In the 1920s a new and popular model of modern womanhood dominated the American cultural scene. Although not all American women of the early twentieth century would emulate the flapper model, that model quickly came to represent the youthful exuberance...

The term flapper in the 1920s referred to a "new breed" of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to the new Jazz music, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. The flappers were seen as brash...

Beaded dresses, cloche hats, dropped waists and Art Deco fabrics... the Twenties and Thirties are making a comeback on the catwalk, says Katherine Ormerod The effervescent spirit of the Jazz Age informs many of the looks for the spring/summer collections. From dropped waists...

Whatever method of inspecting labels a packaging line uses, it has to be done fast and done right. People must be able to read what's in the can, and the cans have to look good in the store. Labels have to make it onto...

France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, went to author Gilles Leroy on Monday for his "Alabama Song," a story written in the first person but inspired by the descent into folly of the wife of famed novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald.Last year, the Goncourt Prize went...

Late last night at Simon Hammerstein and Richard Kimmel’s celeb-infested, serially newsworthy Lower East Side cabaret, The Box, the actress Leelee Sobieski wore a top-hat and slinky tank top and carried a mold of her own skull (it had been commissioned for an upcoming...

"Flappers" in the 1920s were young women who disregarded conventional rules of conduct and dress. Sometimes referred to as rebels, flappers changed the status and role of all women because of their drastic modification in their actions and clothing, their self-governing attitudes, their demand for the same equality as men, and their pristine style. Flappers embodied the modern spirit of the Jazz Age and paved the way for women today to live as they please.