While bridal fashion trends come and go, there’s a particularly distinct silhouette currently making waves: the basque waist. Defined by a dramatic V- or U-shaped dip where the bodice meets the skirt, ...

Over the past 40 years, our waists have thickened by four inches. In the Fifties and Sixties, the average British woman boasted an enviable hourglass shape with her 36B-24-36 statistics.

American males, it has been calculated, spend some $3 billion a year to gaze at women with hourglass figures, those whose small waists blossom into sinuously curvy hips. Men rate women as most ...

What feels more powerful, stronger, is the idea of asserting ownership over what’s going on below our waists. Courtesy of Alaia A look from Alaia's fall 2025 collection Enter the power hips ...