Corset News Archive - 24-Nov-2006
Eyeing a box set for someone's Christmas gift this year? Your options range from the Doors to John Coltrane to Dolly Parton. Find out which are worth the money.
The Associated Press reviews several notable boxed set releases:
Stepping into the Gund Gallery at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, a visitor faces the work of Yohji Yamamoto. Mannequins, draped in slouchy menswear-inspired suits, stand in a line. All but the first are turned forward, their sides to the viewer. It's a runway processional that seems meant to lead you further into this display of high-end fashion. Nearby is a looping video of the runway show from
Platform shoes could be the eighth architectural wonder. They are remarkable examples of design but, like most of the seven fabled monuments of the ancient world, surely these extravagant pillars of footwear cannot last.
"Glitter and Doom: German Portraits From the 1920s" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is little short of an electrical storm. Organized by Sabine Rewald, this exhibition creates an indelible, psychologically charged picture of Weimar Germany as it teetered between World Wars I and II.
A 19TH century visitor turned up in Chippenham on Saturday to help launch the town's 2006 festival.
As you stroll through the exhibits in the Linn County Historical Museum in Brownsville, take a close look at the mannequins and photographs that depict pioneer women.
The Metropolitan Museum?s exhibition creates an indelible, psychologically charged picture of Weimar Germany as it teetered between World Wars I and II.
NEW YORK ? All the high-profile trappings are here: skimpy outfits, leggy models in super-high heels, ogling photographers, seamstresses with straight pins dangling from their mouths.
TORONTO -- A funeral for celebrated Celtic musician John Allan Cameron will be held Monday at a Catholic church just outside Toronto. A statement from the family says the music icon will be remembered at St. Isaac Jogues Church in Pickering, Ont.
