Recently, someone in the Lingerie Addict Facebook group asked if lingerie brands could design custom lace. I started typing out a response, but quickly realised it’s a very complex question to answer. One about which I have entirely too much to say. The fashion industry as a whole tends to be quite closed off to customer education, so there isn’t a whole lot of public information about manufacturing or fabrics. […]
Maude Nibelungen is the founder and designer behind her eponymous avant-garde knitwear label Maude Nibelungen. Whether you are a lingerie novice or expert, you’ve probably heard of the “lingerie as outerwear” trend. It’s an easy trend to understand; with the variety of beautiful underthings available and the amount of money one can spend on them, it only seems logical to want to share these purchases with the world. Lingerie as […]
It’s been over a year since our last lingerie bloggers list, and the lingerie blogosphere, like the rest of the internet, has changed a great deal. Most lingerie blogs reside on Instagram now. While a very few are also hosted on sites like Tumblr, by and large, the brief halcyon days of long-form lingerie blogging are at an end. In an era that’s preoccupied with shorter, disappearing, unsearchable content (Instagram, […]
Autumn/Winter 2017 saw an intimate apparel market inundated with velvet lingerie. While velvet, a plush, luxurious textile noted for its soft, warm “pile” is always a popular winter fabric, this is the first season I recall seeing it in practically every type of lingerie – from bras to knickers to robes to teddies to pajamas. My favorite take on the velvet trend, at least for intimates, is devoré or burnout […]
Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. As you already know, January is chock-full of “New Year, New You” advice. Though it may sound cliché, I do love the beginning of the year because it’s an opportunity (or an excuse) to make a fresh start, to try or do things you might have been afraid to the year before. Inevitably, a lot of lingerie advice around this time of year […]
