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Category / Fashion for Dummies

Beauty School Dropout

Today, the internet bus driver is dropping us off at the Helena Rubinstein beauty school, circa 1940-something. This might sound like a lovely, pink and fluffy sort of place, but as you’ll soon realise, beauty school is anything but. Photographs by Nina Leen, fished out from one of my favourite places on the net, the…

Fashion 4 Dummies: Jon Snow’s Fur Collection, Emojis and 19th Century Fashion Blogging

You didn’t expect Paris fashion week to go by without MessyNessy getting in on the action, did ya? Nessy and her buddy @GirlMeetsWhirl went down to the Grand Palais for the Chloé show to get a better understanding of the street style and ‘fashionista’ culture that has become such an integral part of fashion week. So here it…

The Veteran Chanel Window Dresser who opened the Oddest Little Art Gallery in Paris

I once read somewhere that if you were to spend eight seconds in front of every piece of artwork in the Louvre’s collection it would take one year to see everything. I believe the same rule holds true for Station Arret Facultatif. It’s as if a tornado swept through Paris and dumped the best of the…

The Babes of Sydney’s Criminal Past

Femme Fatales and Devious Divas were the ruling forces of Sydney’s underbelly during the 1920’s. These convicted ladies knew how to get into trouble in the most fashionable ways possible. Posing for their mug shots, they came dressed to the nines in furs, pearls, stylish hats and sassy drop-waist frocks. Even if they were being…

My Portuguese Basket Bag

By now I think you know I’m not one of those websites hawking any old products and designer gear at you all the time. It takes something very unique; something that strikes a nostalgic chord within for Nessy to get into consumer mode and share a brand with you. In fact if I’m honest on this one, almost too good to…

Fashionable Grandpas of New York

This is why instagram is awesome: an account dedicated entirely to seeking out the fabulous ‘fashion grandpas’ of NYC, started by young Fashion PR exec, Christina Belchere, who says her own style of dressing has even been influenced by the grandpas she snaps. “@FashionGrandpas inspires my personal style, the style advice is real & no joke. Colors like mustard,…

The Amazing All-in-One Breakaway Dress, 1944

Every girl likes to have options, especially when it comes to dresses; you just never know when you’re going to need to rip off that ball gown and take a spontaneous dip in the pool– a common predicament we can clearly all relate to. Here’s a design for the most indecisive of ladies, plucked straight out…

The Braided Rapunzels of Africa & other Tribal Trends

My early weekday nights are typically spent wandering the depths of Pinterest. On this occasion, I found a rather hypnotising pin board called Fashion Around the World, where I discovered these incredible African Rapunzels… The hairstyle currently making you do a double-take is known as Eembuvi Braids, worn by women of the Mbalantu tribes from the Namibia. It’s…

And now, Silk Scarves inspired by Vintage Fruit Wrappers

You might have seen me complaining on this website before about why food packaging doesn’t look like this anymore. Beautiful vintage food labels oozing with creativity, attractive typography and artistic design– it’s an increasingly lost art. But as it turns out, someone else also happens to enjoy the art of vintage food labelling so much…

There’s Something about Moffy

Meet Moffy. She recently did her first-ever magazine shoot for POP magazine, who put her on their front cover and called her ‘the face’. “Sounds like another meaningless fashion mag story title to me!” says the photographer who shot her for the story. It probably is meaningless to put labels on Moffy and make all…

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