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High profile events attract pop culture fashionistas like moths to a flame and when the celebs gather you can count on seeing clothes ranging from the fabulous to the foolish, at times even the frightening. Last month gave us two fine examples of fashion faux pas trotted out by the rich and famous. The...
Western European women’s clothing changed dramatically in the first half of the 12th century, during the First Crusade, when noble ladies accompanied their crusading lords to cities such as Constantinople, Palermo, and Venice—all centres of silk manufacture. These fashion-conscious visitors discovered and adopted a local, eastern-inspired garment, the bliaut, and before long the gown...
The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal as portrayed in the satirical pen and ink illustrated stories created by Charles Dana Gibson during a twenty-year period spanning the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the United States. The Gibson Girl set what some argue was the first national standard for...
We all know how good new clothes make us feel. Ralph, a bald Humboldt penguin, is enjoying a new lease of life at a Hampshire wildlife park – after being fitted with his own tailor-made wetsuit. Unlike most Humboldt penguins, who molt their feathers gradually, Ralph’s always fall out in one day. Ralph’s baldness...
Christian Dior, creator of the 1947 spring/summer fashion collection that swept Europe and the Americas (coined “the New Look” after Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Carmel Snow’s exclamation, “Its such a New Look!”) thought embroidery was dangerous. In Dior’s book The Little Dictionary of Fashion, (HNA Books, 1954) he described embroidery as, “One of the most beautiful...
If you look around it quickly becomes obvious that very few men have the faintest idea how to dress. So many guys look like they get their style cues from bankers and politicians, or they just don’t care, or they’re out of work B-list comedians. Men definitely should not be encouraged to dress badly...
Bra history dates back as far as ancient Crete but the word brassiere didn’t appear until 1907, when it was coined in an issue of American Vogue. Prior to 1907 early bras were referred to as soutien-gorges by the French or bust improvers (or BBs) by the Edwardian British. Most of the fashion designers...
I recently read The First Casualty by Ben Elton, a murder mystery set to the background of the horrendous meat grinder of the Third Battle of Ypres. A Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Douglas Kingsley, is sent to Flanders under unusual circumstances to investigate the murder of a celebrity war hero who was killed under...
We’re very pleased here at AH Magazine to announce that our team member Karen has won an international design competition with an idea that is brilliant yet elegantly simple. The challenge of the Upcycle Contest, create something new from something old, has been embraced by Karen for years, and her background in crafting and...
