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Wasting some time on the internet, I've found out that some bored genius out there created a perfume called "Dead writers"! 

Here's the website: http://bookriot.com/2013/01/29/dead-writers-perfume/ (the article was posted by Amanda Nelson, on January the 29th, 2013).

 

(It contains: "black tea, vetiver, clove, musk, vanilla, heliotrope, and tobacco")

 

 

 

A documentary about the prohibition in the United States and how it has strengthened organized crime.

"J'ai deux amours", Joséphine Baker. (1930)

Josephine Baker. A French actress, dancer and singer. Or simply, a performer. Famous for her banana skirts, her provocative dancing and her hair stick to the sides of her face in soft curls. 

She was born in Missouri,  in 1906, and became a French citizen in 1937. She became a world-known entertainer and the first african-american woman to star in a movie, "Zouzou" (1934).

She became the muse for numerous artists of her time, like Picasso, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dior.

She volunteered to spy for the French Resistance, earning a  French military honour.

 

She died in 1975. She adopted, during her life, 12 children.

Sex symbols of the past: Rodolfo Valentino. Italian dancer and actor, "latin lover" and icon, born in 1895, he died in 1926. 

Among its most famous movies: The Sheik (1921), Blood and Sand (1922), and The Son of the Sheik (1926), but he has been the protagonist of more or less 15 movies, not counting those where he just appears, without any significant role. 

He was the first "divo", the first to have a true cult of his image, thanks to his charm and beauty he soon became a true legend.

Even though he had the fame of latin lover, and he got married during his life, there are many rumours about his homosexuality. 

Gay or not gay, he was definitely gorgeous.

Adorable.

 

Donald Watson (Sep. 2, 1910 – Nov. 16, 2005) founded the first Vegan Society, inventing the word vegan itself in 1944 using by cutting the central letters of the word "vegetarian". Born in a non-vegetarian family, in an environment where the practice of vegetarianism, or veganism, was unknown. He stopped eating meat after witnessing the slaughter procedure, and vegan after learning about how milk was produced.

"It’s the beginning and end of vegetarian. because veganism starts with vegetarianism and carries it through to its logical conclusion."

 He was able to surprise his many critics who claimed that he could not survive on his proposed diet by proving that he would not only survive but survive well and free from the need for doctors’ interventions in his final days. (Wikipedia)

 

"Love makes your soul crawl 

out from its hiding place."

Zora Neale Hurston (died on 1960, born somewhere between 1891 and 1901, since she used to lie about her age). She was a black writer, a rarity in her time, and an anthropologist who collected a great variety of folklore stories, songs, sayings, celebrating black culture and its history.

Her most famous work is 1937's "Their Eyes Were Watching God". 

"But for the National Welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities di think,

and think about something other than the race problem."

 

One of the many fashion creatures of the Twenties was the "Lanvin blue".

This particular shade of blue was used by fashion designer Jeanne Lanvin so often, that it eventually took on her name.

Jeanne Lanvin (1867-1946) was a French designer who strongly influenced the first decade's style, together with more famous names, such as Chanel. The most famous creation was her robes de style:

Now, now... I LOVE this!

What would we wear, everyday, if we travelled back in time to the second decade of the 1900's? 

Here's the dressing code of the Roaring Twenties... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920's music. One word, Jazz...

"Careless Love Blues" (Louis Armstrong & Bessie Smith, 1925)