Mad Men Yourself

If you always wanted to know how you would fit in the Mad Men world of New York in the early 1960s, here’s your chance. AMC has made available a cute website that lets you create your own Mad Men identity and then download your favorite creations as buddy icons and sleek wallpaper for your desktop. There are of course options for both guys and gals and the background music really sets the mood perfectly. Head on right over now and Mad Men Yourself! Also, don’t miss the season premiere of Mad Men on AMC, August 10, from 7am to 8pm. [Thanks Cam]

The Post Office Tower (later British Telecom Tower) was built in the early 1960s on commission by the General Post Office to be used to carry groovy signals across London. It raises almost 180 meters over the ground and once had both a observation deck, cocktail bar and a restaurant at the top. Sadly, the observation deck was closed down in 1971 after a bomb exploded in the mens toilet and the restaurant was closed in 1980 leaving London without any revolving restaurant that can be found in most big cities around Europe. If you want to view London from above today, the London Eye offers a spectacular view. The embedded movie below was made around the opening of the tower and takes you on a kitsch and interesting tour around it.

Ultra Swank – Your one stop blog for retro living, style and design

Ultra Swank takes you back in time into the kitsch, chic and swank living of the 50s, 60s and the 70s. We mainly focus on the design, architecture and the lifestyle of the happy-go-lucky and space-age-living mentality of that era – but also on the music and movies that takes you back to happier times. Ultra Swank is run by Chris, a Swede born in the wrong decade that currently resides in Barcelona. Read more

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Large Collection of Audrey Hepburn Articles

Seeing it’s Monday and we all love Audrey Hepburn here’s a really swell collection of scanned Audrey articles from various magazines from all over the world. The creator of The Audrey Hepburn Library realized a long time ago that it was nearly impossible finding good source material that wasn’t already covered in biographies about her and other Audrey fans had often scanned only the photos from the articles and thus making them impossible to read. Realizing this the collection was born out of desperation using eBay as the birth place. The collection is organized into separate pages by decade and by subject, so if you wish to dig deeper into the fashion of How to Steal a Million or want to study the lavish black evening gown from Breakfast at Tiffany’s, here’s your chance. Head on over to The Audrey Hepburn Library to browse the complete collection. Which is your favorite Audrey Hepburn movie?

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