Showing posts with label lingerie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lingerie. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Christmas is the time for unwrapping gifts. One could say that the same approach could be taken to undressing - what would be the point in unwrapping a beautiful package to find that it contains a lump of coal?   Today marked the unveiling of the Intimate Apparel section of one of my favourite on-line boutiques, Not Just A Label. Continuing their tradition of sourcing beautiful products from lesser known designers, the range includes both lingerie and swimsuits. Beautiful.


Trompe l'oeil bodysuit by Gemma Slack

Opal Westminster Brief and Braces by Nichole de Carle

Onyx Culottes by Nichole de Carle

Last Testament Bra by Nichole de Carle

Charlotte Swimsuit by OYE

Thursday, July 15, 2010






Has anyone else ever noticed how on Gossip Girl, Blair Waldorf is never seen without the most divine underwear, even if she's just getting ready for school or hanging around her apartment? There are actually three schools of thought on girls who pay attention to detail like this:

1. They are obviously always prepared for action and therefore potentially slightly slutty.
2. They want to feel fabulous about themselves even if no one else will see or appreciate their efforts in this department.
3. This last one is slightly morbid but I have heard it said that if you have some kind of fatal accident and someone has to identify your body then you want to be discovered/remembered in an entirely positive way.

On second thoughts maybe number three was actually about bikini waxes but I can't remember where I heard it from! Anyway, you don't even need a reason to wear beautiful lingerie, so I am about to let you girls into one of London's best kept secrets: Apartment C on Marylebone High Street.

The essence of Apartment C is less 'boudoir'; more like stepping into your uber-chic best friend's bedroom, complete with art-deco inspired black walls, a Louis Quinze wardrobe, and a vintage chandelier hanging from the ceiling. The very best part however and what makes it so unique is that the store is split in two. At the front, you have a range of beautiful fine lace and silk underwear, bodices and stockings, with designers including Stella McCartney, Lake and Stars and my all time favourite: Princesse Tam Tam. As well as this you can also purchase French perfumes and other gifts such as scented candles and writing sets. After indulging yourself, walk to the back of the store to complete the experience where you can curl up with a trashy novel and drink a gin and tonic (what else?!) out of a teacup.

You'll want to move in and never ever leave.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

More hot tips today on how the French Fem does it PBers...

In Paris last month, I spotted Jamie Cat Callan's book, French Women Don't Sleep Alone at W.H.Smith's and took note.
I met charmer Jamie at a Champagne party for francophile bloggers last January...
Now I'm enthralled with her book - a kind of memoire-report on Frenchie fem dos and don'ts. The intro focuses on the influence of Jamie's French grandmere. Always dressed to perfection - hat, gloves, stockings, high heels, Grandmere was quite demanding of Jamie.
A bit of a cool cucumber too...
Yet Jamie's French grandmother, in her hay day was a vaudville dancer and singer not unlike writer, Colette! How do you like them pommes/apples?
Jamie's book is full of anacdotal tips she picked up while living and traveling in France on how French women do it.
How they get their man!
Certainment lingerie plays an important role in the seduction process. I remember French Girl dragging me down to Printemp's new lingerie department. She was practically drooling over the goodies.
I was very ho-hum.
Give me a good patisserie like Blé Sucré anyday.
I do get the lingerie look worn on the outside - pale pink ruffles paired with a biker-Michael Jackson leather jacket...
But going into Chantal Thomass' grand emporium of ultra fine scraps of chiffon I've yet to conquer...
I'm probably too American, too puritanical or too something. I refuse to shell out buckets of euros on a couple of triangles unless it's for a chausson au pomme.
Miam-miam

Back to Jamie's book - evidently a surefire winner with les mecs/guys is the combo of boots and skirt and I have the photos to prove it.
Jamie says, the French girl does not date.

She throws a dinner party instead.

Mon dieu!

Where are my cookbooks?

Love this French couple in the Palais-Royal don't you?


Guess what?

W.H.Smith thinks Jamie is FAB.

They've invited her to Paris to promote the new SATC 2!
Quelle lucky duck!

Must start wearing boots and skirts...
Must learn to love lingerie...

Must, must, must start cooking!

~

Key$a says it all in Boots N boys

Boots and boys (Boots and boys)
They bring me so much joy (Bring me joy)
I gotta sing it
I wear 'em both so pretty
As I walk in the city

BONJOUR BOOTS N BOYS!!

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