Weekend Conversation Starters

[Messy Nessy Chic]   You wouldn’t believe some of the emails we get...! Emails from your fellow readers, letting us know that they read something on MessyNessyChic and took it to a place we couldn’t have imagined. Our research has inspired everything from movie pitches, novels, art exhibitions and fashion collections to college essays, dissertations and teachers’ lesson plans. Our stories have also had a personal impact; changed some of your career plans, moved you around the world, prompted family reunions and helped you through challenging moments. So I thought it was about time we catalogued the past 10 years of research for those of you who have come to rely on MessyNessyChic as a creative resource. A new door has been opened up in the Keyholder Vault and we’re calling it the [Collector’s Corner](. Looking for inspiration for your next creative project? Researching a niche topic? We’re here to help. As a collector of culture, think of [this as your personal library](. And don’t forget, your personal Collector’s & Travel Concierge is always at your service (as well as our travel library, restaurant guide and more). With Paris and other cities coming out of lockdown this month, we’re also busy putting together our summer events & inspiration guides.  So maybe it’s time to [open up the Vault and become a Keyholder](! Or you can just settle in with our weekend conversation starters, where we’re boarding a dictator’s time capsule train, meeting the Kardashians of Eastern Europe and partying with the Blitz Kids of London. Stay curious, [Nessy]   [Meet the London Club Kids Who Made Punk Go Pop](  [Cover-3-930x650]( Sex, drugs and lots of black eyeliner. Just a regular Tuesday night at the Blitz Club. At the turn of the 1980s, London’s teenage squatters, outcast art school kids and disillusioned punks all descended on a barren Covent Garden in search of a good night out. By simply living out their wildest and wackiest fantasies,…  [Continue Reading](   [“Now that, is an Episode of the Kardashians We’d Watch”](  [maxresdefault (24)]( You can imagine them in a Wes Anderson movie too – Owen Wilson is being chased by a sheep and the camera pans over to Trio Mandili, a Georgian musical group of three young women who sing folk songs polyphonically, accompanied by a traditional string instrument known as a panduri. They’re big on Youtube, with 782K subscribers at…  [Continue Reading](   [All Aboard Tito’s Train: A Dictator’s Time Capsule of Luxury Travel](  [blue-train-9-1280x853]( In today’s internet rabbit hole adventure, I ventured far from home and ended up on a Serbian website for filming locations. To my surprise, one of the locations for hire just so happened to be an ex-dictator’s private luxury train. Sitting in a rather rundown warehouse in Belgrade, the luxurious Blue train was custom-designed in…  [Continue Reading](   [Cape Town’s Lost District, through the Eyes of its Transgender Darling](  [image11-930x1000]( Once upon a time, at the southernmost tip of Africa, nestled in a hollow between the shores of the Atlantic Ocean and slopes of Table Mountain lived an awesome bourgeoning community of thespians. District Six was home to bohemians, artists, merchants, preachers, students, business people, gangsters and everyone in between. Think New York’s Greenwich Village…  [Continue Reading](   [13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLII)](  [e9deab041324224673cb0e5f170ce3b7]( [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](.