What someone wears speaks volumes about who they are as a person and the same can be said for the styles associated with various movements and cultures. As a cyclical art form, fashion – and its ...
The word "bohemian" is bandied about now, applied to everyone from Pete Doherty to Kate Moss, but what exactly is one? Eccentric. Rebellious. Amoral, quite often. But bohemianism was, maybe still is, ...
Over several Starbucks visits this past Christmas, I noticed that the chain's signage – inviting us all to contemplate eggnog lattes and peace on earth – looked like it was out of Dr. Suess book. The ...
Bohemianism as a lifestyle emerged in post-Revolution France. What started as poverty and the political rejection of the aristocracy, became an affirmation, an intellectual counter-culture to ...
Last week the American Committee of the Cité Universitaire in Paris acknowledged a gift of $25,000 from rich Bernard Mannes Baruch of Manhattan. Mr. Baruch’s money will provide for a room in which, if ...
Paisley's journey from its origins in Persia to hippy chic and contemporary fashion, via a Scottish textiles town. Lindsay Baker reports. “One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art,” ...
It was always one of my ambitions to acquire a VW camper van, and now they've gone and announced that they're not being made any more. The camper van is condemned as an outdated symbol of 1960s ...
Tony Moore's Dancing With Empty Pockets: Australia's Bohemians possesses many virtues, but arguably its chief achievement is its persuasive argument that literary and artistic bohemianism has played ...