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Trust Brooklyn Hipsters to make Party Balloons Cool Again

They’re calling it balloon craft, “a modern, fresh and cool” take-over of the classic kid’s party balloon. A young father from Williamsburg, NY, Robert Moy founded the Brooklyn Balloon Company in 2012 after a few impromptu performances at friends’ kids parties and was urged to start a business. Three years later, he has a following of…

The Ethiopian Fashion Tribe that turns Nature into Haute Couture

Remember when you tried to get creative and bejewel your jean shorts or decorate your new tennis shoes with a Sharpie pen? Well this is not that. In the Omo Valley of southern Ethiopia, the Surma and Mursi people don’t have glue guns, sewing machines, sequins or Sharpies to accessorise with. Inspired by the tools and textiles…

And Now, the Andy Warhol of Home Baking

She will bake your favourite tv show, sugarcoat your best instagrams, ice your most popular emoticon and add sprinkles to your favourite street style look. Lindsey Gazel is baking’s answer to pop art; a modern Andy Warhol if you like, where cookies are her canvas. And here’s some of her best work… On a scale of 1…

What Children Think of Models in Fashion Campaigns

Trust kids to tell it like it is— and the unapologetic artist Yolanda Domingues to help them tell it. The Spanish artist’s new project, Niños vs. Moda called upon a group of 8 year-old school children to describe their impressions of real multi-million dollar campaigns created by some of the world’s leading fashion houses. An astute…

What they Wore to the Vanderbilt Ball: Inside the Photo Album

Like they do at prom, the guests of the 1883 Vanderbilt fancy dress ball each had the opportunity to have their photo taken at the event of the year, or perhaps the century. All of New York’s elite society turned up at the Fifth Avenue mega mansion dressed as pirates, goths, animals, gypsies and other inventive…

Congo High, Class of ’72

I still cringe when I look back (usually against my will) at my high school yearbook pictures. It’s probably because I can see how utterly lost I was at that age, in every sense of the word. But these school portraits, taken at a Protestant secondary school in Mbandaka, Congo in 1972, are in another league from your…

The Met Museum has a Serious Shoe Fetish

If you think you or a girlfriend have an out of control shoe collection, check out the Museum of Metropolitan Art and think again. Comprised of more than 5,000 examples, the Met’s permanent collection of shoes should probably have their own museum. Boasting some incredibly rare and unusual styles from around the world and dating from the fourteenth…

10 Technicolor Vintage Dreamcoats to make a Show-Stopping Entrance

I‘ve been discovering the treasure trove that is Etsy for vintage shopping. My hunt for technicolor dream coats all started when I randomly typed the word “kilim” into the search bar and some magical vintage pieces popped up. I kept digging for more and I’ve picked out some of my favourite one-of-a-kind dream jackets to make that…

The 1920s College Kids and the Fur “Pimp Coat” Craze

Man has worn fur since he was living in a cave, but there’s something about this photograph and the fresh-faced young men, all “pimped-out” in full-length fur that stopped me in my tracks. I had stumbled upon a snapshot of a moment in fashion history when American Ivy league-ers and young college undergrads began sporting…

I Have this Thing with Floors: An Instagram Dedicated Entirely to Looking Down

Living in Europe, we’re a little spoilt for beautiful mosaic/ tiled flooring found in cafés, museums and historic buildings, and of course here in Paris, with all its charming architecture, the eye is almost trained to constantly look up. But a newly discovered instagram account has reminded me just how much I’m forgetting to do one very important…

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