Lingerie show in LA this week: Curve returns to an in-person event on August 23-24 at the Wesdrift Manhattan Beach texasguardian.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from texasguardian.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mark Cant
These days – thanks to Kim and her contemporaries – looking like an hourglass is back in vogue. The goal to look ‘thicc’, with an unreasonably small middle, is highly covetable. As we emerge from multiple lockdowns, hedonism is combining with the desire to look our best – our most sculpted, our most cinched.
So where can one find the best items to achieve such a look? What luxury brands, some of which have famously serviced the Queen
et al, are peddling sculpting undergarments worth investing in? To find out, I make a beeline for Rigby & Peller’s flagship store on Conduit Street for a fitting and shapewear consultation. As I stand in the changing room, bare nipples facing Natasha, my infinitely professional sales assistant, I realise this is the most compromising position I’ve ever conducted an interview in: I am naked from the waist up, wearing opaque tights, Tabi boots and my trusty More Joy mask, as we chat about breast tissue and waist cinching. I’m
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Let’s get one thing straight. Lingerie does not need to be reserved for a special event. If you wake up in the morning and feel like wearing the sexiest, laciest, most extravagant underwear set you own, that’s more than reason enough to pop it on.
Even in France, lingerie shifts from sexy to comfortable japantoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from japantoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It might have a reputation as the birthplace of sexy lingerie, but even in France titillation is taking second place to comfort and practicality. The very word “lingerie” is a French export – used from Japan to Holland to Brazil – but France has been slow to adapt to a changing mood in the global industry which no longer treats expensive underwear primarily as a weapon of seduction.