NEW YORK – Remember when American former journalist Lauren Sanchez lashed her waist with laces and boning until it was so tiny, you could wrap your hands around it? Of course you remember, given that her wedding to American businessman Jeff Bezos was all of a few months ago.

There was also a time when a woman squished into a piece of vintage gossamer silk sprinkled with sequins. That was all the way back in 2022, when American reality TV star Kim Kardashian strained the seams of Marilyn Monroe’s “Happy Birthday, Mr President” dress.