Topic: Catherine Ormen

The French sure know how to put together a book. L’histoire de la Lingerie (The History of Lingerie), by Chantal Thomass and Catherine Ormen, comes inside a small pink box and is carefully wrapped in black tissue paper. And while the book itself is an exhaustively researched tome that covers everything from corsets to Bardot, even non-French speakers can enjoy out the gorgeous quality photographs that trace the history of women’s undergarments. More »