These outfits were completed by fine-gauge knitwear twin-sets, manufactured by stolidly British firm John Smedley, or occasionally an 18th Century corset revived and reworked for ready-to-wear ...

The Fashion Museum has an exceptional corset ... This corset dates from the end of the 18th century, around about the 1780s. It was probably made by a professional staymaker.

British designer Kim Jones, artistic director of Dior, received the prestigious Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in Paris ...