What no one tells you about running a business as a woman

1. The other Madame X Portraits…

Forgotten feminist icons of the French military, the Vivandières, alternatively known as cantinières, was the French title for women attached to military units who sold wine to the troops and offered better cuisine on the battlefield than the army could offer. An often overlooked part of women’s and military history, while they were not sanctioned to do any fighting, there are countless reports of many women who did. They began as supporters, originally tasked with providing home comforts to those in the field or at camp and quickly rose to become a fundamental part of the army.

Imagine having your name engraved in a seat at the mythical Opera Garnier in Paris, the theatre that inspired The Phantom of the Opera and has hosted some of the world's most iconic bottoms in its red velvet chairs. After hearing about the opportunity to adopt one, I've spent my morning wondering ho

Did you know know that half of all the films copyrighted in between 1911 and 1925 were written by women? A hundred years ago women were involved in nearly every aspect of production and held key positions in the industry.

Did you ever hear the one about the CIA-employed sex workers who were trained to drug, bed and interrogate unsuspecting American citizens while they were unwittingly tripping on LSD as government agents secretly watched? You'd think you'd remember a story like that but Operation Midnight Climax has

Whether you’ve traded your old sofa on Craigslist or advertised your business and its products to the world, we’ve all had to dabble in the art of promotion at one point or another. In my experience, creativity is key, and it doesn’t get much more creative than the advertising style of 19th century banner ladies, aka, the human billboards of yesteryear.

“It’s not a symbol of harassment. It’s a symbol of a woman having an absolutely wonderful time! I clutched my shawl to me because that sheaths the body. It was my protection, my shield. I was walking through a sea of men. I was enjoying every minute of it.”

The only place more frequented than the Eiffel Tower, according to 19th century Parisians, was the exalted mattress of the Valtesse de la Bigne. Her story is the quintessential rags-to-riches tale, albeit one that’ll make you blush, and clues to her influence over the era’s most power.

In 1962, a reporter with the New York Post got a tip that screen goddess of the 1940s, Veronica Lake, was working as a barmaid in the lobby of the Martha Washington Hotel, a low rent boarding house in Midtown Manhattan.

A dramatic fragment of Paris recast as sculpture, this one-of-a-kind piece is formed from exploded pewter and lead melted down from a Parisian rooftop. Suspended on a slender black mount, the metal has cooled into a wildly expressive, almost geological shape—part ruin, part cloudburst, part relic—its silvery surface ca