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Lace, Luxury, and Lingerie: Olivier Noyon speaks
From craftsmanship and creativity to luxury, sustainability, and the future of lace, the interview with Olivier Noyon reveals how Noyon Dentelle continues to weave elegance, expertise, and emotion into every thread.
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Fetishism and women’s underwear: from private clubs to the catwalk
From corsets to lace, its allure is shaped by personal attraction, societal norms, and artistic representation, making it a complex and enduring aspect of fetish culture and self-expression.
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Beyond black and white: The bold and beautiful shades of Lingerie
Lingerie's story is a tale of evolution, intertwining with shifts in fashion, culture, and societal attitudes towards intimacy. Originating centuries ago, undergarments were primarily functional, crafted from basic materials like linen or wool.
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Underwear and Fashion: Lingerie, corsetry and hosiery
The authors correlate lingerie with emancipation, querying whether it asserts newfound freedoms or simply adjusts to conform to changing social values. The result is a rigorous scientific rationale spiced with a zest of humour. And the tinier lingerie gets, the more scholarly attention it deserves.
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Create your own sunshine!
International Women's Day is a global holiday celebrated annually on March 8 to commemorate the cultural, political, and socioeconomic achievements of women. It is also a focal point in the women's rights movement, bringing attention to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence against women. Let's find a book to bring a smile for your women!
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The Story of Lingerie
The text below is the excerpt of the book The Story of Lingerie, written by Muriel Barbier and Shazia Boucher, published by Parkstone International. During the development of western clothing, lingerie and corsetry have had a fundamental role. It allows one to structure one’s shape, modify the figure and change following the flights of fashion. Underwear itself follows constantly changes with the latest fashion. It is designed using shapes, materials and colours which correspond to the tastes of the time: even if we can say that women’s underwear is created in the image of fashion, it is not actually that simple, and shapes, types of undergarments, and the choice of materials and colours very often…
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The Underside of Fashion
"What do the thousands of images of lingerie on perfectly sculpted bodies that we see spread across magazines say about our society?" Read more and discover the answer.
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Happy Belated 14 July! Bastille Day AND National Nude Day!
Did you know that for many people, July 14th marks a very special day in the calendar? Of course, yes, Bastille Day falls on that day – auspicious event, revolution, storming of the Bastille: paving the way for Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’s final meeting with the guillotine – however, that is not the event that I am referring to. In addition to La Fête Nationale, nudists the world over celebrate the lesser known, or at least lesser-publicised – National Nude Day. Whilst readers in England may not have been aware of this day, our friends on the other side of the pond certainly had their fill of ‘Nude’-related headlines.…
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