Weekend Conversation Starters

[Messy Nessy Chic]   Let’s tango! Are you in Paris next week? Our Paris Keyholder meet up on the Seine is next Wednesday May 25th, 6.30pm-8.30pm. Mark it in your diary! Let’s catch up over a glass while watching the tango dancers before sunset. [Send me a note via the Concierge]( if you can make it and I’ll reply with the location of where you can find me! But if you can’t make it, let’s dance in Paris anyway this weekend… Time travel with me to a [1930s dance school on the Left Bank]( or get a rare glimpse of the [ballerinas rehearsing in the attic of the Paris opera house](. Dare to [tango with the Parisian street gangs]( of yore? Perhaps you’d care to accompany me to a turn of the century [drag ball at the lost “Magic City”](.... We could waltz [under the last windmill of Paris](. Tap our feet to the sounds of Montmartre when it was [Harlem on the Seine](. And while we’re there, meet up with the [Can Can dancers at the vineyard](. And of course, after you’ve danced the night away, have a lie in with this weekend’s conversation starters. Stay curious, [Nessy]   [The Grace Mirabella Years: A Vogue Editor’s Unsung Legacy](  [unnamed-8]( Hailed as the most powerful woman in media, Anna Wintour has been fictionalised, caricatured and propelled into icon status since becoming editor-in-chief of Vogue. Then there’s Diana Vreeland, editor of the American style bible between 1963–1971, an industry legend who was the driving force of the Met’s Costume Institute, and styled a persona that would be remembered…  [Continue Reading](   [Art History’s Hidden Sexual Innuendo: The Weasel](  [weasel]( Elevated to divine status, unicorns, lions, eagles and the occasional white rabbit are the loved and familiar characters in our romantic bestiaries, but the little weasel has never managed to secure such a position. Always wild, always wayward, it was the ideal material for folklore and fable. Early Macedonian culture saw them as a good…  [Continue Reading](   [How the World’s Largest West African Voodoo Collection Ended up in a Water Tower in France](  [Leonce-Raphael-5]( Strasbourg is famous for its massive Christmas markets, white wines and fairytale architecture, but this city also has a unexpected cultural treasure – hidden in a 17th century water tower. The Chateau Vodou is home to the largest collection of Voodoo artifacts (Vodou is the French spelling) in the world. It includes over 1,200 pieces,…  [Continue Reading](   [Portraits of the Harlem Renaissance](  [1074695-zora-neale-hurston-1940-930x1341]( Thanks to Carl Van Vechten, we have glorious colour photographs of all the leading Black intellectuals and artists of the 1930s to the 1960s. A wealthy white patron of Black art, Van Vechten was a controversial figure during his lifetime and remains so today. There is no denying, however, that he helped to bring world…  [Continue Reading](   [13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DCIII)](  [15-grotesquearchite00wrig_0041-triple]( 1. Renaissance Grotto Design More engravings  [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](.