And God… created Mrs Brigitte Bardot

She became the definition of seductive beauty when the Western world was still struggling to come to terms with our inherent sensuality. Et Dieu… créa la femme (1956) sent shock waves through Hollywood, and made Mrs Brigitte Bardot an overnight sensation [...]

And God… created Mrs Brigitte Bardot

Forever twenty-seven

Four years. That’s all it took for a guitar virtuoso from Seattle to become a superstar and stay twenty-seven forever. The impact of his art and persona on pop culture was immediate. No one had ever played an electric guitar the way he [...]

Forever twenty-seven

The King of Sex

If Jay-Z drops your name a dozen times in a song, you’ve got it made. Fashion designer, film director and multi millionaire Tom Ford has become an American icon, that much is sure. Born in Austin, raised in Houston and Santa Fe, known [...]

The King of Sex

Actress, muse, singer and style icon

Being the daughter of an actress and a World War II spy, Jane Birkin was destined to inherit her parents’ artistic and adventurous nature. Her musical and romantic relationship with French provocateur Serge Gainsbourg accelerated Birkin’s inevitable rise to fame. I have a weak [...]

Actress, muse, singer and style icon

The time capsules of Andy Warhol

During the final thirteen years of his life, pop art god and rebel extraordinaire Andy Warhol made 610 ‘time capsules’ filled with personal belongings and found objects. What to make of them, thirty years after his untimely death? An anonymous bidder paid 30.000 dollar to [...]

The time capsules of Andy Warhol

The curious life of Ms Kate Moss

She’s the model other models aspire to be. The muse photographers fall hopelessly in love with. The embodiment of rock and roll in a world that prefers glitter and glamour. All things considered, it’s hard to believe Ms Kate Moss is one woman. The story [...]

The curious life of Ms Kate Moss

The rebel that redefined cinema

The movie theater is one of those places that never ceases to amaze me. Whenever I’m in need of a soul-stirring impulse I turn to the big screen, taking in the emotions and making them my own. Movies that always deliver the goods are those [...]

The rebel that redefined cinema

We need to talk about Mr Herman Jansen (1859-1935)

In its heydey, Schiedam had over 400 distilleries and shipped seventy million liters of genever a year. Mr Herman Jansen was one of the city’s and industry’s driving forces. The world-class distillery that bears his name is where I found my identity. Schiedam first flourished [...]

We need to talk about Mr Herman Jansen (1859-1935)

The other Hepburn

If you say Hepburn, nine out of ten people will say Audrey. But the other Hepburn, Katharine, remains to be the only woman ever to win four Academy Awards (Ms Streep is on her heels with three). A true Hollywood icon, who fully deserved the [...]

The other Hepburn

From battlezone to poolside

Slim Aarons–with a name like that you’re bound to be famous. Born George Allen Aarons in 1916, he enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of 18 and soon found himself photographing maneuvers at the Military Academy in West Point, New York. When [...]

From battlezone to poolside
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