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 […]
Disclosure: This lingerie was purchased with my own money. All opinions are my own. It seems to be a milestone in most lingerie designer’s lives: counterfeit versions of their designs appearing on websites like AliExpress and eBay. I first noticed these at the start of my design career. My strappy harnesses and frame bras appeared on these websites with alarming frequency. Whilst one could argue these were generic designs in […]
I’ve fallen behind in a lot of areas these last few months, and one of them has been posting new photoshoots to the blog. One of my goals for this year (which I didn’t reveal because I’m afraid of failure – something I’m working on) was to do a new lingerie editorial every month in 2017. Ever since my Night Witch photoshoot with Lars Kommienezuspadt back in 2015, I’ve become […]
