An On Gossamer favorite: the Beautifully Basic Lace plunge bra is this month’s intimate highlight. Part of the On Gossamer entourage of weightless, light as air lingerie, the brand’s legacy, this particular style fits sizes 30-38, A-D cups. Microfiber lightly padded cups provide a seamless lift. The sweeping neckline with the high apex center is also appreciated by petite women and women with shorter torsos. A clean, modern front … 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. … Read More
By ELLEN LEWIS
Here we are on the cusp of 2019, the week between Christmas and New Year’s when even if it’s not your personal holiday, half the world’s population is at bay. Food, family and frustration hold court between two global celebrations interrupting life’s daily flow. It’s a love-hate affair for many of us and still we persevere, year after year. This season, it is especially prescient: the political … Read More
Smooth, full coverage and gorgeous lace – perfection in a bra!
The Le Mystere Lace Perfection Smoother creates a a sleek and unlined silhouette with 2-ply cups. The super flat jacquard lace is seamlessly moulded and lined with a power micro that helps smooth and shape the bust. Targeting smoothing for back, sides and underarms with nice, wide side wings and a clean finish inside with elastics and wire channel … Read More
By HOLLY JACKSON
The lingerie world hasn’t always traditionally been friendly towards larger sizes or curvier customers, but if any part of it seemed even more determined to stick with the status quo it was the shapewear market. Shapewear in the past has been a traditional product: it comes in three colors (white, black and beige) and performs one basic purpose (smoothing and slimming). Predictably, it took a gang of … Read More
By ALISON CONNOLLY
I recently decided to visit www.barneys.com to do a little Christmas shopping (who are we kidding, I was looking for myself), and discovered the lingerie brand Kiki de Montparnasse in their ultra-glamorous gift guide. Being somewhat of a luxury intimates aficionado, I was admittedly surprised that the brand was still around. For some reason I assumed that when the brick-and-mortar boutiques closed, the entire business did too. … Read More
Recently, we published a story about my visit to the Patricia Mendoza Gallery in Cabo de San Jose and how it inspired my thoughts about the Lise Charmel brand.: Art Yields to Lingerie ~Lise Charmel Once again the synthesis of art and lingerie is revealed. Purposeful, or simply coincidental: at that moment, I drew a correlation to the beauty and balance of this Lise Charmel’s Nuit Elegance collection. The paintings … Read More