‘THE FINAL COLLECTION’ – PART 5 Metaphorically speaking, I seem to have hit that “wall” that runners get. After all the excitement and adrenaline that was anticipating the photo shoo...
‘THE FINAL COLLECTION’ – PART 4 With only five weeks to go till graduation, the countdown begins in earnest for the photo shoot — another notch on the merry-go-round of Contour that ...
All eyes will be on England this weekend for the Diamond Jubilee festivities marking the Queen’s 60 years on the throne. And while the Jubilee celebrations haven’t generated quite as much...
‘THE FINAL COLLECTION’ – PART 3 Seven weeks to go! A freak heat wave has hit England this week, which naturally leads everybody to believe it is summer and take this fact seriously i...
‘THE FINAL COLLECTION’ – PART 2 The countdown to Final Collection officially begins in January, although from day one of university it’s been on everyone’s minds. Inspiration folders...
FIRST IN A SERIES I am a final year lingerie design student at De Montfort University in Leicester, England, one of a very few universities in the world to offer a degree specializing in the construc...
Tyra Banks made headlines yesterday with an important ‘open letter to models’ in The Daily Beast, supporting the decision by Vogue to ban models who appear to have an eating disorder. Mos...
Yes ladies, the bittersweet reality of swimwear season is upon us! With hot weather and outdoor lifestyles around the corner after a long winter of hibernating, it can be a shock getting used to the ...
The French sure do love a good revolution, especially when it involves a populist uprising against a privileged elite. Or, as they are singing ensemble in Paris today, Au revoir, M. Sarkozy! So it wa...
If you’re young, blonde and white, consider yourself lucky: you’ve won the trifecta of sexiness. If you’re none of those things, give up already. At least that seems to be the messa...
Valeria (left) and Silvia Campello of Cosabella. Each of us owes an incalculable debt to our moms, and Mother’s Day often seems like an insufficient way to pay them back. Still, it’s a go...
The way she’s going, Kriss Soonik is going to have to come with a new word to describe her utterly unrivaled, offbeat undergarments. It’s not just lingerie, and it’s grown beyond th...
The gods and goddesses of ancient mythology are big business once again, thanks to CGI-powered blockbuster films like The Immortals, Wrath of the Titans and many others like them. But those cartoonis...
The new lingerie collection from reigning ultramodel Gisele Bündchen begs an obvious question: how long (or how soon) till this label makes its way to boutiques in New York, London, Paris and eve...
If you missed National Lingerie Day on Tuesday, don’t feel too bad — you weren’t alone. Most people (like me) were completely unaware of the occasion and found out too late in the da...
When Lizzie Haines finished her life-changing year as the winner of Curvy Kate‘s 2011 ‘Star in a Bra‘ contest, she sent a surprise to the UK lingerie label’s office: a handmad...
I doubt we’ll see a more memorable photo shoot this year than this epically stunning series featuring 83-year-old model Daphne Selfe. Courageous, original and breathtakingly beautiful, the port...
Agent Provocateur has become such a fixture in the high-fashion mainstream that it’s easy to forget the lingerie superbrand was literally a child of the 1970s British punk-rock movement, the fa...
I first caught a glimpse of this head-turning print from Zinke‘s debut swim collection at a trade show last summer and, as JLo would say, got instant goosies. Bright, busy and colorful, Zinke&#...
The color of the sky and sea, both calming and energizing, blue symbolizes trust, confidence, intelligence and truth. This season, blue is everywhere to be found and lingerie is no exception. Here ar...
Leave it to Made By Niki to take an increasingly familiar trend and turn it on its head. With its latest capsule collection, the award-winning UK label offers a new spin on trendy bandage-wrapping &#...
A wide variety of lingerie ensembles ranging from couture labels like Carine Gilson to mass-market brands like Guess get a wonderful showcase in this delicious photo spread from the current issue of ...
Few designers could have gotten away with the kind of left-field lunacy that Jean Paul Gaultier brings to his new gig as the celebrity ‘creative director’ for Diet Coke‘s latest Eur...
Victoria’s Secret is all about one thing: giving you the goods to show off your assets to optimal effect. And when we say assets we mean, of course, asses. Wait a minute. What the hell? VS is b...
Few fashion retailers do as good a job blending their clothing and underwear collections as Free People. The trendy boho chic label’s FP Intimately lingerie range has always complemented its st...
The current wave of nostalgia for lingerie styles of the 1950s and 1960s owes a lot to Lillian Bassman, the legendary New York fashion photographer who passed away in February at age 94. Bassman shot...
There have countless Mad Men-inspired collections and marketing tie-ins from fashion lingerie labels in the past couple of years. But one name was conspicuously missing in the giddy rush to revisit t...
Is Easter an appropriate occasion for lingerie gift-giving? The answer probably depends on who’s giving, who’s receiving and whether your libertine tendencies are more Gingrich than Santo...
I know it sounds impossible, but if ANYthing can make Carson Kressley blush it might be spending a few hours surrounded by lingerie while women tell him their most embarrassing secrets. How much fun ...
I’ve been walking around all morning humming ‘Zou Bisou Bisou‘ while doing chores. So why do I feel so … guilty? You know the song: it was Jessica Paré‘s big star-ma...
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