom-built for movie stars and the Hollywood elite, panoramic views from
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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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No, this isn’t the rescue mission of a shipwrecked Porsche 911, this is a picture of a 911
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What a rare treat it would be to receive something like this today. It certainly makes emailing
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The weekend is fast approaching, we’re looking forward to letting our hair down, maybe go
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