This week’s Intimate Discovery: Intimate Soirée for Specialty Stores Nominated for BOI AWARDS
It was a perfect summer evening on 
Sunday, July 31 in New York City. Nothing is as congenial as the good will that permeated the atmosphere at the 230 5th Avenue Penthouse Lounge where The Best of Intima Magazine hosted its 2011 THE BEST OF INTIMA AWARDS, the most prestigious gathering of lingerie boutiques across … Read More
In preparation for college in the late 60’s, my mother felt compelled to buy me a trunk full of “outfits”. She took me shopping to Saks and Best & Company (now I am really dating myself) and insisted on a bevy of tweed skirts with cable knit sweaters; matching knee-his included. It was like buying a trousseau, and I obliged, because frankly, who knew? Suffice it to be said that … Read More
This Week’s Intimate Discovery: Intima Group Hosts Retail Panel Seminar: Impact of Social Media on Business.
I am so pleased to be affiliated with The Intima Group, international publishers of the premiere Lingerie Trade Magazine in the global intimate apparel industry. We all recognize the quality and class of the USA editon, The Best of Intima, just released this week on line and available in print at CurveNY and … Read More
It’s over 100 degrees in New York for the third day in a row and I am hunkered down inside my air-conditioned home waiting for this heat stampede to pass. The air is flush with moisture and mass forming a perfect storm of inertia. Yesterday, I slipped out of my artificial cave for a few minutes of escape to my friend Gale’s farm. Sitting by a cool pond under a … Read More
This Week’s Intimate Discovery: New Brands debut at Curve NY
There will be 314 brands on display at CurveNY , at least 30% 
newcomers to the show, but I am particularly pleased to see a few that truly intrigued me with their product message when I first discovered them in Paris at The Salon De Lingerie. I found The Pink Powder Room (booth 274), a collection of gorgeous Egyptian … Read More
Could it be the salty air, ocean breeze
Or the beach
Nearby, I think
More than these things
It is the seagull soaring
She spreads her wings
Softly slips her feathered form through clear, cloudless skies
She is me
Elsewhere
A profile of freedom
I moved to the beach in the early 70’s while my friends were settling in Manhattan. No one could quite grasp why I decided on this … Read More
This week’s Intimate Discovery: Yummie Brings Shapewear Out of The Closet
It is not too often that I can identify a new merchandising 
channel in the Intimate Apparel Industry, so you can imagine my excitement when I saw the pioneering lifestyle initiative recently launched by the innovative fashion solutions brand, Yummie Tummie by Heather Thomson. Simply named Yummie, this emerging brand now available to lingerie stores at … Read More