Corset News Archive - 28-Dec-2007

  • Questers donate to Dana Adobe (The Adobe Press)
    In an effort to encourage the restoration of historical landmarks, the Questers have donated and purchased items for the Dana Adobe.


  • Gabrielle on the state of Union (Inside Bay Area)
    SHE'S GOT that whole perky, Doris Day-shrink-wrapped-in-milk-chocolate thing going. No matter the material, actress Gabrielle Union, nice Catholic girl, Nebraska-born/Pleasanton-bred, has worked that clean-cut image, mining the wholesomeness ? notwithstanding those steamy Maxim pics, the ones with the pink corset, pouty lips and plumped-up cleavage ? as she's zipped from comedy to drama and back.


  • Nationally, it was the trip; locally, it was the tunes (Pioneer Press)
    PPrince's "Planet Earth," Radiohead's "In Rainbows" and Paul McCartney's "Memory Almost Full" stand among 2007's most-discussed albums.


  • When tech geeks turn fashionistas (Channel NewsAsia)
    Label-loving technophiles have it good these days. More and more luxury-goods companies are crossing over to the once-staid sphere of tech gadgets and stencilling their glitzy logo on every thing cold and metallic, from humble thumbdrives to notebooks.


  • Asos, the cyber department store inspired by celebrity (Times Online)
    A stack of statistics attests to the upward mobility in 2007 of Asos, the fashion website. These include an 83 per cent turnover increase in the first six months of its financial year and 300,000 dresses sold this season alone.


  • Stores give gift of easy returns, so far (San Jose Mercury News)
    Forum: Return nightmares I hit bottom standing in a line 18 shoppers deep at Victoria's Secret in Westfield Valley Fair mall, drowning in a sea of pink underwear.


  • How to Shop in Milan - Without Spending a Fortune (TheStreet.com)
    Find those same fabulous clothes in outlet stores, and save a bundle


  • Celebrities don their best for dubious distinction (Chicago Sun-Times)
    With the money to hire a team of stylists and the fame to attract the best designers, you'd think that celebrities would be well dressed. You would be wrong.


  • Helena Bonham Carter's pie-in-the-sky dream (Los Angeles Times)
    The actress wanted to be 'Sweeney Todd's' baker, but first she had to convince someone. LONDON -- "I remember courting over 'Sweeney,' " says Helena Bonham Carter, 8 1/2 months pregnant, perched on the edge of a sofa in a hotel room in late November, looking as if she might give birth at any second. "I remember us listening to the whole score one Saturday, six years ago, and him even ...


  • Shelton bolsters downtown patrols (Connecticut Post)
    SHELTON ? Police are stepping up patrols downtown in the wake of several recent incidents, including a stabbing and two break-ins. Over the Christmas holiday, the Wooster Street Market at 70


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    Corset News Archive - 28-Dec-2007