Word: corset
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...bride wore white--well, off-white. Not so white as the bare-midriff wedding gown of her 38-date rockconcert tour earlier this year. But to let people know she was the same old trend-setting Madonna who repopularized the crucifix and the corset, she topped her outfit with a humorous black chapeau, whose brim coyly held her long white veil...
...film has a moral, it is, "Don't dream it, be it"--a line O'Brien took from the catalog of the racy couturier Frederick's of Hollywood. For most Rockyphiles it is enough to dress like a Frederick's dream: Dracula makeup, dominatrix corset, your basic black garter belt. The hard-core fans, who mime the dialogue onstage, do more than suit up for the dream; they star in it. And once in a full moon the dream can come true. Ron Maxwell, 22, is a Citibank computer operator by day and one of the Eighth Street's performing...
Smart and stinging--that was Bancroft at her best. Born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, she was groomed as a standard babe when Hollywood signed her at 20. It was like fitting a firestorm for a corset. She returned to New York City, and in 1958 became a Broadway star as the spirited Gittel in William Gibson's Two for the Seesaw. The next year she found her great role, as Annie Sullivan, the half-blind teacher of the blind and deaf Helen Keller, in Gibson's The Miracle Worker. Bancroft's ferocity, starkly colliding and beautifully meshing with Patty Duke...
...grace, Narciso Rodriguez sexiness and the intricate detailing and embellishment of Valentino couture. His careful construction makes such high styles suitable for a variety of body types and sizes. The shutter-pleat dress, for example, consists of bias-cut strips of fabric stitched together to create a de facto corset. "They're miracle dresses," Valvo says. "Put the body in there and--shoop! The bias expands and controls. Everyone ends up with this amazing hourglass figure...
...make a career. At just 19, Keira Knightley owns one widely quoted multiplex moment. In last summer's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Knightley dismissed a black-toothed marauder with a metal pole and the trailer-ready line, "You like pain? Try wearing a corset." Now, if all goes according to plan, she will add a second epigram to her name. In King Arthur, which hits theaters nationwide on July 7, she plays Guinevere as a heavily muscled, lethal woman warrior. (Arthur, like Pirates, is a Jerry Bruckheimer production.) When one of the more sensitive...