Bra's, Knicker's and all things lingerie: July 2011

Saturday, 30 July 2011

Cake Lingerie introduces seamless maternity bra.

Cake Lingerie has created the first luxurious seamless maternity bra called Embrace Me. It offers a luxury, seamless, non-restrictive maternity and nursing bra, and also gives a snug fit during periods of change in the body .

The bra is specially designed for women in their first trimester and first few weeks post birth.

The bra has an innovative ‘T’ back design , angled straps providing structure and lift and cleverly placed bra panels which allow growth without compromising shape and is ideal for new mothers.

Photo's : http://thelingeriejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Cake_Embrace-Me-Illustration1.jpg

M&S celebrates five years of post surgery lingerie.

This summer Marks & Spencer celebrated five years since it became the first high street retailer to launch its own collection of pretty and attractive post-surgery lingerie.

To celebrate the anniversary of the launch in 2006 Marks and Spencer's published a guide to Post-Surgery Bras,which was in conjunction with Breakthrough Breast Cancer.

Photo's : http://www.marksandspencer.com/Post-Surgery-Lingerie-Underwear-Womens/b/66290031?ie=UTF8&ie=UTF8?ie=UTF8&intid=gnav_lingerie_post-surgery

La Senza New In Autumn/ Winter 2011/12

These are La Senza's new bra's for Autumn/Winter and prices vary from £16 to £30. The top set of photos show a pastel palette of colours with beautiful fabrics such as silk and lace with simple detailing of piping and bows with ivory lace trims... very vintage inspired.

The second selection of photo's show beautiful lace bras in creams, chocolates, nudes and ivories with black piping and detailing, simplistic but beautiful.

Both sets of bra's fit in with the vintage inspired, simplistic colour palette, flower girl image, that has been seen in magazines and on the catwalks in collections by Sarah Burton for Alexander Mcqueen, Collette Dinnigan and Valentino .

Photo's : http://www.lasenza.co.uk/bras/new_in/new_in_bras_show_all.htm

New inventions, discoveries,technologies, products and generally whats new in the world of lingerie! Starting with Marks and Spencer's.

Marks and Spencer's Nearly Naked Lingerie Range

The Nearly Naked Lingerie Range, is a range of bra's and knickers that is designed to make the wearer feel like their almost naked.

The bra is priced at £18 and the knicker at £8.

The bra is made using 'super soft fabric' and uses a new flocking techique to help keep the bra in place rather than using the normal lingerie elastics. The flocking is made of tiny fibres which means the bra sits closely to the skin creating a flattering silhouette.

The cups are made from M&S special lightweight foam and the underwire is encased in extra soft padding. The knickers are also made of the same 'super soft fabric' and technology to stop the knickers moving. Due to the soft and seamless finish to the garments, they are almost invisible under clothing.

The lingerie comes in four differnt skin tones which have been specially chosen by the M&S Technology Team, the colours are Apricot, Natural, Mocha and Coco.

Photo's : http://corporate.marksandspencer.com/documents/cb53ef5b8b924b21a07fe7552782abf5/nearly_naked.pdf

Commissions.

At the craft fair I was asked to make two bespoke bikinis for a client, based on a previous bikini style. I had to modify it slightly as I dont have access to all the components that were on the previous bikini. Here is what I made......