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The book “Mirror of Beautiful Women of the Pleasure Quarters” depicts the daytime activities of the courtesans such as reading, arranging flowers, ...

In the series “Beauties of the Yoshiwara as Six Floral Immortals”, the artist Chôbunsai Eishi compares each courtesan to a beautiful flower.

The 'Green Houses', or the pleasure houses, with the notable courtesans, became an integral part of Japanese life in the Edo period. “A Mirror of B...

The 'Green Houses', or the pleasure houses, with the notable courtesans, became an integral part of Japanese life in the Edo period. “A Mirror of B...

The 'Green Houses', or the pleasure houses, with the notable courtesans, became an integral part of Japanese life in the Edo period. “A Mirror of B...

The 'Green Houses', or the pleasure houses, with the notable courtesans, became an integral part of Japanese life in the Edo period. “A Mirror of B...

The 'Green Houses', or the pleasure houses, with the notable courtesans, became an integral part of Japanese life in the Edo period. “A Mirror of B...

Books in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1867) were almost exclusively produced by woodblock printing, and printed on Japanese paper and side‐sti...

Magic is a subject of fascination even for the British monarch. The most famous member of the Magic Circle is in fact Prince Charles who joined the...

The world’s first full-length novel is said to be the Tale of Genji written by the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu around 1000 A.D, who served...

Released 15th February 1950, the film Cinderella was a huge gamble for the Disney studio that was heavily in debt and was their last ditch effort t...

Painted by Claude Monet while on vacation with his future wife soon after having a baby boy together. Painted prior to his recognition as an artist...

By the French painter, Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), the unidentified girl is portrayed in profile, reading a little book. The text not being ...

An acronym is a form of abbreviation of several words in such a way that the abbreviation itself forms a pronounceable word. An example of an acron...

This photo from 15th September 1954 was to promote the film The Seven Year Itch. The filming took place at 1am as thousands of fans watched Marilyn...

Monroe often referred to Marilyn Monroe in the third person, with an inner switch turning “Marilyn” on and off. From being totally incognito in pub...

A glamorous Marilyn Monroe in a publicity photo for 1953 film How to Marry a Millionaire. On her birth certificate as Norma Jeane Mortenson, she wa...

The record for the most number of people (3,083 people) knitting together took place in September 2012 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The earl...

Hugh Rock filed the earliest U.S. patent for a modern hairbrush in 1854, and later in 1870, a brush with elastic wire teeth along with natural bris...

The 1760s saw the hairstyles adding a quarter to half the length of the face. By the mid to late 1770s, huge hair became all the rage with the heig...

Louis Vuitton, after an apprenticeship in Paris, opened his own box-making workshop in 1854. The iconic monogram canvas was introduced in 1896, fea...

Traditionally, heels were for men. Riding horses required footwear with heels in order to stay in the stirrups - hence the heels on cowboy boots. S...

Isaac Merritt Singer came from humble beginnings. Working in a machine-shop in Boston in 1851, he was given a sewing machine to repair. He construc...

Studies showed that if given the opportunity to select one designer item, handbag would be the item of choice by 22% of women.

The major difference between a mannequin and a dress form, is the layer of foam and cloth on top of its inner shell, which enables craftsmen and de...

A dress form is a model of the torso used for fitting clothing in the process of it being designed or sewed. Some call the dress form that represen...

During World War II, although cosmetics were rationed, the lipstick was the only cosmetic that was kept in production under Winston Churchill's ins...

The craze for the hourglass figure peaked in popularity in the Victorian period when steel boning was used to shape the waist, and when completely ...

With the absence of gears, old fashioned bikes relied on having bigger wheels to propel a bigger push from the pedals for speed. The large wheel al...

Purses and handbags have been a practical necessity, as well as a fantastic fashion accessory which can be traced as far back as the 14th Century. ...

By Pierre-Auguste Renoir, studies of the painting with X-rays have revealed that Renoir had two more people in front of the girl. He chose to give ...

A lithograph poster c.1893 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to promote a café-chantant musical establishment which was at the time named Divan Japonais...

Painted by Mary Cassatt, depicted is a woman at the Opera. In the late 19th century, the Opera was trendy activity and a place to be seen, and as s...

From the iconic series, Pictures of Beautiful Women , depicted here is a young girl blowing on a toy glass pipe which was a novelty and highly fash...

Everyone has unique ways to reach happiness. What makes one person happy can be very different from what makes someone else happy. Revel in your in...

Painted in 1875 by Monet, this iconic portrait is of his wife Camille and their son Jean. The strong upward perspective, he creates the dramatic ef...