August 3, 2001
Who Can Stomach Fashion?
Stroll down the street this summer or take in a movie at the local multiplex, and chances are you'll see a sea of bare midriffs: plain, tattooed, navel-ringed, hard, even soft. And that's just the men. Why is the belly suddenly in our face? We asked three experts to explain.
Valerie Steele, chief curator and acting director of the museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology and author of The Corset: A Cultural History (forthcoming, Yale University Press):
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