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Category / Nostalgia

That 70s Home

With stomach-turning wall-papers, nightmarish polyester fabrics and psychadelic nonsense, seventies décor is supposed to be impossibly tacky… isn’t it?! Browsing through these photos however, of 60s & 70s decor from the Encyclopdia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement, I couldn’t help but fall in love with every single overly-textured, madly accessorized, color-blinding décor style. They…

I Dream of a Solex: The Brigitte Bardot Bike

It’s come that time for me in Paris when the charm of the metro has been replaced by lingering unpleasant smells, usually coming from the crazy people trying to approach me almost every time I use it. I think it’s a rite of passage that comes after living in Paris for over a year. And…

The Little Shop that Cared & other Tales

– When I was a little girl, I used to play ‘shop’. I set up my own make-shift retail space, carefully displaying my own clothes and toys around my bedroom and for hours on end I happily traded with imaginary customers. I borrowed the colored bills from our Monopoly game and used a real receipt-printing…

Awkward Family Photos: Then & Now

As yet another year comes to a close and we wonder where the time went, I thought this photostory,”Back to the Future” by Irina Werning couldn’t be more appropriate. It also happens to be that time of year when a lot of us are back home with families, and in the post-Christmas lull we do…

Rediscovering «Les Parisiennes» (and their bottoms)

When I was ten years old or so, my French Aunt gave me a book of illustrations for christmas by an artist called Kiraz. His drawings of Parisian women fascinated me and I often tried to re-create them. They were wonderful and yet so naughty. His women were so stylish, so beautiful, so Parisienne. Eventually…

Parisians in their Parisian Pads

Vanessa, designer, Métro Fourche, 18th arrondissement, Parisienne “Paris wouldn’t be Paris without it’s parisians” says celebrated Franco/Anglo photographer Baudouin, who captures Parisians in their homes all over Paris, along with all their little quirks– or rather, their “je ne sais quoi”. Yann, art director, 10th Arrondissement, Parisien Emmanuelle (no occupation listed), 16th arrondissement, Parisienne Pier Paolo,…

Amelia Earhart’s Forgotten Fashion Line (could probably do with a comeback)

The idea of the celebrity fashion line dates as far back as 1850, when a wildly popular Swedish opera singer named Jenny Lind decided to top up her high-grossing ticket sales with a range of Jenny Lind-branded merchandise, including gloves, bonnets and shawls. Then came silent film star Irene Castle, dubbed the “best-dressed woman in…

She Taught Amelia Earhart to Fly

Without Neta Snook, there may never have been an Amelia Earhart. “The Lone Aviatrix” of Iowa had been shattering the proverbial glass ceiling with her plane long before the Earhart took to the skies, and she did it in a plane she assembled in her parents’ backyard. In other words, Snook was the kind of…

Memoirs of a Playboy Bunny in 1970s New York City

One of Manhattan’s most secretive and infamous nightspots is about to return. Just over thirty years since it closed its glitzy doors– doors that once could only be entered with possession of an exclusive key – the Playboy Club, like it or not, is coming back to New York City. The old club had opened…

Ode to the Lost Blue Train, an Iconic NYC Rooftop Restaurant

Bloomingdale’s flagship store on 59th street is one of Manhattan’s most iconic destinations for glitzy shopping. It was also, until a year ago, home to one of the city’s more peculiar, yet glamorous restaurants. Semi-hidden on the roof, and hardly known to the thousands of daily visitors to the department store, was an opulent train…

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