Hysteria, the new film by director Tanya Wexler, fictionalizes the real life story of Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville, a Victorian doctor who invented the first electric vibrator in the 1880s, which was later patented and sold in 1902 by the American company Hamilton Beach. The film examines how Dr. Granville's invention was used to cure…
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JOHN GALLIANO - PARIS F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Bill Gaytten, in his second season at the helm of the John Galliano fashion house, offered up a subversive collection worthy of Galliano, himself. The super short hems, hourglass silhouettes, thigh-highs and transparency all suggested a Victorian woman come undone, but, in fact, the main inspiration came…