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Comments Off on Down At The Nightclub – Billy Monk’s Sixties Photos
Although he never really set out to Billy Monk ended up unintentionally cataloguing the seedy underbelly of 1960s life in Cape Town in a series of excellent photographs taken over a two year period from 1967 onwards. His intention was to boost his income as a...
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Comments Off on Bivolino – The Shirt Locker
We’ve not done many posts on bespoke Belgian shirtmakers thus far, in fact to be honest we’ve not done any posts on bespoke Belgian shirtmakers but hey cats and kittens, that’s all about to change as we take a look at Belgium’s number one manufacturer...
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Comments Off on Blow Up – Quasar Khanh’s Inflatable Furniture
Perhaps Quasar Khanh has not had the recognition he deserves but as the inventor of inflatable furniture we feel he should be up there in the pantheon of great designers and being as we’ve not featured any inventors yet on VoEA this seems to be a very...
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Comments Off on Kitsch Kitchen Ads
Back now to a time when fondue parties were all the rage, when you couldn’t cross the road without a neighbour insisting on inviting you to their Tupperware party and of course the invention of the ‘greatest cooking discovery since fire’ – the...
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Comments Off on We’ve got it Covered – GQ through the Ages
We’re not really the kind of chaps who subscribe to men’s magazines but, hey, if they’re lying around in a dentist’s waiting room we’ll have a crafty scan through to see what we’re missing out on. To get an idea of which men were considered cool...
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Comments Off on On The Hemline – Miniskirt Protests
The Miniskirt first emerged on the catwalk in 1964 and was reputedly designed by the pen of Mary Quant. She named it after her favourite car and, whilst probably not realising the influence it would have at the time, caused a revolution in fashion and also...
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Comments Off on Pearl’s Psychedelic Porsche – Janis Joplin’s Car
Janis Joplin’s musical career was brief although without doubt undeniably influential but it was her unfortunate inability to kick the habit that lead to her untimely death at the age of 27 through a heroin overdose a mere sixteen days after another icon of...
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Comments Off on Gloria Steinem – Pop Art Protests
As one of the leading American feminists since the early 1960s Gloria Steinem has had a long, varied and controversial career as a writer and political activist that has seen her employed as an ‘undercover’ Playboy bunny, lobby as a pro-abortion...
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Comments Off on The Drying Art of Tea Towels
Some people buy tea towels with their favourite band, television show or product printed on them and hang them up on the wall to show their loyalty. Others purchase them as gifts or souvenirs to remind themselves (and others) of the happy time they spent at...
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Comments Off on Radical Shades Man – Space Age Sunglasses
Hey cats and kittens. Put away your Polaroids, run over your Ray Bans, offload your Oakleys and check out some properly radical sunglasses from a time when the only limitation to designs was imagination and it didn’t even matter if you couldn’t quite see...
