The statuary Gloria Grahame is often featured in film noir pictures as a tarnished beauty with an irresistible sexual allure . During...

Madame Decourcelle is believed to be the first to receive her full taxi licence in April 1908, making her the first woman in history to...

Ezio Tiburzio Anichini (Florence, 24 April 1886 – Florence, 23 September 1948) was an Italian illustrator whose expansive career bridged...

There is something both mythical and magical about Turin. The city is located at the intersection point between two triangles, that of...

Because grandma' scents deserve a second chance. I love powdery scents, they are my absolutely favourite. When thinking of a powdery...

She was considered as the leading Paris dressmaker and influential in couture business. She was the first major female fashion designer...

He was called Bob the Wild for a reason... he has been an open-wheel pioneer, setting numerous speed and victory standards in the early...

While working as a nanny, she took 150,000 photographs. She lived in absolute anonymity and only became famous and exhibited around the...

What People in 1902 thought "women of the future" would look like. In 1902, French artist and manufacturer Albert Bergeret released a set...

The amazing and adventurous life of a model, Hollywood actress, photographer and politician activist. When I first read her biography I...

F. - Hello Maggie, My name is Felix. I. - Hello Felix, nice to meet you. It's an honour to have you here. F. - And it's a pleasure for me...

The successful story behind "Sorelle Fontana Atelier": from Rome to Hollywood and the beginning of the "Made in Italy" concept. Today, I...

"An assertively modern style that ran to symmetry rather than asymmetry, and to the rectilinear rather than the curvilinear; it responded...

The world’s first international sporting event for women took place in Monaco in 1921 The 1921 Women’s Olympiad was held in Monte Carlo...

"To photograph is to put the head, the eye and the heart on the same line of sight" - Henri Cartier-Bresson From the late 1920s to the...

In one of my older posts I talked about the Barnstorming, a form of entertainment in which stunt pilots used to make the craziest things...

“One of the biggest, strangest, maddest films in cinema history” — THE GUARDIAN When I was 13 I loved spending the whole Saturday night...

I never underestimate the power of a picture when this can make me travel back in time, through my memories. Usually, this step back in...