INDIA, Dec. 3 -- We blinked, and suddenly the era of oversized everything began to loosen its grip. One moment we were committed to slouchy denim and comfort-core silhouettes, and the next, structure was flirting its way back into fashion's storyline. Enter: the corset - not the prim historical relic you'd expect, but the 2025 iteration that's bold, sculpted, and unapologetically here to take up space.

Corsetry didn't arrive out of nowhere. Its earliest ancestors trace back to 16th-century Europe, where royal courts embraced rigid silhouettes as symbols of status, posture and restraint. By the Victorian era, the corset had become a cultural blueprint, engineered with whalebone, metal busks and meticulous lacing to carve out the coveted h...