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So This is Love...A Valentine's Day Editorial

Top half of Model with hands raised above chest, wearing Creepy Yeha full length sheer gloves. Love Vera lingerie bra straps visible.

Here is my Valentine's Day editorial, 10 days late, because during the week of love, I was trying to save a friend's life. Still am trying, in fact.

The details aren't mine to share publicly, especially not here, but I don't know if I've felt such a deep, profound, upswelling of Philia, the Greek word for the kind of platonic love between the very deepest of friends.

Right now, I am hurt. I am scared. I am angry. I am terrified. But most of all, I am helpless. I am watching someone I love disappear before my eyes and I am powerless to stop it. I can't will them to stay, and I've tried so hard.

I know I am fortunate. To be able to suspend my life, to leave town on the drop of a dime, to grieve profoundly. And if I had to do it all again, I would. For how can one put a price on love?

The world often talks about romantic love. The love of attraction. But what about the love between friends?

For the last two weeks, I've been drowning in tears. My face has grown a rich crop of pimples, like pins on a geographer's map. My soul is cut to the marrow, and I feel like my heart is breaking, splintering into pieces inside my chest.

I don't know, if the worst happens, if I will be okay.

I thought my 30s might bring a little peace. But what I've learned instead is that the calm never comes. Instead this will be a decade of changes. Of permanent shifts. In how you see yourself, and in how you see your others. I have learned things - horrible, terrible things - in the last two weeks I could never have imagined.

I am desperately trying to salvage my heart, to keep it from dying inside me, trying not to fall into that gap, that hollow place, that widening shadow of grief.

For it is the season of love. Even when it hurts.

Credits ~
Photography: Bảo Ngô
Makeup: Daylin Laine
Styling: Cora Harrington, The Lingerie Addict

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Model in love themed sheer lingerie. Love Vera white lingerie, with light pink garter straps attached to black Cervin stockings.

Lingerie: Love Vera. Stockings: Cervin. Gloves: Creepy Yeha.

Model in love themed sheer lingerie. Love Vera lingerie with heart shaped sequins visible. Creepy Yeha long gloves.

Lingerie: Love Vera. Stockings: Cervin. Gloves: Creepy Yeha.

Model sitting in love themed sheer lingerie, wearing Love Vera lingerie with sequins, Creepy Yeha gloves and Cervin stockings.

Lingerie: Love Vera. Stockings: Cervin. Gloves: Creepy Yeha.

Model in love themed lingerie. Kiss Me Deadly silk, brown, teddy with black, lace, bust, straps, and hemline. Karolina Laskowska circle ring choker. Yandy sheer tights with hexagonal pattern stitching.

Teddy: Kiss Me Deadly. Choker: Karolina Laskowska. Tights: Yandy.

Side profile of KMD silk and lace teddy with Karolina Laskowska choker, and Yandy sheer tights.

Teddy: Kiss Me Deadly. Choker: Karolina Laskowska. Tights: Yandy.

Upper body front profile of model wearing KMD silk and satin lingerie, Karolina Laskowska circle ring choker, Yandy sheer tights.

Teddy: Kiss Me Deadly. Choker: Karolina Laskowska. Tights: Yandy.

Model sitting, legs tucked, holding upside down dried flowers. KMD silk and lace lingerie, Yandy sheer tights.

Teddy: Kiss Me Deadly. Choker: Karolina Laskowska. Tights: Yandy.

Model in love themed lingerie gown. Pink, sheer Anya Lust gown with detailing on chest area. Model is midway through lifting and twirling hemline.

Gown: Anya Lust.

Front profile of model wearing Pink, sheer Anya Lust gown with detailing on chest area.

Gown: Anya Lust.

Model wearing Pink, sheer Anya Lust gown with detailing on chest area. Arms folded across body.

Gown: Anya Lust.

Model standing, wearing Pink, sheer Anya Lust gown with detailing on chest area. Holding up lace, handheld fan.

Gown: Anya Lust.


Cora Harrington

Founder and Editor in Chief of The Lingerie Addict. Author of In Intimate Detail: How to Choose, Wear, and Love Lingerie. I believe lingerie is fashion too, and that everyone who wants it deserves gorgeous lingerie.