Corset News Archive - 13-Oct-2007
Elizabeth I morphs into some kind of 16th-century Michael Corleone to keep her throne. When we last saw the Virgin Queen (as incarnated by Cate Blanchett), it was 1558 (in 1998) and she had just completed her transformation from girl monarch to royal icon.
Little stood out except the stunningly simple yet sensuous creations at Lanvin, and Marc Jacobs' tongue. YOU know you've got problems when Marc Jacobs sticks his tongue out at the front row during the Louis Vuitton show in Paris, where runways awash with peppy prints and happy colors couldn't disguise the fact that many designers were floundering.
MUSCATINE, Iowa ? Ostrich plumes and parasols swaying in a sea of frothy lace and bodacious bustles will dress up the stage today at the world premiere of ?Muscatine! the Musical.?
WITH HER REGAL bearing, pale beauty and air of wicked intelligence, Cate Blanchett is divinely right as Queen Elizabeth I in director Shekhar Kapur's "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," just as she was in his very fine "Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen" in 1998.
Watch the trailer Cate Blanchett is divine, but this choppy sequel charges through history like a steed bound for the stables.
In retrospect the piece, presented by Yummy Dance on Thursday night at the Danspace Project, was filled with intriguing promise.
You heard right. Now start buttoning. DURING the last few seasons, we've seen the return of 1960s patent-leather go-go boots, 1930s-era brogues, the classic 1950s ballet flat and the 1970s platform.
1 All hail the Queen: You have to love Cate Blanchett, who plays Queen Elizabeth, for various reasons including the fact that she attended a star-packed screening last week in New York with Salman Rushdie, "Soprano" Michael Imperioli and Vogue's Anna Wintour.
