Corset News Archive - 11-May-2007

  • Stylist who didn't mind if her antlers got in the way (The Australian)
    Isabella Blow Fashion stylist. Born London, November 19, 1958. Died Gloucester, May7, aged 48.


  • Museum exhibit recalls forgotten `king of fashion' (The Charlotte Observer)
    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.


  • The Designer Who Gave Women A Chance to Breathe (Washington Post)
    NEW YORK -- The exhibition "Poiret: King of Fashion," which opened Wednesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, is both graceful and muscular, serving as a thoughtful and enlightening homage to a little-known French designer who was influential in the years before the First Wo...


  • Click This: Sex Advice for the Digital Age (The Village Voice)
    Getting laid in a pixelated hot tub is, er, harder than you'd think


  • Faster Fashion, Cheaper Chic (New York Times)
    Trends are served fresh daily at Forever 21, the clothing retailer growing like a weed near you.


  • Poiret: the Forgotten `King of Fashion' (AP via Yahoo! Asia News)
    Paul Poiret was a pioneer in modern fashion, doing away with the corset and embracing the notion of personal style.


  • What to Wear to a Revolution (New York Times)
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art?s sumptuous survey of the designs of the French couturier Paul Poiret will transform your understanding of the origin of modern fashion.


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    Corset News Archive - 11-May-2007