Corset News Archive - 18-Feb-2008
ONE EVENT. Two stories. Which one will prevail at the moment of truth. According to the Associated Press, the divorce hearing between Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills will head into a second week, after Justice Hugh Bennett allotted extra time for the couple's court case.
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
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.
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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.
Devi Cholet can pinpoint the moment she realized that Frida Kahlo, painter of iconic self-portraits, had herself attained icon status.
Is it the new swim suits or swimmers getting serious in an Olympic year?
The plane taxied to a stop and a flight attendant?s voice told us that the temperature outside (outside being Calcutta) was 27 degrees Celsius at eight in the evening. This was last week, when night-time temperatures in Delhi were stuck in single digits.
THE "world's quickest corset" is how Leisel Jones yesterday described the swimsuit developed for competitors at the Beijing Games.
NEW YORK -- Menswear designers delivered the most powerful emotional wallops at this year's fall fashion shows here.
