Around 1951, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigated the corset and brassiere industry due to widespread abuses and illegalities in this industry.
An estimated 140 million people were watching the show when at the end, pop star Justin Timberlake popped off part of Janet Jackson's corset, exposing her breast.
Cathie Jung (born 1937) is an American Victorian dress and corset enthusiast residing in Old Mystic, Connecticut, United States, who currently holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest waist on a living person.
Justice Samuel Freeman Miller was the sole dissenter in this case, disagreeing with the majority about the “public” nature of Frances’ use of the corset-steels.
Henri Boutet (1851 Sainte-Hermine, Vendée - 9 June 1919 Paris), "le Petit Maître au corset", was a French Belle Époque artist whose work focused on the genre "La Parisienne".
Famous factories included Wheeler & Wilson, which produced sewing machines and exported them throughout the world, Remington UMC, Bridgeport Brass, General Electric Company, American Graphophone Company (Columbia Records), Warner Brothers Corset Company (Warnaco) and the Locomobile Company of America, builder of one of the premier automobiles in the early years of the century.
Michelle Rodriguez DJed the event and supermodel Veronica Webb showcased a "space lace" corset made of injection-molded fiberglass, designed by Dara Young.