While the sexy photo tradition dates all the way back to the 1890s, things took off with the pinup girls of the '40s and '50s. During WWII, the boys overseas hung the girls' pictures in their lockers, and the rest is history. Many of these beauties, like Sophia Loren and Veronica Lake, went on to have successful careers in film. Pinup girls celebrated their bodies, showed some skin, and weren't Read more

I first spotted Dominic and Chrystale's home in the background of a video they'd created for Deckster, their cool iPod Nano watch. When I approached them about featuring their home in a slideshow, they happily agreed. Home for the couple is a '50s WWII-era bungalow in an older tree-lined neighborhood in Ottawa, Canada, which they share with their young son, Loïc, and Ellee, their pup. Take a Read more

I'm excited for Gus Van Sant's upcoming film Restless, out Sept. 16, which follows a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals — hello Harold & Maude! — and their encounters with his ghost friend, a WWII Japanese kamikaze pilot. As to be expected, it's no design-centric film, but as with many Van Sant projects, the sets are still romantic and Read more

Katie Holmes and Connor Cruise were by Tom Cruise's side last night as the actor picked up an award from the Wiesenthal Center at the Four Seasons Hotel in LA. Tom earned the Jewish human rights organization's humanitarian honor, and the distinction was earned due to his longtime support of their Museum of Tolerance in addition to work bringing Nazi atrocities to light. He was especially able to Read more

The 1950s were an enormously influential decade for American style. Post-WWII, the US was rebuilding its economy and moving (haltingly and often painfully) towards social change. The dynamism and simultaneous retreat to more conservative times are both apparent in the era's styles, which veer wildly from rockabilly hair to pixie cuts and primly waved bobs. It was a time of great change and style Read more