Another lingerie market season has come and gone and I’m excited to share what I’m most excited about for the Autumn/Winter 2014 collections. Most of my time was spent at CurveNY, the massive trade show featuring hundreds of brands both large and well-known and small and up-and-coming. My approach to walking the floor was really to see what wowed me. What had a story. What demonstrated a new approach or innovation in […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. In what’s apparently become a new Lingerie Addict tradition, I got sick again during this season’s lingerie market and wound up bedridden, most regrettably during most of our industry’s big lingerie tradeshow, CurveNY. Honestly, for the last few weeks, I’ve been debating if I should even write a market week roundup. Most of my photos are on my iPhone and were meant, not for […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Every six months, I go to New York and Las Vegas (and sometimes Paris) to get a sneak peek at next season’s lingerie trends. That time of year is called “Lingerie Market” and though it only lasts for a few short weeks, these are the most important days of the entire year for your favorite lingerie brands. Lingerie Market is when orders are made, […]
This year’s New York lingerie market will go down in infamy, at least for me. Not only did I come down with an epic case of the flu, all of my photos (which The Fiance, being the super awesome guy he is, came to the show with me to take) have disappeared from my camera. That makes coverage a little harder than usual, but not impossible, thanks to wonders of […]
Perusing the racks at your favorite lingerie boutique, you admire a beautiful bra set carefully displayed on the mannequin. Yet when you check the tag…sticker shock! How can such a tiny piece of clothing cost so much? In part one of this series I talked about fabrics and trims, and in part two I discussed the actual creation and design of lingerie. In this final installment, let’s talk about those invisible costs you don’t […]
