Sustainability is a hot topic these days. It seems like everyone I know is adjusting their lives in an attempt to help the environment in some small way, from eating less meat to taking fewer flights to buying less stuff. I’m definitely buying less – really, how many things does one person need? – but as is unsurprising for someone who writes for a website called The Lingerie Addict, my […]
Nothing compares to the experience of wearing silk. This beautiful, soft and lustrous fibre has long been associated with luxury. Silk has incredibly versatile properties. It’s breathable, and both cools and insulates. However, it’s also a delicate fabric requiring more care than your average t-shirt. Washing your silk lingerie shouldn’t be an especially different process to cleaning the rest of your lingerie wardrobe. Yet there are a few extra considerations […]
No collection in the history of lingerie has impacted me personally and professionally as much as the Jean Paul Gaultier for La Perla collaboration, ‘Collection Créateur.’ The first installment of the collaboration released at the very start of my lingerie studies. With 3-4 figure price tags on every garment, my student budget meant that these designs were a distant dream. Yet that didn’t stop me wandering wistfully around La Perla stores, […]
In the lingerie and apparel industry, sample garments are an everyday part of the production process. But for consumers, samples and the idea of a “sample size” are fraught with emotion. As the internet lifts the veil between the customer and the design team, more consumers are seeing samples in action and wondering: Why do they not sample in my size? If a brand makes samples in a small size, […]
Have you ever seen the same garment in a few different places, but with different brands or no brand at all? Many people assume that means some dubious – or even illegal! – copying going on, but today I’ll let you in on 5 secret industry processes you might have never known about before now! Yes, you read that right! There are at least 5 different ways identical products can […]
