Nothing sculpts the body as quickly and effectively as a well-made corset. Unfortunately, because modern clothes are often cut to a very straight proportion, the effect is often lost just as quickly. If you’ve been waist training and find your corset styling efforts thwarted by the loose waistlines of your clothes, then this is the post for you! Here are several corset accessories I’ve used to great effect to show off my cinched […]
The plus size part of the lingerie market has taken off in the past few years, in part because companies have finally realized plus size consumers have money and are willing to pay for access to lingerie and other fashion items. We’ve seen this most recently with Nordstrom picking up the Addition Elle line, but it’s clear many companies have figured out that plus size customers want to shop just as much […]
Maly Siri’s illustrations are… well, iconic. It’s hard to ignore the power of these vintage-styled images. Maly Siri’s work is both traditionally glamorous and playful. In one series she substitutes the Robbie the Robot for the conventional 1950s husband; in another she depicts circus performers, including conjoined twin banjo players, in the pinup style. Maly Siri’s work has range: it can be hyper-real, cartoony, and several places in between. The […]
I realized recently that it’s been more than a year since I started writing a queer lingerie column at The Lingerie Addict. When I started, I had a strong love of lingerie, especially the discount kind. But beyond that, I had very little idea how I was going to make this work. I didn’t think I photographed well and I didn’t know how to write article copy. But oh, so […]
When I first started my lingerie brand ‘Karolina Laskowska’ in the Summer of 2012, I was pretty optimistic about the future. The brand had begun with wholesale requests and my own online shop was doing far better than I’d expected. Everything was new and very little seemed more exciting than the prospect of finding more stockists and joining the lingerie world as a proper lingerie brand. Fast forward three years […]
