Selina Bond recently graduated from De Montfort
University’s Contour Fashion degree course and was given the accolade New
Designer of the Year at this year’s UK Lingerie Awards - she’s also the first
designer to win this award without having a collection ready to retail. So what
was it that so impressed the judges who included experts from John Lewis and
Rigby and Peller? It was her use of technology, specifically carbon fibre, the
material used in Formula 1 racing cars and in space vehicles.
The idea came from her father, who used to work
for the Williams Formula 1 team repairing cars damaged in racing - he even
helped her create moulds for the carbon fibre lingerie she designed. The
pieces, shaped like breastplates or bodices are lined with verve and lace
trimmed before being lacquered. Apparently they are lightweight and very rigid,
and the models who wore them in her graduate show said they were wonderful for
the posture!
Men in lingerie …
If you want a laugh, watch three men trying to get into women’s underwear! There is a more serious point to this video though. The idea was
to see what men thought of lingerie if they were the ones wearing it - and
their responses are priceless, including, ‘I don’t understand what’s sexy about
fishnets, unless you get massive boners at the thought of the sea’ and ‘I feel
like a fish caught in a six-pack of beer.’ But it just goes to make the point
that lingerie myths are alive and well and as the chaps in corsets concluded
‘girls’ don’t need to be wearing clothes that aren’t comfortable. We agree - lingerie worn by women for men is
rarely worth it, which is why we stock lingerie that women love to wear and men
love to see women in!
How to shop online for Valentine’s Day lingerie with your lover
If you’re fed up with receiving the kind of
Valentine’s Day gift that makes you cringe or smirk, perhaps this is the year
to get organised. By which we mean, set the scene with candles, something good
to drink and some music you both find sexy, and then sit and shop for your
Valentine’s Day gifts to each other online. There’s some evidence that shopping
for sexy gifts is mutually rewarding - not only does picking out a sensual gift
together create sexual anticipation but the process of choosing sexy underwear
as a couple creates clearer communication and more powerful bonds.
There’s another reason to shop together online -
it helps you learn each other’s fantasy vocabulary. Fantasy is one of those
strange areas, we all know what we like, but explaining it, even to ourselves,
let alone to somebody else can be complicated. This means that discussing why
you like the look of something can open up new areas of your relationship. It
means you develop a shared language about what turns you both on and stops you
being so subtle that your partner can’t actually be certain what you want.
Finally, our love of sexy things will evolve and
change throughout our lives, and shopping online allows us to explore new ideas
without feeling too challenged. So if your lingerie life begin with a silk nightie, it might
still evolve to quite specialist and kinky undies, whilst for those who already
have a rich and varied range of lingerie items, there are always other kinds of
experience to try such as our MaskedDesires kit with a range of elegant accessories to
develop your fantasy life.
Oh they’re beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing your experiences– I’d love to order those lingerie from her one day!
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