Researchers have just uncovered the 600-year-old lingerie. This discovery upsets historical knowledge. Here is a find that shakes the world of lingerie: the bra is not a modern invention. Archaeologists from the University of Innsbruck in Austria have announced that they have found in the castle of Lengberg four bras dating from the Middle Ages. Historians of fashion generally agreed that the appearance of this underwear was the abandonment of the corset, more than 100 years ago. If the prototype was patented in 1859 in New York, the name “bra” appears in 1904 in the Larousse dictionary and in 1912, under the name of “brassière”, in the...

The world’s largest rough diamond, valued at more than $ 70 million, will be auctioned on June 29 in London, Sotheby’s auction house said Wednesday. This rough stone, named “Lesedi La Rona”, was discovered nine months ago in Botswana, by the diamond mining company Lucara. “It’s a 1.109 carat diamond, it’s the largest diamond ever discovered in over 100 years,” Sotheby’s international jewelry president David Bennett said Wednesday in New York. He added that it was the first time that a rough diamond of this size was being auctioned. He will be exhibited in New York until Sunday, before joining...