I always love talking about Fleur of England here on The Lingerie Addict. There are a ton of luxury lingerie brands out there — more than I keep track of — but there are a depressingly small number of names that I think really reflect true luxury. As you’ve probably guessed, Fleur of England is one. The things Fleur can do with silk and lace and satin are, simply, amazing […]
A few weeks ago, I was in Portland attending a blog conference, when I caught sight of a familiar slip in a store window. The store was Folly, and the slip was one I’d recently seen in a local Seattle boutique. Unable to resist checking out some new lingerie, I walked in and turns out the owner of the boutique was also the same person who’d designed those beautiful slips […]
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 […]
