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BRIEF ALERT! Cosabella

This Week’s Intimate Discovery: Established Intimates Company Takes An Innovative Step

Last week I ventured downtown to see the new Cosabella flagship store in New York’s trendy Soho district. After closing their traditional Intimate Apparel showroom, they have designed a crossover milieu where wholesale and retail staff commingles with customers creating instant feedback and easy access.  Signature product statements stand out in a contemporary white space highlighted with textural surfaces and touches of antique … Read More


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Intrigued by the kitschy British design aesthetic perpetuated by the fun and flirty UK brand, Playful Promises, I sent my sister, who lives in London, to see their store and report back to me on her findings.  Result: she spent a lot of money on lingerie that “she did not need but could not resist”.  She said she had “a lot of fun” shopping at Playful Promises and I can understand why.  Very geared … Read More


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I wasn’t much of a football enthusiast in college; I never really grasped the devotion of these obsessed fans.  But then my son, in his sophomore year at Boston College managed to persuade us that tailgating was a rite of passage and we, as his parents, should take responsibility for abetting this tradition.  So for several years, we motored to Boston to take part in the home game revelry nurtured on campus by a contingent … Read More


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BRIEF ALERT! Simone Perele

This Week’s Intimate Discovery:  Simone Perele Lights up the Panty Market with Invisi’bulles

By now most of my readers know that I am on a constant search for the world’s most comfortable panty.  Last week I tried the Invisi’bulle bikini (158720) from Simone Perele and I knew I had found another contender.   This light as air, ultra-fine microfiber design is engineered with a stitch free bonding technique that holds the panty in place as … Read More


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I have a personal rapport with the color red.  My first car was a Red Toyota Corolla; $3000 new including air conditioning and snow tires.  I was 21 and I wanted to make a statement.  I polished my nails in “Revlon Red” lacquer, painted my lips in “Dior Red” lipstick, owned a red Bill Blass coat and donned a pair of red suede Charles Jourdan stilettos , which I wore to work in a … Read More


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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 pure white light, this painting of a statuesque figure poised … Read More


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