For years, fuller busted women have been wanting access to high-end, luxurious lingerie like their smaller busted counterparts, and now there’s a new brand here to meet that demand. Harlow and Fox is a luxury label out of the UK designing exclusively for the full-busted woman. They offer bras in sizes 30-38 DD-G and knickers in UK sizes 8-18 (US sizes 4-14). The first parts of the collection will be […]
When Angela Friedman showed me a sneak preview of her Autumn/Winter range way back in April, I was, for lack of a better word, awestruck. So many lingerie labels adopt the word “luxury” into their brandspeak, but very few actually convey that refined, elegant, timeless sense of opulence luxury lingerie really gives you (or at least should give you). Angela Friedman’s latest collection is very obviously vintage-inspired, but it doesn’t feel […]
Buttress & Snatch is a British brand famous for two things: 1) their vintage-inspired and completely theatrical burlesque style and 2) their commitment to making all their lingerie by hand in the UK. Founded in 1999 by Rachel Kenyon, Buttress & Snatch counts celebrities like Madonna, Christina Aguilera and Beth Ditto among its clients. Almost all the pieces have frills or ruffles or crystals or roses because this is lingerie […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. A couple of weeks ago, I saw the latest Marie Antoinette-inspired flick, ‘Farewell, My Queen’ which is based on the book of the same name by Chantal Thomas. Unlike most treatments of Marie Antoinette, which more or less cover her life from birth thru death, this particular movie (and the novel it’s based on) focuses only on the tumultuous three days after the storming […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. We’re only halfway through March, and I think La Perla’s latest ad campaign may already be a contender for the best of 2012. The photos are fresh, fashion-forward, and, of course, breathtakingly beautiful. Best of all, they pay homage to vintage editorials without actually becoming vintage editorials. Bravo, La Perla, bravo. Please, pretty please do more of this. Select items available from Journelle and […]
