Corset News Archive - 08-Feb-2008
Tweed's style icons aren't the most trendy bunch: Sherlock Holmes, college professors, your grandma. But at New York Fashion WeeK, the fall staple got a makeover: the fabric is sometimes made of unexpected materials, the pattern not always perfect and the shapes of the garments aren't restrictive.
Only profits coming in about 10 times higher than consensus estimates would please the markets in today's spooked environment, but, all the same, it is quite hard to understand the beating taken by the Rolls-Royce share price yesterday on what to me look like spectacularly good results from one of Britain's few remaining world-class companies.
Hilary Alexander reports from New York fashion week.
Tweed's style icons aren't the most trendy bunch: Sherlock Holmes, college professors, your grandma.
It is perhaps the most critical question posed in a young woman's social life. Her happiness and the happiness of her beloved hang precariously in the balance.
