One of my favorite things to do is to follow up with a brand we covered in their early days, and see how or if they’ve evolved. After years of writing about intimates, it’s become very easy to tell which designers have a strong point of view. Even if you disagree with some of the details or the execution, there’s something to be admired about a brand having a perspective […]
Wow, 2017 really got away from me. At the beginning of the year, I felt extremely confident about being able to both write a book and also keep to TLA’s regular posting schedule. Turns out I was naive. So, so naive. A book is a ravenous, jealous beast that will devour all your time and energy and then some. And while I feel truly blessed and fortunate to have been […]
Rose is a gender enigma and lingerie enthusiast interested in how art, especially fashion, collides with social movements. S/he is working on a fantasy novel about queer youth (and is also a former columnist at The Lingerie Addict). Serena Rees, the co-founder of Agent Provocateur, who has been absent from the lingerie world since the sale of the brand in 2007, has been making the news lately with the launch […]
Disclosure: Emma Wyatt Photography gifted The Lingerie Addict with this photoshoot. All thoughts are my own. Sometimes, these lingerie photoshoot posts are the hardest to write. I want to tell you everything about the experience: what inspired it and what the weather was like that day and how it felt to wear the garments and silly jokes the photographer and I made. But then I wonder if anyone else wants […]
Every few months, some major website writes a press release disguised as an article about a lingerie start-up “disrupting” the intimate apparel industry. Whether the brand claims to revolutionize manufacturing, sizes or style, there’s always a statement about turning the lingerie industry on its head, accompanied by a boast about how the world of lingerie will never be the same. But overall, the world of lingerie is the same. Most […]
