Corset News Archive - 17-Feb-2008
The Times/LUCY SCHALY The guides at Old Economy are getting new outfits to wear while they lead visitors around the grounds starting this spring. Sarah Buffington, left, adjusts guide Jo Ellen Purciavalle's bonnet.
MUSEUMS and collectors have snapped up dozens of designer items fashioned a century ago by ground-breaking French stylist Paul Poiret, the man credited with emancipating women from the corset.
Devi Cholet can pinpoint the moment she realized that Frida Kahlo, painter of iconic self-portraits, had herself attained icon status.
Museums and collectors on Thursday snapped up dozens of designer items fashioned a century ago by ground-breaking French stylist Paul Poiret, the man credited with emancipating women from the corset.
THE "world's quickest corset" is how Leisel Jones yesterday described the swimsuit developed for competitors at the Beijing Games.
It's rodeo time in Tucson, the best time to spot the latest Western attire.
With traditional craft techniques dying out, Ian Wallace is a rarity ? a bespoke corset maker, who this year created some special pieces for Avsh Alom Gur's catwalk show during London fashion week
Faith Simmons Independence Age : 17
Sales representative Aubri Webb stood before a group of 10 women relaxing in a living room in Oxnard. Behind her, next to the television, Webb had set up a display of adult toys, oils, fragrances and other sexual enhancement products. "If anyone has a cell phone," Webb said, "I do recommend you put it to ? " "Vibrate!" several replied spontaneously, giggling.
