Sue
The
underwear designers and manufacturers, Zephyrs, expected to be famous for their
ground-breaking (or rather boob-shaping) kidney shaped bra inserts, shaped to
increase volume and cleavage in a natural fashion. Instead they are suing their
law firm, McDermott, Will & Emery for approximately $6 million! years of
design on the part of Zephyrs founder Debra MacKinnon led to a patent
application in 2008, but according to the claim, when the actual patent was
granted in 2012, serious flaws were found in the claim document, allowing
giants like Amazon and Victoria’s Secret to create
similar systems without breaking patent law. As a result, Zephyrs has been
fighting a rearguard action to protect intellectual property and bring their
lawyers to book by claiming damages because they haven’t been able to
collect royalties on their design. A ruling isn’t expected before the end of the year.
Sue
Whatever
your view of Lingerie Football, I’m
sure you assumed that the players were getting well paid for their skills - and
for wearing a little less than the average footballer whilst playing! But it
seems that’s not necessarily
the case - a former Las Vegas Sin
player, Robin Johnson, is suing the Lingerie Football League for which she
played. Her claim is that the league, now known as the Legends Football League,
failed to pay the necessary minimum wage
and overtime to hundreds of its employees.
Johnson
played for the league for two years and says that she and many other employees
were classified as independent contractors who weren’t entitled to
minimum wage payments and overtime, which she claims is hard to believe, given
that players must both play as part of a team and obey team and league rulings,
which denies their independent status. The ‘Lingerie
League’ began as a half
time skit but is now a ten team USA league, a five team Australian one and a
four team league in Canada. Minimum should apply to clothing, not pay, says
Robin Johnson!
Blue
is the new black!
At
least for intimate apparel. From regularly kingfisher-haired Nicole Richie’s revelations (she
spends around £15,000 on underwear
every year) to Bar Refaeli’s most recent photos,
revealed as part of Top Model, being filmed in Warsaw, Poland, every shade of
blue is turning up in underwear.
Wearing
blue lingerie can be complex - it’s
a cool colour which can drain the life from a warm complexion and is prone to
bring out blue elsewhere, so if you have blue eyes (or hair) it can be a
sophisticated look - although it’s
not great if you have leg veins you’d
rather not draw attention to.
Blue
undies aren’t impossible
though. Blue works well with peach and white, as seen in the Reve de PeintureAntinea nightie by Lise Charmel, and this is a particularly good choice for
warm-toned skins and for blondes and redheads. If you want to conceal leg
veins, made more obvious by blue undies, a pair of flirty fishnets like our LegAvenue lace-topped stockings will do the job perfectly, whilst ramping up
your sex appeal!
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