Messy Nessy Chic

How one woman used paint as feminine revenge...

She's the Overlooked Female Caravaggio Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1614- 1620, oil on canvas, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy The story has everything a good drama needs: religion, s*x, and murder. Judith was a…

Muse du Jour

She Played the World's Most Unappreciated Music, but looked Fabulous Doing it Yvette in 1977. ©Getty Images. First things first: it's not like we hate the accordion. We like it on the occasional metro platform, and we love to hear it in a distant summer breeze by the Seine.…

Coming soon: the blockbusters patriarchy missed

Movie Pitches for Women the World Forgot Their stories have been buried in the past, eclipsed by others who perhaps achieved more or possessed qualities the world deemed more important. But today, we're meeting a few muses that fell down…

For the con woman, social limitations are merely another angle to work the hustle.

Historical Candidates for the Real-Life Carmen San Diego The nefarious world of conning has long been considered a boy’s club. Even when you google “biggest con artists in the world,” men’s names overwhelmingly dominate the search. Historically, women were…

Miniature art du jour:

Stop Everything, Check Out this Real-Life Brambly Hedge Treehouse Combine our love of treehouses with our love of teeny tiny stuff and you've got our undivided attention. Throughout winter, there's been one Instagram account that's had us hanging on its every post.…

Sharing one of my favourite but most overlooked women in history...

Even With a Name Like Aloha Wanderwell, You've Probably Never Heard of Her You could say she was the female Indiana Jones, except of course, Indie was a fictional character, and Aloha Wanderwell was very much the real deal. After landing a seaplane on an unexplored stretch…

More stylish than sun block!

If F***y Packs made a comeback, surely the Parasol Can Too For the average person, stepping out with an elegant sun parasol in western society today would probably feel like stepping out in cosplay. You might as well be wearing a corset too. Sadly, not since…

The disco era: she wore it, painted it, and made it shimmer

Donna Summer is the Overlooked Style Icon that We Need to Get our Sparkle Back The late, great Donna Summer was so much more than a disco queen. Did you know she was a painter too? But we'll get to that in a moment. Donna began her musical career in high school in the late…

Because nothing says 'let's talk' like a seat designed for whispering secrets and dodging chaperones

The Secret History of the Conversation Chair It's taken many names, shapes and forms over the centuries – the conversation chair, the courting bench, a tête-à-tête, a chaperone chair, the vis-à-vis, gossip chair or the indiscret. Considered the…