13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. XI)

1. Possibly the Coolest Swimming Pool in the World Once a quarry in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, the deeper part of the pool’s stairs, which once served as an access road for vehicles to enter and exit the quarry, were overlaid with gunite to create an easy entrance to the pool and to close off…

Horse Meat, Sexual Favors & North Korean Style: Paris Fashion Week

Another season, another Paris Fashion Week! Nessy and her pal Kath couldn’t resist getting in on the action, so off we went to ask some fashionistas more of those hard-hitting questions… Here it is, a brand new episode of Fashion for Dummies 101 at Paris Fashion Week: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cy3NGnffgY] ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: .

Hepburn in 1960s Paris

The other night I tucked myself up in bed and watched Funny Face, the 1957 Gershwin musical starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. New-York fashion photographer, played by Astaire, sets out to find a “new face” for the high fashion magazine Quality and soon enough discovers Audrey Hepburn working as a bookstore clerk in Greenwich village,…

A Guide to Dealing with Negative Comments from Internet Trolls

Although so many of you wonderful readers leave amazing and encouraging comments on this space, occasionally there’s someone out there that leaves a negative one and it seems to have the power to grab my attention more than any other comment and consume and torment my soul … or at least bug me for a…

Alberobello: Staying in an Italian Hobbit Town

The Vatican, the leaning Tower of Pisa, the canals of Venice, Pompeii– you might think you’ve seen all Italy has to offer already, but have you heard about the town built with a style of architecture so old, it predates written Italian history? Welcome to Alberobello, a small town with 11,000 inhabitants in Puglia (in…

The Rotting Rothschild Mansion in Paris

The Rothschilds are known as one of the greatest European banking dynasties ever established, amassing the largest private fortune in modern history. The family is less well-known for anything to do with squalor, ruin or decay. But just 5 miles from the Notre-Dame, beyond the lush green lawn of the Edmond de Rothschild park, standing defiantly behind a thick wall of…

American Cowgirls of the 1940s

This post is pretty much the result of me getting lost in the LIFE magazine archives again and coming across a bunch of mostly unpublished photographs of cowgirls that were too good not to share. These snaps are a melange of photo stories by LIFE photographers, Nina Leen, Peter Stackpole and Cornell Capa between 1947-48 at the…

Women Wear High Heels Because We Are Idiots, Says History

High heels were not originally intended to be worn by women. In fact, the coveted red-soled Christian Louboutin shoes were famously inspired by a French royal and notable trendsetter of the high heel, King Louis XIV of France. He passed a law ensuring only members of his court could wear the red-soled heels he sported, making it…

Vintage Muse du Jour: Anna Karina

Anna Karina arrived in Paris at the age of seventeen from Denmark. She spoke no French and performed on the streets for money. One day, while sitting at the famous Café Deux Margots on the boulevard Saint-Germain, she was discovered by an advertising agent who asked her to do some photos. She would soon find…

Trailer Park Hotels (without the Trash)

No American road trip would be complete without a stop at a trailer park palace! So for those with a ‘kitsch itch’ to scratch (note to self: google and see if I just coined ‘kitsch itch’), Nessy has picked out three hotels in the great ol’ US of A for the ultimate vintage (and dare…