Corset News Archive - 31-Oct-2006
Don't expect many ghouls and goblins on Halloween tomorrow. Both locally and nationwide, retailers are reporting pirate costumes as their top-selling Halloween booty.
Marie Antoinette inspired Sofia Coppola's new movie, the cover of last month's Vogue and more fashion designers than you can shake a powdered wig at.
1ST LT. NATE RAWLINGS IS STANDING IN THE CAMP LIBERTY MOTOR POOL, just west of Baghdad, trying to figure out why a NASCAR track dryer should be welded to one of his minesweeping trucks. In such situations, Rawlings -- who is 6-2, 230 pounds -- resembles an offensive lineman who has been asked to dance ballet. His brow furrows, his comic-book square chin dips with respectful curiosity. But he'd
1ST LT. NATE RAWLINGS IS STANDING IN THE CAMP LIBERTY MOTOR POOL, just west of Baghdad, trying to figure out why a NASCAR track dryer should be welded to one of his minesweeping trucks. In such situations, Rawlings -- who is 6-2, 230 pounds -- resembles an offensive lineman who has been asked to...
Before speaking to a group of invited guests at the Bill Heard Theatre, Sidney Poitier spent time talking to about 100 Columbus State University theater students.
They may still attract plenty of curious glances, but goths, or goty as they are called in Russian, have become a fixture in Moscow, most noticeably in the park around the boulevard at Chistiye Prudy, where they gather in the evenings to chat, flirt and show off lovingly assembled funereal outfits.
Pop culture is losing its head over Marie Antoinette. More than 200 years after a revolutionary mob led her to the guillotine; the fashionista French monarch is back in style. Not only is her tumultuous life the basis for Marie Antoinette, director Sofia Coppola's biopic that opens Friday, the controversial queen is also the subject of two recent books, a nonfiction tome and a novel, plus a PBS
Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- New York parents won't find Halloween costumes for their little princesses and superheroes among the corsets, towering headpieces and cigarette outfits at Frankie Steinz Costumes in the city's SoHo neighborhood.
In her thigh-highs and ruby miniskirt, Little Red Riding Hood does not appear to be en route to her grandmother's house. And Goldilocks, in a snug bodice and platform heels, gives the impression she has been sleeping in everyone's bed.
Is Joan of Arc a fashion icon? The idea makes perfect sense in the context of "Love & War: The Weaponized Woman," a bombshell of a show at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. The fashions on view here speak to the complicated roles of modern woman ? tough and tender, empowered in the workplace, and a seductress, too. A 16th-century steel-fingered gauntlet, for example, is
