Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Previously seen on Cora’s list o’ lust, Her Sexcellency from Von Follies by Dita Von Teese is a sleek overwire bra smoothing shapewear dress. Like Madam X, I was able to get Her Sexcellency as a special order through Dark Garden, which was one of the first US retailers of the line and threw a special meet and greet launch party with Dita herself. I […]
This past Sunday, I got to meet burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese. I wasn’t alone, of course. Dita was doing a meet and greet at Dark Garden Unique Corsetry to promote her Von Follies lingerie line as well as her perfumes, both of which are exclusively available within San Francisco at Dark Garden. Dark Garden has been Dita’s “go-to corsetmaker for the past 15 years,” and I’ve been working there for […]
Disclosure: This blog post contains an affiliate link. I don’t talk about it often, but I have a bit of a thing for beautiful shapewear. There’s this idea, in America at least, that shapewear is only for people who want to slim down (see the ubiquitous “the model doesn’t need shapewear” comment whenever the subject comes up online), and an even worse notion that shapewear is a strictly utilitarian garment… […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. The newest Dita von Teese Lingerie collection has dropped, and let me just say… it is amazing. Last year, when the first Von Follies collection was released through Target Australia, I felt a bit underwhelmed. The pieces were nice enough, it’s true, but none of them screamed “Buy me!” (quite unlike Ms. Von Teese’s Wonderbra collections from a few years before, which was stellar). […]
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. While Target is in the news stateside for the circus that was the Jason Wu collection this week, they’re in the news for an entirely different reason in Australia… the release of Dita von Teese’s latest lingerie line, ‘Von Follies by Dita von Teese.’ Dita’s been releasing sneak peeks of her upcoming collection since November (several of which I posted to The Lingerie Addict […]
