Corset News Archive - 12-May-2007
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
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.
By BETH NEIL FLIP-flops are for the beach, dental floss cleans your teeth and a brolly keeps off the rain. Wrong, wrong and wrong again.
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...
Getting laid in a pixelated hot tub is, er, harder than you'd think
Proposed: The Lexus LS600h L is the most complicated, most elaborate machine ever to take to four wheels. What "Ulysses" is to light reading and Confucianism is to the simple declarative sentence, this hybrid-powered limousine is nothing less than everything Toyota has ever learned about cars poured into one stupendous, stupefying, "because we can" performance piece.
GIVEN that I am basically quite bearish about the outlook for investment markets over the next couple of quarters, it might seem strange to focus on a financial institution whose fortunes are pretty closely tied to the outlook for the economy.
Trends are served fresh daily at Forever 21, the clothing retailer growing like a weed near you.
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.
Isabella Blow Fashion stylist. Born London, November 19, 1958. Died Gloucester, May7, aged 48.
