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Category / Nostalgia

Vintage Paris: Cabaret Dancers

Robert Doisneau photographed “The Voluptuous Wanda” in 1953 at a street fair being held at the place Denfert Rocherreau. What’s most interesting about this picture is that it’s bright daylight just outside in contrast to the dark interior where the audience watches her perform. People outside seem to be waiting patiently in line, unfazed by…

How they did it: The Bubble Girl in Paris, 1963

“Just admit that it’s Photoshop”, people tell fashion photographer Melvin Sokolsky when looking at his iconic photograph of model Simone D’Aillencourt landing in a glass bubble on the River Seine in Paris. “But it was 1963,” says Melvin who designed the bubble for the surreal Harper’s Bazaar magazine spring shoot. The plexiglass bubble was hung…

American Retro Time Capsule Homes

Kitschy design is being reproduced so much these days you can’t really tell if something is actually retro anymore. But what about the original retro homes that didn’t change with the fashion and stayed exactly the same since the day they were built when kitschy living was the future? MessyNessy did some digging on Retro…

Bedtime Story: The Legend of Lego

I didn’t expect a great story when I saw this video, all I knew was that my brother and I played a lot of LEGO when we were kids and that was reason enough to click on it. Whether or not you played with LEGO as a child, this is a heartwarming (bedtime) story of…

15 Fashion Trends of the Past that Today’s Designers haven’t Copied … Yet

Fashion tends to repeat itself … a lot. In fact sometimes it’s seems that is all it does is ‘borrow’ from another decade, another era. But let’s take a gander at some very interesting styles that today’s designers haven’t yet sent down the catwalk…. 1. Embroidered Knee Highs Knee highs were like, so hot in…

Peep these Panoramic Prints: Bathing Girls of the 1920s

I found these incredible panoramic photographs from the roaring twenties which are just fascinating to observe close up, girl by girl, one bizarre bathing costume after another. Even better, these prints are available to buy in formats as large as 44″ x 227″. How amazing would these be in an entrance hallway?! CLICK ON IMAGES…

Ruins of Detroit: Before & After

I keep coming back to Detroit. It’s bizarre how photogenic the downfall of America’s industrial powerhouse can be. However there’s an eerie and unwanted sense of responsibility to be felt when looking through these before & after photographs of Detroit taken in 1973 and 2010 by the same photographer, Dave Jordano. I could browse through endless…

Meet the Girl from Ohio who Became a Star in 1960s Paris

America’s loss is France’s gain. I’ve had Nancy Holloway playing on repeat this week. Nancy who? Oh, only one of the biggest names in mid-century French pop culture; an idol of the Yé-yé music craze. She’s remembered in France as “la Perle Noir”, the ‘black pearl’ of the sixties with a distinctly American accent that…

The Greatest Movie Starring Mick Jagger, Dali, and Orson Welles That Never Got Made

Once a month at a Parisian café near the Place de la Bastille, you can find a peculiar crowd of characters trying to squeeze into the local bar du quartier, lining up feverishly to meet a silver-haired man, dressed in all-black and promising to give them a tarot reading. You could be easily forgiven for dismissing the scene as…
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