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Raised on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Lonstein began designing clothes out of necessity: she made her own bras and bathing suits when she had trouble finding any to fit her ample breasts and pencil-thin lower body. "I love clothing more than anything else," she confided over hot cider at a neighborhood lounge. "I almost walk through stores like one would walk through museums." After graduating from U.C.L.A. in 1997 with a dual degree in history and art history, she apprenticed at a lingerie company, where she learned that "it takes 38 pieces to construct a bra." Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Her Fashion: Jerry Who? | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

Advice for the modern teen idol: there's more to it than just cashing royalty checks and autographing training bras. There are difficult issues that must be faced. For instance, some toy company may want to measure your face so that it can manufacture dolls with your likeness. You could make a lot of money selling them to your youngest fans, but then your older fans--the 12- and 13-year-olds--would think you're babyish and move on to Hanson. And then there's all the choreography you have to remember while you're trying to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Big Poppa's Bubble Gum Machine | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

About 20 undergraduates stripped down to boxers and bras in the main-reading room of the library, while other students studied around them...

Author: By Rachel K. Sobel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Studying Studs Strip In Dudley Tradition | 1/20/1999 | See Source »

Homosexuality gives gay men license to see or do just about anything when it comes to their straight female friends. Schrefer says girls will walk around him in bras without a second thought. Jim C. Augustine '01 has discovered there is practically nothing he can say that would be offensive. "Just last night I was dancing around the street and making fun of this guy and saying, 'I'm a heterosexual man. Who likes breasts. Breasts are good. Yeah,'" he says. "No straight guy could get away with that...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, | Title: My Guy | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...opening of "Pas de Quatre" entailed the four statuesque dancers en pointe, fluttering across the stage in symmetrical configurations. As each attempted to outdo the next with instant charm gushing out of the numerous pas de bras and arabesques, it became humorously evident that the small Conservatory stage was not expansive enough to accommodate the simulated egos of such tutu-ed princesses. The simplicity of the choreography complimented the complex interplay of rivaling ballerinas, and each dancer carried off her role with distinct glares and cross-stage sneers...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Legends of Dance | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

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