Although the "pin-up" gets its name from the act of display it encourages, which might apply to any mass produced and widely distributed image, the term commonly identifies a more narrow category of pictures, from glossy portraits of...

A pin-up girl or pin-up model is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as pop culture. Pin-ups are intended for informal display. Pin-up girls are often glamour models, fashion models, and actresses. "Pin-up" may also refer to drawings,...

Helen of Troy may have launched a thousand ships but paper dolls in the form of movie star Betty Grable's gorgeous gams and artist George Petty's fetching "Petty Girls" inspired millions of servicemen They were cute, classy, and curvaceous; the epitome of feminine...

Byline: EARL SWIFT THE REAL BETTIE PAGE RICHARD FOSTER Birch Lane Press. 214 pp. $21.95. In the early 1950s a black-haired, blue-eyed Nashville woman named Bettie Page hung up her dreams of Hollywood stardom, and most of her clothes...

There are numerous stories circulating around town about what Sheana Hinesley was really doing before she became a designer. The most widely held account claims the auburn-haired beauty was working in a traveling circus prior to founding the playful lingerie line, Malicious Designs. But the...

Following the world premiere last Friday of the yet-to-be-acquired Thank You for Smoking at the Toronto International Film Festival, Adam Brody, one of the film’s stars, hung out in the makeshift V.I.P. room at the party being held in the Chanel Boutique on Bloor Street....