Lingerie boutiques

This Week’s Intimate Discovery:  Pret-A-Porter Glamour is Re-Launched in the Intimate Market

[lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”http://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Pleasure-State-Couture-211-Opal-MWL-1.jpg”][/lightbox]It was really a thrill last week to be invited[lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”http://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Untitled-5-a.jpg”][/lightbox] to see the recently re-vitalized Pleasure State™ Lingerie brand.  Maintaining its signature haute couture design influence, four distinctive collections address a variety of consumer needs; fit, value and glamour.  But it is the top of the line … Read More


[lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”http://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Birth_of_Venus_Botticelli-800×512.jpg”][/lightbox]What made the Renaissance such a revolution in the History of Art was the emergence of sensuality and form as a metaphor for beauty and life.  I remember the first time I wandered through the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and saw Botticelli’s depiction of the Birth of Venus and thought how the perception of the feminine ideal has morphed through the centuries.     Drenched in a … Read More


This week’s Intimate Discovery: Retro-Saucy underthings hand tailored to fit your curves

[lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”http://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ps-crop.jpg”][/lightbox]I love visiting Journelle in NYC. It’s a virtual gallery of elegant [lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”http://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ginger.jpg”][/lightbox]lingerie by  Indie  as well as established designers and visiting the boutique often satisfies my perpetual search for new talent.  Last time I was there I found Fortnight Lingerie, launched in 2010 by Toronto based … Read More


[lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”http://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ebg_old_books.jpg”][/lightbox]Lately, I have been on a classic reading binge:  Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Frankenstein to name a few.  I am sure I read these tomes in school, but somehow, any memory of the virtues these books possess that have allowed them to remain relevant and even gain in popularity through the generations had escaped me.  Thus, my motivation to delve beneath the … Read More


This week’s Intimate Discovery:  Sophisticated, Loungewear Define the American Summer Style

[lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”http://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/FemmeFatale-AK-1.jpg”][/lightbox]It’s pushing 100° in New York today and I am hunkered[lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”http://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/DSC_0316-copy-1.jpg”][/lightbox] down in my house doused in the balm of artificial air conditioning.  I much prefer the outdoors and boy do I wish I had a few pieces of the Anne Klein loungewear, delivered this spring for woman … Read More


[lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”http://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Dana-Schutz-1.jpg”][/lightbox]When I was first introduced to the work of contemporary painter Dana Schutz, I was overwhelmed by the impact of bright fantastical color on her canvases.  I was stunned by the juxtaposition of seemingly discordant hues on a surface that seemed almost free of structure.  Immediately, I thought of the early 20th century Fauves and the shift they ignited in the art world as … Read More


[lightbox color=”#000000″ type=”image” title=”” link=”http://lingeriebriefs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/memorial_day.jpg”][/lightbox]Several years ago, on a family vacation in France, I took my history obsessed son on an excursion to Omaha Beach in Normandy.  His passion at the time was everything he could learn about World War II and the parent in me felt compelled to give him this opportunity.  Little did I realize the impact this memorial would have on my own familial vision.  … Read More


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