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Hanky Panky teams up with Prabal Gurung

Lingerie brand Hanky Panky has unveiled a limited-edition capsule collection with fashion designer Prabal Gurung for autumn/winter 2023. Inspired by the rare beauty of the rhododendron, the Hanky Panky x Prabal Gurung collection has been designed to empower women “with the confidence to be seen as they choose” and features more than 30 pieces,...

Celebrity

Pour Moi x Mel B: The Perfectly Fitted Bra to Empower Women

Pour Moi’s Own Your Confidence campaign, dedicated to women celebrating women, is back. The iconic spice girl Melanie Brown MBE AKA ‘Scary Spice’ and her daughter Phoenix join forces with Pour Moi again with the shared belief that every woman deserves to feel confident no matter what shape or size they may be and to showcase how Pour Moi caters...

Fashion |In Pictures

Bluebella unveils collaboration with Ashley Williams

Contemporary lingerie brand Bluebella has unveiled a playful collaboration with British designer Ashley Williams inspired by a shared vision of empowering women and celebrating individuality. The Bluebella x Ashley Williams collection offers an array of nightwear, underwear and accessories, which draw from Williams’ signature aesthetic of...

Fashion

SS24 with Louisa Bracq: A Lover's Discourse Fragments

Love is a whirlwind of emotions that can be passionate, carefree, contradictory, fiery, comforting, unsettling, tender and intense. Louisa Bracq's new SS24 campaign beautifully showcases the various facets of love with a light-hearted and humorous touch. The dynamics between men and women are often likened to a delicate game, where the roles of...

Fashion |In Pictures

Nearly 60 years after the men: Lacoste launches first underwear collection for women

The French fashion label Lacoste is expanding its product portfolio to include underwear for women. The 50-piece underwear line consists of four different collections in four different styles. However, they all reflect the brand's identity, Lacoste announced on Thursday. Credits: Lacoste In 1966, the brand designed its first underwear collection...

Fashion

Tesco becomes the first retailer to cover VAT on period pants

Supermarket giant Tesco is reducing the price of its F&F range of period pants by covering the cost of VAT after it announced it was joining the ‘Say Pants to the Tax’ campaign calling on the Government to reclassify period pants in line with other period products which have been exempt from VAT since 2021. In a statement, Tesco said the...

Fashion

Skims claims to have reinvented the pushup bra

Skims, the Kim Kardashian co-founded underwear brand, has introduced what it calls a groundbreaking pushup bra, redefining lingerie with innovative design. The bra, named the "Ultimate Bra," was created using advanced techniques like 3D scans of a multitude of different shapes and eschew the single foam pad from conventional push-up bras,...

Fashion Featured

M&S and Wuka call on the government to remove VAT from period pants

Marks & Spencer has teamed up with period pants brand Wuka to call on the government to remove the 20 percent VAT on period pants by asking Victoria Atkins, the financial secretary to the treasury to reclassify the reusable knickers as a period product in this year’s autumn statement. Currently, period products such as pads, tampons and...

Fashion |Interview Featured

Burlesque-inspired lingerie startup Scarlett Gasque plans to seduce the US

Canadian-born, London-based Chloe Rogers, founder and CEO of Scarlett Gasque, the luxury lingerie company specializing in corsetry, has already been profiled in Vogue and her brand featured in Elle UK's pick of the best lingerie brands to shop in 2023. Named after the founder’s two grandmothers, Scarlett Gasque imbues its covetable candy-colored...

Fashion

Victoria’s Secret announces new ‘fashion event’ hosted by Prime Video

Lingerie label Victoria’s Secret has announced that it will be hosting a new fashion event set to take place via Amazon’s Prime Video on September 26. Dubbed ‘The Victoria’s Secret World Tour’, the brand stated that the “one-of-a-kind show” will also be part documentary, contributing to its overall mission of “uplifting and championing women” on...

People

Frederick's of Hollywood names new creative director

American lingerie brand Frederick's of Hollywood has appointed fashion designer and celebrity stylist Candice Cuoco as its new creative director. Cuoco will oversee the brand's creative direction and product design, focusing on modern lingerie to create collections that embrace Frederick’s of Hollywood’s storied past with fresh designs for the...

Retail |In Pictures

Coco de Mer opens new private shopping space

Luxury lingerie brand Coco de Mer has opened an appointment-only private shopping space in Primrose Hill, London, following the closure of its Covent Garden boutique earlier in the year to streamline into a digital-first business for growth and stability. The move means that all divisions of the company are now under one roof, including online,...