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Muse du Jour: Bollywood Bad Girl Zeenat Aman
It’s 1971, and a smoke-filled set overflows with hippies tapping tabla drums, eyes glazed over…
What We Can Learn from a Bollywood Blockbuster about Periods
“The curse. Bloody Mary. Time of the Month. Shark Week. Code Red. Aunt Flo.” All over…
An American Impressionist in Paris
We think of the Impressionists and we picture landscapes, dreamy outdoor scenes, or Degas and…
We’re Soon to be Dining in an Abandoned Metro Station in Paris
It’s finally happening. A sleeping ghost station in Paris’ revered 6eme arrondissement; just a few steps from…
Rent is Still $1 a Year at the World’s Oldest and Most Beautiful Social Housing Project
If you’re reading this from your high-rise, high-priced city shoebox with each limb touching a…
10 Inspiring Bookshops around the World
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that…
Inside the MessyNessyChic Clubhouse in Paris
I think it’s finally time I showed you around behind the scenes of Messy Nessy Chic. If you follow me on instagram, you probably know that I recently moved out of my bed and into a real office. I’ve spent the last few months obsessively making it my own personal hub in Paris and I […]
Botany and the Forgotten Sexual Revolution
Sex and botany– two words rarely found in the same sentence, but there was a time when…
Phone Home from London’s Original Red Phone Booth
They’re bright red kryptonite for tourists who can rarely resist a photo opportunity with London’s…
Meet the Surfing Girls of Iran
They look like female warriors of a legendary tribe that only descend from the red mountains when…
A Hidden Suffragists Portrait Studio Discovered in a New York Attic
In a forgotten attic, sealed up for decades, the life’s work of a photographer for…