Weekend Conversation Starters

[Messy Nessy Chic]   Find your glitter pants while I set up the disco ball. That’s right, we’re not settling for another weekend devoid of dancing... So we’re bringing [the disco]( to you. And in other news, [your passport to Cairo is ready](, thanks to our chat with a time-travelling Egyptologist who graced us with her presence and that fierce flapper’s bob. Continue adding stamps to your virtual passport and find out who our next guests are on the [Keyholder Events noticeboard](. As for our weekend conversation starters, with all the talk about how to safely re-open schools, this seems like a good time to revisit the [forgotten age of open-air classrooms](, does it not?  I’ve also got a few things to say about [quarantine haircuts](. Stay strong, [Nessy]   [Our Zoom Date with a Time Travelling Egyptologist](  [76984240_2518478334935128_3041164195155663679_n-930x920]( Somehow, she transported us to a balmy summer night down the Nile river in the middle of a pandemic. Our latest virtual fireside chat brought us to Dr. Colleen Darnell, a time-travelling 1920s fashionista and groundbreaking Egyptologist, who we’ve long admired here at Messy Nessy Chic. You might compare her to female “Indiana Jones” or…  [Continue Reading](   [Classrooms without Walls: A Forgotten Age of Open-air Schools](  [12]( This old black and white photograph pops out at me every now and again on the internet, and it just about sums up my feelings on what my education should have looked like.  [Continue Reading](   [If You Can’t Go Out to the Disco, Bring the Disco to You](  [01MCNATT-superJumbo-v2]( It’s exercise! It’s dance! It’s an excuse to throw on a pair of rayon flare pants! As weekends begin to feel somewhat meaningless in a quarantined world, with few faces to see and certainly no place to go, here at MessyNessyChic, we could all use something to look forward to.  [Continue Reading](   [In Defence of a Bad DIY Haircut before its Post-Lockdown Debut](  [rexfeatures_1643542a-1400x933-1]( I’m on the brink of cutting my own hair, and I can’t be the only one. I’ve been imagining that coming out of lockdown is going to look like the 1980s for hair all over again. And it got me thinking – there must have been something to those crazy perms and gravity-defying bangs for…  [Continue Reading](   [The Mystery of Baudelaire’s Maddening Mistress](  [baudelairegraphic]( There’s love. There’s lust. Then there’s Jeanne DuVal, who embodied something between the two in her tumultuous relationship with Charles Baudelaire, France’s original “bad boy” poet. As a muse to the rebellious Parisian dandy, she inspired some of the most haunting, revolutionary verses in history – odes to the woman he loved to love, and…  [Continue Reading](   [Complete with Art Deco Nightclub, Hearst’s Hollywood Love Nest is (still) For Sale](  [12]( You’ll see it in the The Godfather, in Francis Ford Coppola’s infamous horse head scene. It was the enviable house of Whitney Houston’s character Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard. Even Jackie and John F. Kennedy stayed there during their honeymoon, and later used it as his West Coast presidential election HQ.  [Continue Reading](   [13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CDXCX)](  [wescolouring-1]( 1. These Downloadable coloring sheets inspired by Wes Anderson Movies We featured artist Jordan Bolton’s poster work on 13 Things before, but he’s kindly offering these colouring sheets to download for free and help us pass the time. Find the colouring sheets here, via My Modern Met. 2.  [Continue Reading](  Interested in Becoming a MessyNessy Keyholder? [Apply now to unlock the Vault!](    [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [Blog]( [To read more from MessyNessyChic visit the Blog]( and make sure you keep getting these email by adding contact@messynessychic.com to your address book or whitelist us. Our postal address: In a Café, Paris 75001 Want out of the loop? [Unsubscribe](.