What do pencils and poodles have in common? Or hoops and hobbles? They're skirts, of course. For designer Christian Siriano, the skirt is a transformative piece of clothing. The options are endless: ...

The fashion world brims with origin stories. There’s Coco Chanel popularizing the little black dress in the cocktail culture of the 1920s. There’s Mary Quant staking claim to the miniskirt in London’s ...

Juli Lynne Charlot was married to a viscount when she developed designs worn by the future Queen Elizabeth and a bevy of teenagers. This article is also available as a weekly newsletter, “Life Stories ...

Hedy Phillips is the Senior Style News Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously appeared in POPSUGAR, HelloGiggles, Reader's Digest and more. Getty Juli ...

Explore the poodle skirt's surprising origin! Learn about the creator Juli Lynne Charlot and her festive Christmas skirt that started a fashion craze. Medicare update: Major change sparks alarm from ...

Your mental image of the 1950s might be reduced to a girl wearing saddle shoes and a poodle skirt, sipping a milkshake at a diner while the jukebox blares, but the decade was much broader than that.

From her "Bad Sandy" all-black look at the carnival to her uniform of poodle skirts and polos, "Grease" star Olivia Newton-John established Sandy Olsson as a '50s style icon. As the world pays respect ...

Charlot died on Sunday, according to The New York Times at her home in Tepoztlán, Mexico. She was born in New York on Oct. 26, 1922, named Shirley Agin, according to People Magazine and the Times. She ...