Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. When the first World War exploded in the late summer of 1914, armies took the ...

A new exhibition, Silk and Steel: French Fashion, Women and WWI, uses the lens of fashion to examine how the war impacted women’s domestic lives and created new opportunities. Trench warfare. The ...

An exhibition at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Mo., explores what wartime women wore — from overalls to evening gowns —... In 1939, anticipating the German invasion of Paris in ...

It is the easiest thing in the world to laud guitarist Luke Hendon's album Silk & Steel as something to be treasured by anyone who is remotely interested in the style of Django Reinhardt. It is ...

Silk Tuesday, BBC 1, 9pm Maxine Peake got pointers from a High Court judge at the Old Bailey when she researched her starring role in legal drama Silk. The actress admits she was petrified when ...

Swedish scientist Dr. Anna Rising was among a team of researchers to discover how to synthesize artificial spider silk. She says they hope to use the strong silk in medical applications and textiles.

In a number of cases, our finest manufacturing techniques haven't touched the materials that a few billion years of evolution have produced. Carefully tuned biochemistry can take a collection of ...

Is Joan of Arc a fashion icon? The idea makes perfect sense in the context of “Love & War: The Weaponized Woman,” a bombshell of a show at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. The ...