Corset News Archive - 30-Oct-2007

  • Losin' for bruisin': Smith is beat up but won't let up (San Francisco Chronicle)
    Alex Smith entered the game with a pain-killing injection in his backside and exited in the direction of an X-ray room. In between, he winced a lot, repeatedly clutched his right arm as if he thought it might fall off and, after one particularly vicious hit,...


  • Celebrities put the squeeze on corset bidders (Montreal Gazette)
    Burlesque performer Dita Von Teese has a new claim to fame - designer of the most expensive corset in Hollywood.


  • Girls' Sexy Halloween Look Spooks Some (The Tampa Tribune)
    TAMPA - Diana Rodrigues noticed something frightful about the Halloween costumes aimed at her teenage daughters: They're shorter, tighter and a lot more revealing.


  • Celebrity corsets fetch $120,000 at auction (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
    Burlesque performer and pin-up Dita Von Teese has a new claim to fame -- designer of the most expensive corset in Hollywood.


  • Bras - a century of suspension (San Francisco Chronicle)
    The pretty lace bra, a seemingly simple undergarment, took a good 100 years to perfect. "You'd be surprised how much engineering really goes into a bra; they really are a piece of technology, like a suspension bridge," says writer Teresa Riordan, who...


  • Lingerie Girdles Cachet With The Fashion-Savvy (The Tampa Tribune)
    Poor Miss Lucarelli. Our sixth-grade English teacher became the inadvertent object of our mirth the day we caught her tugging at a corset strap that had strayed from the sleeve of her shirt. More shaming than dandruff, that risque glimpse of underwear made us giggle till we hurt.


  • Play dress-up (Los Angeles Times)
    Still need an outfit for Halloween? Scare up some ideas from a few outlandish pieces seen in recent runway shows. AHighlander plaid corset at Jean Paul Gaultier. Gold C-3PO pants at Balenciaga. Marie Antoinette hoop skirts and petticoats at Christian Dior. There's nothing quite like the engaging theatrics of a runway show to raise the question "Who's gonna wear that?"


  • Cassandra Tognoni | Giving out eye candy (Daily Pennsylvanian)
    On Saturday, they were everywhere: sexy referees, sexy gladiators, sexy cats. It's Halloween, and that means discovering that just about any occupation and any animal can be made into tight, cleavage-baring, upper-thigh-revealing ensemble that oozes sexuality.


  • No tricks, just celebrity treats at charity Halloween party (USA Today)
    It was a celebrity circus Saturday for Dream Halloween's "Under the Big Top" party at Santa Monica Airport's Barker Hangar. The benefit for the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation lured stars such as Marlee Matlin, Doris Roberts and Jason Priestley.


  • BY THE POWER OF FASHION (British Vogue)
    GIORGIO ARMANI will chair next year's eagerly-anticipated Costume Institute Gala , as the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art prepares to celebrate the influence of superheroes on fashion history.


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