Corset News Archive - 03-Sep-2007
Win Zibeon's "Plattaco Oro No. 9" nails the theme of the "Small Matters of Great Importance" exhibit on the canvas. The picture features four gold nails driven into a golden landscape, set in a gold frame.
London - For Hayley Brown, the post-wedding blues hit soon after the honeymoon with her husband Wesley. "It was really weird," she says. "We had spent 18 months saving and planning and making sure everything was perfect, and then, in a single day, it's all over. I kind of thought - what now?
Burlesque is back, shaking, shimmying and ready to tease.
It?s "Dream" New Orleans style, thanks to jazz music, Edgar Revilla's flirty southern costuming and a Louisiana set. Puck?s a girl (cute, peppy Zoe Jarman), a common modern choice. Sean Sellars is a physical Oberon, leaping and tussling with finesse.
Fall fashion never ceases to be fun. Even with a rather neutral palette this year -- black, white and gray with punches of cobalt and a few bold hues -- the feminine styles and fun accessories abound.
9/3/07 - by Lynne Belluscio - There it was, folded haphazardly in the box, a white gauze dress with a train. The handwritten tag, written a while ago read " 1880s - 1890s slip?". I was glad there was a question mark by the label, because it was obvious that whoever wrote it wasn't sure about the date.
Some patrons of the mainstream performing arts can get themselves all knickered up come Fringe time. But there's a secret. As secrets are wont to do, it goes bump in the night. The Late Night Cabaret, the Fringe's everyday after-party, does more than go bump. It screams, rolls and pratfalls in a blur of feather boas, sticky floors and limeligh.
