Corset News Archive - 01-Feb-2008
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Of the 10 gowns she's worn as a bridesmaid, Kelly Mundth says that a big, poofy red dress with a lace-up, corset back and a supremely unflattering train takes the wedding cake, so to speak. It was, she says, "hideous." The detachable train, worn for the ceremony, "made us look like we had three butts. "That was my very first experience as a bridesmaid," says Mundth, who lives in Sun Prairie. "It ...
New York Fashion Week opens today, and a lot of attention will be on what's new ? an unprecedented emphasis on green ? and a...
NEW YORK ? When New York Fashion Week officially opens today, a lot of attention will be on what's new ? an unprecedented emphasis on green ? and a retooling of what's old ? Halston and Bill Blass.
Laurie Coleman, wife of Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., has invented a tool for hands-free hair drying called the "Blo & Go. " Anyone who has...
For the last few years, Kate Burton has been bouncing among stage, TV and film work. Now New York audiences will have multiple chances to see the belting side of her.
Why, when fashion designer Hussein Chalayan feels like making one out of amber wood and metal, as he did for his Fall/Winter 1995-96 collection, that's when. And why is this relevant now?...
Challenged to make art out of underwear, Paul Palcko had to ponder. "The hardest part was figuring out how to work on it, because, essentially, it's sculpture," said the editorial illustrator, 32, who chose oil paint and stuffed the corset with a blanket.
If Karl Marx were a female undergraduate at Dartmouth College, he would be wearing leggings. Leggings are the accessory of the people. The women people, that is. All of the obstacles that make good style elusive, elitist or simply impossible at Dartmouth are solved by this magic accessory known as leggings. Let me explain.
Amjad, by the Canadian company La La La Human Steps, makes high-speed ballet a very slow experience. Choreographer Edouard Lock takes a fractured view of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, with classical steps performed at flickering double speed. Essentially, that's it. Lock adds complex lighting, film sequences and men on pointe, but Amjad is one basic idea stretched over a whole evening. ...
