A product promising to help people look thin has given its inventor a big fat wallet. Thanks to her ingenious idea to combine insecurity, enormous underpants, and elastic sausage casings, Sara Blakely, the forty-one-year-old inventor of Spanx, is now the world's youngest female self-made billionaire.
Spanx Are Just A Girdle By Another Name
Spanx are obviously huge, and getting bigger. How — and why — did the girdle come back?
Spanx Helps Men To Banish Their Beer Bellies
Are men really clamoring to dance around the house trying to squeeze into shapewear disguised as a crewneck and "compression bottoms?" According to Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx, men are beyond ready for some extra assistance.
Spanx To Expand Into Clothing Line
Spanx founder Sara Blakely just launched Haute Contour, a line of prettier shapewear, but for her next project she's planning to stop hiding her wares under women's skirts and pants by creating a clothing line.
The Pros And Cons Of Girdles
Recently, while looking at retro-inspired dresses online, I stumbled across something called a "corselette" and gasped. Unlike the gossamer demi-cup bras and bare thongs you see in popular lingerie catalogs, the thing was actually sexy. Mysterious, seductive, cheeky. Coincidentally, Daphne Merkin wrote a piece for…
