
Corset News Archive - 08-May-2007
The man who invented the modern fashion industry only to die penniless has finally been honoured more than 60 years after his death. Kate Moss, who arrived with Sir Philip Green, Naomi Campbell and Claudia Schiffer, attended a gala at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to celebrate the work of French designer Paul Poiret
Hoxton, on the fringes of both London's East End and the Square Mile, has become a famously hip quarter in the last decade, home to Brit Artists, designer drinking dens and Nathan Barleys from all walks of the media. But on this particular drizzly weekday morning, Hoxton seems to have reverted to its working-class roots. A double-parked van is unloading vegetables, while other drivers vent their ...
Paul Poiret was a pioneer in modern fashion, doing away with the corset and embracing the notion of personal style.
Paul Poiret was a pioneer in modern fashion, doing away with the corset and embracing the notion of personal style. He was among the first to use draping in dressmaking and he had no problem putting pants on women.
DANVERS - Martha Driscoll won't be charging across the battlefield with a musket, but she will be the first woman ever to head up the Danvers Alarm List Co.