Thomé de Gamond’s plans for an underwater tunnel between England and France, produced for the World Exposition of 1867. The yellow circles, top left, represent an enormous spiral ramp allowing access to the tunnel from an international artificial island on the Varne sandbank — Source.
In 1925, a new, highly desirable trait was invented. Press reports hailed a new Hollywood star: Count Ludwig von Salm-Hoogstraeten, an Austrian noble and tennis champion, who was rumored to be appearing in a film from the megaproducer Samuel Goldwyn.
“They were the new Charles and Diana, in some ways,” Gary Neville, the former Manchester United player, says in the first episode of “Beckham,” a new, four-part documentary on Netflix. They, of course, are David Beckham, Neville’s friend and onetime teammate, and Beckham’s then girlfriend, Victoria Adams, a.k.a. Posh Spice.
I do not think human beings are the last stage in the evolutionary process. Whatever comes next will be neither simply organic nor simply machinic but will be the result of the increasingly symbiotic relationship between human beings and technology.
If there’s one thing authors love more than procrastinating, it’s praising one another. During the Renaissance, Thomas More’s Utopia got a proto-blurb from Erasmus (“divine wit”), while Shakespeare’s First Folio got one from Ben Jonson (“The wonder of our stage!”).
IT'S A RARE WINTER wonderland here in the English countryside, so Aaron and Lauren Paul's snowy 5-bedroom cabin getaway in Idaho seemed appropriate. The Idaho-raised actor's recently-built home was featured in the March issue of Architectural Digest. Located on a 5-acre lot, the Pauls' rustic-chic getaway is filled with reclaimed barnwood and Montana moss rock ...
In the fashion Editorial HAILEY B., Hailey Bieber channels Princess Diana's sporty chic style--oversized sweatshirts with cycling shorts, socks and trainers, sweatshirts with blazers, bluejeans and cowboy boots, sometimes a baseball cap, but always with devastating style...
“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.” —Keanu Reeves
ONE OF THE fashion world’s most beautiful and enduring platonic love stories was almost never to be. As the story goes, in 1953, while filming Sabrina, Audrey Hepburn paid a visit to French couturier Hubert de Givenchy's studio in Paris to discuss the possibility of his designing the dresses for the film.
English singer, songwriter, and record producer George Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in East Finchley, London in 1963 to a Greek Cypriot restaurateur father and English dancer mother.
THAT'S AMORE: Gigi Hadid & Zayn Malik appear in the May 2016 issue of Vogue US, shot by Mario Testino at Villa Lucia, Naples -- she in gingham, plaids and checks, and he in Saint Laurent, with Camilla Nickerson as fashion editor.
This week’s At Home With features a tiny glimpse into the Californian home of actress and former New Yorker...
Model: Bella Hadid Photographer: Dan Martensen Publication: Elle US Feburary 2016 Stylist: Samira Nasr Hair: Kevin Ryan Make-Up: Ozzy Salvatierra Via: Visual Optimism...
“I love being at home. There’s nothing like England in the summer. Everybody goes gallivanting off to Tuscany and the...
FLIPPING THROUGH SOME OLD files last week, and came across one filled with old tears from magazines, including this one,...
