By Marina Rybak
If you are lucky to be in London now, you may enjoy the “Hollywood Costume” exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum in full swing until January 27th. For the first time the costumes from many beloved classics are shown together, bringing to life such characters like Marilyn’s Sugar Kane Kowalczyk from Some Like it Hot and Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany’s. For me the exhibit … Read More
By Richard Vincente
Victoria’s Secret Faces An Uphill Battle In The UK Lingerie Market
The queue should start forming any day now. Clusters of excited teens and twenty-somethings, all girls, will line up along New Bond Street and around the corner onto Brook. Police will be called in to direct traffic and private security crews will manage the crowds trying to get inside. Reporters and bloggers and TV cameras will be everywhere.
Say what you … Read More
By Richard Vincente
You don’t have to look very hard these days to find examples of how the evolving universe of fashion lingerie — the undiverse, as I call it — conflicts with public standards and exposes our mixed feelings about how, when and where we display our bodies.
We live in a society that celebrates and peddles sexuality with an increasing lack of restraint … but that same society also has a collective … Read More
By Jené Luciani
Recently, I’ve been getting quite the lesson on European bras and lingerie. I’ve always been a fan of the Euro brands, despite the slight sizing differences. Personally, I think they fit fuller busts very well and the brands like Chantelle believe larger busted women should also have bras that are pretty (not just a nude t-shirt bra or granny-style minimizer). A few months ago, I started working with British brand Curvy Kate … Read More
By Rhea Cortado
Without a plan and with the intention of “just looking,” I went to the Rose Bowl flea market in Pasadena. This is not a good idea. The Rose Bowl flea market is bigger than any flea market you have ever been to, multiplied by tens and a lot of it is redundant. If you get lost, there is no way someone can find you using descriptions like, “I’m by the booth with … Read More
“I have always liked painters. It seems to me that we are in the same trade.”
~ French fashion designer Paul Poiret
Art and fashion have been inseparable ever since the first caveman decided to decorate his animal-hide wrap with a few charcoal stick figures.
But even the French couturier Poiret — whose affinity for artists and illustrators of the early 20th Century is … Read More
In honor of Mother’s Day, this May 13th, let’s celebrate how Motherhood can be an opportunity to take the most exquisite care of our bodies and our lives from pregnancy and throughout all the stages being a parent. For those of you who are mothers and are shaking your head, thinking “if I only had the time…” please consider reading this to the end.
When I was pregnant, I worked full time … Read More