Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. I’ve always found that there’s something totally irresistible about antique and vintage textiles. Be it printed silks or exquisite laces, fabrics from bygone eras seem to have so much more care put into them that modern equivalents pale a little in comparison. Our modern culture of fast and disposable fashion has done away with the care and delicacy that was once so commonplace. Victorian […]
When Angela Friedman showed me a sneak preview of her Autumn/Winter range way back in April, I was, for lack of a better word, awestruck. So many lingerie labels adopt the word “luxury” into their brandspeak, but very few actually convey that refined, elegant, timeless sense of opulence luxury lingerie really gives you (or at least should give you). Angela Friedman’s latest collection is very obviously vintage-inspired, but it doesn’t feel […]
Sparklewren corsetry, photography by Peter Laskowski I’m a strong believer that if you’re going to spend a lot of money on something, it should be spectacular, particularly when it comes to lingerie. I’m not the most practical of people, and aesthetics tend to override practicality in almost every area of life. If I’m going buy an expensive piece of lingerie, I want it to be something beautiful – especially if […]
Last week, I posted about my trip to the Lace Embrace Antique Corset Exhibition and Historical Fashion Show. Just before this year’s fashion show, Melanie Talkington, the founder of Lace Embrace, also did an antique lingerie dressing sequence typical of a woman during the Edwardian period. I filmed the entire thing on my iPhone, and now the video is up on YouTube to watch. It’s incredibly fascinating, and I hope […]
Over the weekend, I had the immense pleasure of attending the third annual Lace Embrace Antique Corset Exhibition and Fashion Show. The exhibit and fashion show is a fundraiser for the corsetiere behind Lace Embrace Atelier, Melanie Talkington. You see, Ms. Talkington is not only an expert corsetiere with a client list that includes names like Dita von Teese and Cathie Jung, she also has the largest private collection of […]
