Corset News Archive - 14-Oct-2007
PARIS, Oct 14, 2007 (AFP) - Gustave Courbet's best-known work "The Origin of the World", an up-close painting of a woman's pudenda, parted thighs and torso, was considered so scandalous it was kept hidden from public view for 120 years.
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.
After the fat years come the lean. For eight long years, the public sector has enjoyed the richest of pickings as Gordon Brown used a combination of higher taxes, and higher borrowing to pump billions into the public services.
Scientists have designed a new "heart-reinforcing corset" to help combat congestive heart failure. While there isn't a large degree of understanding of the condition, many believe that the heart expands in order to pump more blood as a reaction to damage or valve problems. This expansion generally exacerbates the problem, so the new reinforcing band is attempting to control the expansion of the ...
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.
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.
