By ELLEN LEWIS
I am in awe of the Calida brand, their message, and their incredible merchandising platform. Ever since I first highlighted the The Cradle to Cradle Certified™ I Love Nature t-shirts in 2018, I have become more and more enamored of the superior sustainable programs that the company supports. Calida is an iconic brand, 80 years young, a mainstay of many intimate apparel retailers worldwide. Full disclosure: although, I always valued … Read More
This month Lise Charmel launches a new version of its exquisite Fleur Aphrodite collection (originally in red) for Summer 2020. Golden glossed threads form an intricate flower pattern that embraces the torso with a sensual floral relief. A coordinating guipure and print capture the brand’s signature design aesthetic: luxurious intimates; each shape a modern artistic statement worthy of collecting. It is notable that Fleur Aphrodite is right on target for 2020/ 21 fashion direction, incorporating … Read More
Oscar Wilde said “Life imitates art more than art imitates life”. Venus, the goddess of love and beauty was immortalized in Renaissance art by the famed paintings of Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus and Primavera. The concept of celebrating the female body does not escape analysis. Women have held sway in art for centuries. Could that be why The Maison Lejaby Venus collection in stores now is so captivating?
Botticelli’s goddesses were center stage … Read More
By TINA WILSON
White…we think of purity, faith, innocence, goodness, even virginity when we think of the color white, white is ingrained in all of us to be an inherently positive color, why?
Opaak & Empreinte
I’ve been researching colors and their meanings and how they make us feel. Culturally the meanings can shift, in Asian cultures white is a symbol of mourning and loss, in Western cultures the hero wears white and the villain … Read More
By HOLLY JACKSON
I know it’s still cold and snowy other places, but here in New Orleans it’s been spring for at least two weeks.The camellia bushes in my courtyard are blooming and the sweet olive trees are bursting with blossoms that smell like peach candy. It’s been so lovely that I’ve spent most days turning my front porch into a makeshift office, so I can work outside while my puppy plays in the garden.… Read More
By ELLEN LEWIS
Bartenders, waitresses, administrative assistants; these jobs are what many young designers do to fund their real passion, Lingerie Design. Unwilling to compromise their creativity, they have developed new sales channels; pop ups and Instagram for example. As young Indie designers resist mainstream career routes, they plant seedlings nurturing the market with new ideas.
The Lingerie Selection is a small boutique show that enables emerging talent, whose coffers do … Read More
By ELLEN LEWIS
MIMI A LA MER
Anyone who knows me knows that I have this thing with stripes. I don’t wear them, but they have a strong presence in my home, particularly in Mexico where vivid color and pattern melding just works. It’s no surprise, then, that I notice them everywhere on the swimwear scene for 2019. Cabana stripes, pinstripes, border stripes, curvy stripes, vertical, horizontal and perpendicular. Stripes with flowers. Stripes with … Read More
