Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. A guest post by Catherine Clavering of Kiss Me Deadly. Trade shows are a weird environment — an entirely temporary market installation, full of brands and buyers, all slightly traumatised by the perpetually orange lighting and lack of air. On the upside, it’s always nice to see your colleagues as they are veritable hives of gossip. Most brands who can, will exhibit at a […]
It’s been over a year since the last Why do Lingerie Retailers…? feature, and in this one I’m asking Catherine something that’s been on my mind for awhile. A lot of indie designers don’t get their entire collection, or even all their sizes, stocked by the boutiques who carry them. In addition, many lingerie boutiques are out of the way for the average lingerie consumer (after all, we don’t all […]
I first ran across Jolies Mômes ‘combishort’ (what I usually call a romper) on Pinterest weeks ago. Pinterest gets a lot of flack (and rightly so) for stripping away the names of artists and designers, but in this case, it introduced me to a lovely French designer I’d never heard of before. While all the pieces in Jolies Mômes webstore are beautiful, the definitive standout is loose and loungey playsuit […]
I often say that now is a really exciting time to be talking about lingerie, and designers like Creepy Yeha illustrate exactly why. I first heard about Creepy Yeha through a message on The Lingerie Addict Tumblr (directing me to this super cute vinyl and lace shelf bra), and now I find myself more and more intrigued by this new designer’s unique aesthetic. There are a lots of young designers […]
For years, fuller busted women have been wanting access to high-end, luxurious lingerie like their smaller busted counterparts, and now there’s a new brand here to meet that demand. Harlow and Fox is a luxury label out of the UK designing exclusively for the full-busted woman. They offer bras in sizes 30-38 DD-G and knickers in UK sizes 8-18 (US sizes 4-14). The first parts of the collection will be […]
