Word: corset
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...overreaction? Perhaps. Certainly there is an element of irrational behavior in the stock-market trembling that occurs every time the world's newest economic debutante adjusts her corset. China's $1.41 trillion economy is, after all, only the world's sixth largest (one-eighth the size of the U.S.'s and less than half of Japan's). But China's voracious demand for the world's raw materials and its burgeoning consumer markets means that the country has taken on outsized importance as an engine of global economic growth. Since 1995, China's GDP has doubled and its imports have...
Leave it to Sofia Coppola and Madonna to bring the powdered wigs and the sumptuous decorative glory of the 18th century back into fashion. Coppola plans to make a movie out of Antonia Fraser's Marie Antoinette: The Journey. And Madonna is unearthing the corset again for her upcoming tour. On the decorative front, Ralph Lauren has created gold-plated flatware for his home collection, and Philippe Starck was inspired by Louis XV in his work for Baccarat and Kartell. Au revoir, finally, to minimalism. --By Amanda Greene
...Latterday Plays and The Shape of Things) are cunning investigations into the way people hurt people. Now, in his version of A.S. Byatt's Booker prizewinning novel, Possession: A Romance, he has ventured into Merchant-Ivory territory: that foreign country called the English past, where passion bursts from the corset of propriety and love is the most beautiful work two poets can create...
...euro. No way would the country allow those profligate Italians and other high rollers to debase the new common currency by spending more than they could afford and running high deficits that would ignite inflation. So every member of the monetary union had to don a whalebone corset "Made in Germany." Above all, nobody could generate a deficit higher than 3% of GDP. Or else...
...store’s sexy lingerie ranges from raw (a red leather corset tied up the front) to ambiguous (a shiny black teddy with frilly pink lacing that screams “virgin whore”). But don’t worry, the brand Lip Service—“pioneers of clothing for fashion freaks”—has designed its clothes to allow frankness and safety. For the professional woman seeking to show off her assets, transparent, 100 percent PVC plastic blazers are available for just...