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The Giving Bride

By ELLEN LEWIS

Harlow & Fox at Lingerie Selection as featured on Lingerie BriefsHarlow & Fox

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 … Read More


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Annasul Y. Wedding Dress on Lingerie Briefs

Every spring since Maggie Gillette launched her bridal brand, The Giving Bride, I find myself circling back to her collection. Maggie’s focus on this critical lingerie niche and her efforts to keep the line succinct, sophisticated, and tailored locally as well as dedicated to a charitable cause, are much of what the millennial woman seeks when she shops. These elegant understated designs stand out because of their simplicity, a … Read More


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The Giving Bride Lingerie and vintage wedding gown on Lingerie briefs

“To Death Do Us Part” or so we hope when we speak our vows on our wedding day. For many women, this is the beginning of a much anticipated new phase of life and expectations run very high. Thus, the day becomes a pinnacle of celebration, the dress, the metaphor for all things beautiful that can happen in this most precious bond. Everything is elevated for the affair and lingerie … Read More


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The Giving Bride

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A few months ago,, during Lingerie Fashion week, I had the good fortune of meeting Maggie Gillette, the creative entrepreneur behind the nascent bridal brand, The Giving Bride. What enticed me about Maggie’s work was not only the delicate platinum lace that details the Ashley collection (some of the photos highlighted here) but also her mission: to donate part of the proceeds to women’s shelters. All of these designs … Read More


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