Jen Wang is a cartoonist/author living in Los Angeles. She’s also one of the minds behind the gorgeous and inclusive celebration of comics, Comic Arts LA, an annual convention held in the city. I was ...

In excerpts from her new book, Angela Kelly, dressmaker and confidant to the Queen, reveals how she painstakingly recreated the royal heirloom using Yorkshire tea When it came to recreating the royal ...

“The Dressmaker” was clearly intended to be a ravishing creation, but it’s patched together from such a ragbag of scraps that it can’t be called a success. Despite highly enjoyable moments and the ...

As the father of a young woman — a woman has now has her own children — I am particularly interested in stories that involve women. Particularly stories involving the roles that women have played in ...

“The Dressmaker” exists in an odd lull in Winslet’s career. Post-Oscar win for “The Reader,” she appeared in a slew of OK period films (“A Little Chaos,” “Labor Day,” “Steve Jobs”) and the “Divergent” ...

Kate Winslet can do anything … except save this movie from quirky overkill. The Dressmaker, based on a 2000 novel by Rosalie Ham, gives the actress a hell of a role. She’s Tilly Dunnage, a 1950’s ...

Fringe, a hot trend from red carpets to runways, is used on pillows, skirts and window treatments. Jessup likes the buillon fringe, which is thick and made up of long twisted loops of yarn covered in ...

Don’t let the Merchant-Ivory-ish title and the highbrow cred of its star Kate Winslet fool you: “The Dressmaker” is no corset-tightening display of manners. Aussie director Jocelyn Moorhouse’s first ...