A roundup of everything interesting that happened in the world of lingerie this month… [The Business of Fashion] Victoria’s Secret Loses Trademark Battle Against Thomas Pink – Although the Pink label had been launched by Victoria’s Secret in 2004, a line aimed at college-aged girls, Judge Colin Birss recently decreed that the massive lingerie brand had infringed on the trademark rights owned by London-based brand Thomas Pink Ltd. Often times trademark disputes come down […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. It’s an annoyance many a friend has lamented: It’s nearly impossible to wear matching underwear on a daily basis. The average woman owns about three to four times as many panties as she does bras and takes special care to wash them after each use, while alternately, bras can usually go two to four wears before requiring laundering. With these statistics, it’s easy to […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. After a hiatus of several seasons, the Victoria’s Secret “Designer Collection” has returned. The first high-end Designer Collection debuted with much fanfare in January 2012, but since then I’ve heard very little about new collections. In fact, it was beginning to seem like VS had given up on making headway into this market. My first impression of this new collection is that it’s a […]
Last week, the internet was all afire with the news that Victoria’s Secret, probably the most famous lingerie company in the world, would not be making bras for women who’ve had mastectomies. In case you haven’t yet heard of this story, Allana Maiden (whose mother is a breast cancer survivor) created a Change.org petition a few months ago asking Victoria’s Secret to begin making and selling mastectomy bras. Victoria’s Secret […]
I still cringe and scrunch up my face at the name. (Ask my friends!) And while I don’t have the exact date in mind of our official break up, I do know it was somewhere around 2004. Having been loyal through my late high school and college years, I couldn’t imagine any another life. After all, what I’d seen in newspapers (yes those old things!), magazines, and catalogs for years […]
