After a bit of a slow-down, 2015 was a great year for lingerie blogs. Sometimes, it feels like this little blog niche is just barely hanging on, especially when compared to the larger (and more well-known) worlds of fashion and beauty blogging. As a group, intimate apparel focused bloggers are a rare sort. There are usually only a few dozen of us active at any one time, and while we’re […]
Today’s guest post is by longtime TLA reader C.L. Bigelow, a sculptor who works in mixed media. Her materials of choice are primarily cast-off materials and what is considered detritus. She calls her approach “making one new whole from many disparate parts.” You can see her work at clbigelow-studios.com. Today’s lingerie marketers are getting smarter about including models with a wider range of body sizes, genders, sexual orientations, skin colors, […]
We’re barely into 2016, and I’ve already been made breathless twice. While Karolina is TLA’s resident lace expert, I feel even the novice lingerie connoisseur could surely understand the sensual appeal of corded ivory French lace. Freolic London’s ‘Grace’ dress is an arresting conceptual piece, beautifully executed. There’s something very deliberately excessive about this dress in a way that feels reminiscent, to me, of the 80’s (although with no shoulder […]
I’ve spent a lot of time recently pondering the term ‘handmade’; it’s a difficult word to dissect at the best of times but becomes particularly complex in the realm of lingerie. As a lingerie designer, a large part of my brand currently relies on the notion that my products are ‘handmade’. Almost every garment that leaves my studio doors was sewn by me from start to finish. Yet as we […]
As you’ve probably noticed, featuring beautiful lingerie imagery is part and parcel of what The Lingerie Addict is about. A good lookbook tells the story of the brand, and shares everything from their aesthetic to their target customer. Over the past year, our Features Editor has selected dozens of lookbooks to show on TLA, but according to Google Analytics, these ten were your favorites. 10. Ysé Lingerie – This French […]
