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The Hope Diamond is a large 45.52 carat, deep blue diamond, currently housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.
The diamond is legendary for the curse it supposedly puts on whoever possesses it. The Hope Diamond appears to be a brilliant blue to the naked eye because of trace amounts of boron within the diamond. The […]
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Christian Dior was an influential French fashion designer, probably best known as the founder of one of the world’s top fashion houses Dior. He was born in Granville, Normandy, a seaside town off the coast of France. Dior flagship boutiques are found in Paris, Milan, Rome, London, New York, Beverly Hills, Tokyo, Osaka, Hong Kong, […]
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The Wang Jingwei Government was a government under the leadership of Wang Jingwei in the Republic of China, set up by the Empire of Japan in March 1940. It is also sometimes called the Nanjing Nationalist Government.
The Wang Jingwei Government was one of several puppet states of the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), […]
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Claudia Schiffer
Claudia Schiffer (born August 25, 1970) is a German supermodel and actress, who reached the height of her popularity during the 1990s.
Schiffer is one of the world’s most successful supermodels, appearing on over 500 magazine covers and is thought to be one of the wealthiest German women of her time, with Forbes estimating […]
A Return to That Drop-Dead Year 1960 - New York Times
“I’M from Bay Ridge. We have manners,” Peggy, the pony-tailed secretary, scolds the colleague who has just propositioned her in “Mad Men,” the new drama on the cable channel AMC.
Do Peggy’s colleagues at Sterling Cooper, the turbo-powered advertising agency where she works, fall a […]
Short and Sweet | Fashion | Trends in Japan
The first miniskirt craze, which started back in the 1960s, was sparked by the British model Twiggy. In subsequent miniskirt booms, this fashion item has had a somewhat retro feel.
Miniskirts came back into vogue for a time in the 1980s and again in the 1990s. And […]
Plan59 :: Vintage Ads :: Mid-Century Modern :: Amado Gonzalez, 1955
Frozen Foods Mean Finer Living | Crown Zellerbach, 1955 | Amado Gonzalez
Lovely collection of many more ads of the 1950s are available at Plan59. Take a look.
1950s / A Century of Chairs - Design Museum Exhibition London : Digital Design Museum
After the horror of World War II, people longed for a warmer, organic aesthetic of earthy colours and natural materials such as wood.
The design champions of this organic modernism - such as Charles and Ray Eames, Harry Bertoia and Eero […]
BBC - Homes - Design - 1950s
The 1950s were the age of the consumer. The post-war boom brought massive changes in the home; it was out with the old and in with the new.
Open-plan living was introduced, and the fitted kitchen with its brand new appliances was the housewife’s domain.
The 1960s Mini Skirt Fashion History - Mary Quant
Talent was the prerequisite to success in the 1960s. For the first time ever in any fashion era, the young became the leaders of fashion. They led with new and radically innovative fashion styles, with little girl woman androgynous looks for women that swept away the […]
