Weekend Conversation Starters

[Messy Nessy Chic]   Strike a pose! Fashion Week is back in Paris, when the city transforms into a runway, models flood the city streets...and yours truly posts up with a bottle of wine at a quiet little brasserie to escape the madness. If you too find it hard to keep up with the trends, Team Messy Nessy prefers to roll out our own little ode to true French fashion mavericks, from the [small town folk giving us some serious haute couture]( inspiration to [the King of 20th Century Fashion who disappeared into oblivion](. Rewind to discover fashion week before the Parisian Runways, when [the peacocking spectacle was born on the side of the racetrack](. Dive into [Marie Antoinette’s closet]( and indulge in the [underrated influence of Erté](. And it could be said that the only Paris Fashion Week catwalk you need an invite to is [this one](. But as always, never going out of style – your weekend conversation starters await… Stay curious (and chic), [Nessy]   [The Dismantling of Belleville: A Parisian Village Lost to the Wrecking Ball](   [1520749_569993956420418_1505798411_n]( The history of Belleville, the Parisian neighbourhood where legendary French singer Edith Piaf lived and called home, is a dazzling mix of folklore and fact, like all the best places to visit. There will always be an air of rebellion up in Belleville, the wine-making village built on a hill that turned into a hotbed…  [Continue Reading](   [She Dressed Kate Bush, Need We Say More?](   [FY8Q_ioXEAAvVzW]( There is a grande dame of Dutch fashion you’ve probably never heard of (if you live outside of The Netherlands). We hadn’t. But then when found a series of photos taken in the 1970s of legendary musician Kate Bush, dressed more exquisitely that we’d ever seen her. Who was she wearing and where can we…  [Continue Reading](   [Making Art with Robots: 13 Questions with the AI Artist Behind a Glam Rock Alternate Universe](   [318877956_711910236767745_552233672004304908_n](  Artificial intelligence is well and truly here. In the past few months, we’ve seen the release of revolutionary software that puts the technology in the hands of the general public as a creative tool, both for generating art and written content. Whether your experience with AI-powered art is limited to seeing it pop up in…  [Continue Reading](   [A Brief Guide to Cocktail Hour in Cuba](   [el-floridita-havana-cuba-joan-carroll]( Picture the scene back in 1937, during the heyday of American jaunts down to Cuba, when the first Pan Am seaplanes regularly took pleasure seekers from Key West to Havana: a group of hard drinking, ex-pat newspapermen are ensconced in the bar of Havana’s grandest hotel, the Nacional, discussing the finer point of sports and…  [Continue Reading](   [13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DCXXXII)](   [297680797_834287874608896_8972495093370176805_n]( 1. Hidden Portraits reinterprets historical paintings through a modern lens By Volker Hermes. Discover more portraits here…  [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](.