Antique Textile Adventure – Part Two: Antique Corsets
This is the second installment of my blog series about my visit where I was kindly given special permission by the curators to study items at The Ohio State University Historic Costume and Textile Collection. If you missed my first post on embroidery, click here to catch up Or click on “Read More” below to
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Antique Textile Adventure – Part One: Embroidery
Last week I was permitted the unique opportunity to go back to my alma mater and spend the day studying antique corsets, gowns, and embroidered textiles at The Ohio State University Historic Costume and Textiles Collection. Because wonderful things deserve to shared, I asked my dear friend Roxanne McGovern of 3Graces Jewelry to come along
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How to Lace Up A Corset By Yourself
Watch our new video to learn how to properly lace up a genuine steel boned corset. Visit our informational page for the free lacing diagram.
La Carmina Wears the Anatomist Corset in Oddities New Season Trailer
La Carmina can be seen wearing the Anatomist corset at 0:13 in this trailer for the new season of The Science Channel’s hit show Oddities! This television show follows all the interesting (and odd!) things that are bought and sold in Obscura, a unique antique store in NYC. It’s one of my favorite shows on TV right
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Photo Shoot in an Art Installation
I recently was introduced to artist Brian Reaume after seeing one of his beautiful installation pieces in the Por Vida gallery show which exhibited my Anatomist Corset in. What struck me about his work initially, was the way it smelled. As I walked into the installation enclosure, a warm scent of sandalwood and vanilla filled
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Madonna Corset Sells for $52,000
Bloomberg reports that a Gaultier corset worn by Madonna in her Blond Ambition tour sold at Christies auction house for $52,000.
Chamillionaire Music Video Corset
Our gold Deco Corset Dress was featured rather prominently in a new music video release promoting the video game Dead Island: Riptide. Here are some stills from the video No Room In Hell with the Grammy award wining and platinum selling artist Chamillionaire.
Red Cat Corset Complete
I’m packing up this cat corset right now to ship it off to a client in California and I thought I’d share it with you first.
We’re Featured in Chamillionaire’s New Music Video
Yesterday Chamillionare’s music video for No Room In Hell was released internationally to promote the highly anticipated video game Dead Island: Riptide. Our Deco Corset Dress can be seen starting at 3:26.
