I found this piece via A Slip of a Girl, and I concur that it's not exactly designed to be worn under a tee shirt - or really under anything. It's on offer from Faire Frou Frou and comes only in aqua - though I'm partial to other colors, I admire the bravado of a designer that offers a piece in one color.
--Audacia Ray
San Francisco-based Dollhouse Bettie sells a wide variety of lingerie - lots of vintage inspired pin-up stuff, plus a good amount of actual vintage stuff. This piece falls into the "actual vintage" categoy. It's a rubber girdle, the kind made by Playtex in the 1950s - the kind that came in a tube. And check it out, it comes with the original tube and everything. With a price tag of $549, its strictly for collectors, but we mere mortals can check it out on its sale page at Dollhouse Bettie.
--Audacia Ray
Generally I feel like it's irresponsible to post images without their provenance firmly attached. But with these shoes, I simply could not resist. I found them on Inside the Mind of Gloria Brame, but she doesn't link to where she found them, so the trail ends there. Pity too, because these are so extraordinary I'd love to have a pair myself.
--Audacia Ray
Waisted Couture has a gorgeous line of corsets - but don't let your imagination be curbed by the images you see on their website. Corset-buyers are encouraged to make requests about cut, color, fabric, etc. So get dreaming!
The pictured corset is a customized sweetheart midi-longline style pink polka dot tight lacin corset, with black tulle and ribbon embellished with a buck front closure.
--Audacia Ray
[Via River City Kitty]
Pubic hair dye product betty made a big splash when it debuted last year, and it seems to be doing good business. This summer they've got a snazzy little package for fun in the sun - you can choose between blonde or blue dye, and the package comes with a stencil so you can mold your pubes to the shape of a palm tree, dolphin, flower, or butterfly.
--Audacia Ray
Etsy is a wealth of peculiar and original objects, and user LoucheLust doesn't disappoint with his fur pie panties. They're a pair of beige Calvin Klein with, as the description says, a "one of a kind, hand stitched, furry vagina." He has some other dirty pieces available too, some wearable and others not.
--Audacia Ray
[Via Pony Xpress]
Murielle Scherre designs lingerie that is both super-sexy and highly wearable for her small company La Fille D'O in her home/shop in Ghent, Belgium. We met at the Pinched festival in Amsterdam in June and got to talking, so I thought a follow up interview would be lovely.
Naked City editor Audacia Ray had questions for Murielle about her creative process, the lingerie business in Europe, and her special approach to shooting photos of models wearing her designs.
Audacia Ray: What inspired you to start your business and what inspires the designs you make?
Murielle Scherre: Simple things inspired me to start, but I find it’s the more complex things that keep me going. The start was mainly about being intrigued by the human body, so in the academy I was working with sports-influenced shapes and performance fabrics and seams that are body dynamic. But I found something missing: the excitement, the fire. I didn’t want to do just functional stuff. I wanted fun and games. And if you add those to performance and close to the body wear, you soon get to the field of lingerie. Or at least that is what I thought. I quickly found out that was not the other brands’ motivation since they mainly surf on the commercial wave. Humor, sex and adoration for the human body is hard to find in most other brands so I decided I could do better.
When I design lingerie or when I need to decide on a project or a look for a show or whatever, if it’s linked to my brand I will think of something I would like to see happening in other brands. I try to think as a consumer, I think of the demand. I don’t want to be the stuck up designer bitch who saw the light and is so nice to share her wisdom of what we plebeians want. I don’t want that and I don’t need it. If I see a brand I need to feel that the people behind it have it in their blood. I want to be seriously crazy about it. In love with every single one of their products, willing to lose and arm for it. I want the product to be clever but also naïve in a way. I want the designs to become a second skin that draws the eye of the beholder to where I want it. And the next time I hold that piece, I want it to give me a flash back of every single memory it holds, of each adventure it had. I want that adventure slightly showing by my blushing cheeks. That’s how I do my designs – ior at least I try to.
Three more questions and their answers -and more pictures- after the jump.
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Lizette is a one-stop shop - if you knew that you needed shiny, slinky shoe accessories. Their various add-ons are meant to revitalize plain-looking shoes. Pictured is the Keyhole Czech Crystal Medallion Elastic.
--Audacia Ray
Everyone loves gifts that are handmade with love, so if you've got some knitting skillz, why not make knitted thongs for all the guys you know? The secret is using material that is produced with socks in mind - its stretchy but also offers support. Knitty.com offers up step-by-step instructions.
--Audacia Ray
Good to Be You's Maribou Feather Lingerie Bag is almost too cute. Almost. It's cotton on the outside and satin on the inside, perfect for toting around your lingerie, especially if you're also packing high heels, which can shred delicate fabric like nobody's business. A ziploc bag does the job just as well, but in a much less sexy way.
--Audacia Ray
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