'Grease' Returns to Its Raunchy Roots | Playbill.com
playbill.comAny high school theater kid can tell you about the dirty version of Grease. The one that goes, “the chicks’ll cream for Greased lightning…she’s a real pussy wagon.” But little do they know how deep it goes.
A new (old) production of the show is opening in Chicago that brings the tuner back to its roots, before it got cleaned up for Broadway. With help from co-creator Jim Jacobs, Playbill has a brief history of the fascinating real version.
We ♥: Chanel 2.55
Fashion fades but style remains. The Chanel 2.55 is definitely a timeless style in a class of its own. It is almost 90 years since the bag was introduced and it is still as loved by fashionistas (and us!) all over the world.
The Chanel Reissue 2.55
Recently, we had a few really beautiful Chanel Timeless Classic pieces in our store. Hence, that inspired us to retrace the history of this iconic bag.
Here we go back to the 1929, where the original handbag was created by none other than Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel. She added a chain to her handbag so that she could carry it on her shoulder – how ingenious. It’s a small detail, but one that made a huge difference!
Coco Chanel and her Chanel 255
Later updated and re-introduced on February 1955, the Chanel 2.55 (which signifies the date of creation) was unveiled to the world. The details of this bag have been inspired by many different aspects of Coco Chanel’s life so we think it’s worth taking abit of time to examine them.
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Inspired by the chains worn by the caretakers of the Convent to dangle their keys
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Represents the color of the uniform at the Convent where she grew up
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Perhaps inspired by jockeys’ riding coats, the stained-glass windows of the abbey at Aubazine, or by the cushions in Chanel’s Paris apartment
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So-called because Chanel never married
What I like best about this bag is the little zipped pocket which is said to have been where she kept her love letters. How romantic!
This design got a new breath of life when Karl Largerfield put the double-C logo onto the classic turn lock in 1980s. This new sensation is now referred to as the Chanel Timeless Classic Flap.
The modern Chanel Timeless Classic Flap
Often seen on celebrities, this Chanel Timeless Classic is definitely one that will take you from work to play and everywhere else!
Kristin Cavallari with her Chanel black caviar mini classic flap
Kirsten Durst with her Chanel red lambskin medium classic flap
Nicky Hilton with her Chanel white caviar jumbo timeless classic
Lauren Conrad with her Chanel black lambskin maxi timeless class
Available in many colors and sizes (mini, small, medium, jumbo and maxi), you really don’t have an excuse not to own one. Which is your favourite Chanel?
Start of Zombies
Most popular from the Voodoo-cult of Haiti in which the dead is reanimated and don’t feel pain. Zombies have existed for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years, in the form/brought of magical or religious ceremonies which raised the dead.
Modern zombology did not take form until about 1912. In 1912, Dr. Otto Standish, known as the Father of Modern Zombology, published “Mechanisms and Characteristics of the Undead”, a treatise which raised zombology from the level of folklore and myth to a science. Dr. Otto Standish spent several years in the field studying the Voodoo rituals which produced the undead, and their effects on undead physiology.
