Where elegance meets sultry, fashionistas find the corset. The timeless wardrobe staple, which compliments the bust and waistline, is an edgier take on the more romantic renditions of regency– or ...

The corset is to nudity what foreplay is to sex. No other garment is so erotic because none has as loaded an effect on the female form. And few garments are so controversial; every century attacks it ...

Bella Hadid’s latest take on the corset trend is proof that she can do it all when it comes to style. In case you didn’t know (or didn’t watch Bridgerton), the corset was an essential undergarment for ...

The Minoans, a Greek civilisation that resided on the island of Crete, were the first to wear corsets. Since then, the corset has made its way around the globe, from the affluent French women’s ...

Sarah A. Chrisman readily admits she’d far rather live in Victorian times — specifically 1889 — than the modern era. When her similarly historically-focused husband gave her a corset for her 29th ...

How odd that a single article of clothing could be experienced as a sign of middle-class superiority, an emblem of eroticism, a medically necessary support garment and a device for stemming childhood ...

Fashion historian Laura Fitzachary explores why the corset is once again having a moment in fashion, and its long history in ...

Third-wave feminists waving copies of Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth once proclaimed that men had hatched an ominous conspiracy to trick women into pursuing an impossible beauty ideal rather than real ...

The corset is a piece of clothing that has seen an intriguing trajectory. In the 1500s, it was worn as an undergarment to shape the female body. Catherine de Medici, the Queen of France from 1547 to ...