The most beautiful lingerie and swimwear in the world...
Yet another new collection was added to Nancy Meyer today — and as you know we like our luxurious swimwear, here’s a quick little plug of the latest Roberto Cavalli swimsuits & bikinis…
“These bathing suits are instant stunners, with their brightly-hued peacock feather patterns that wreap around the silhouette. Jeweled “RC” accents mark the designer’s signature, sexy design.”
Prices start at a whopping $445 for the bikini…
Anna Farris is causing quite a stir with her movie, House Bunny. With many shots of the iconic bunny costume, TLP wanted to find the designer behind the scenes.
Photo courtesy of Melinda Sue Gordon / Columbia Pictures.
Roberto Cavalli has been featured many times in TLP. Cavalli teamed up with Hugh Hefner to redesign the bunny costume for the Playboy Clubs. Cavalli was not likely involved in the costumes for the movie, but he is the design talent behind the current costume. (Mona May is the costume designer listed for the movie.) Here’s a photo of the original bunny costumes from the 1960s.
Playboy approached Cavalli to design the updated costume for the future Playboy venues at the new tower of the Palms Casino Resort & Spa in Las Vegas. Scheduled to open in early 2006, the tower will include a boutique casino and lounge, a nightclub, a retail store, and a two-story Hugh Hefner sky villa. Cavalli’s will be the first reinterpretation of the costume in more than a quarter century. The bunny costume was first introduced at the original Playboy Club in Chicago in 1960, and began as a modified one-piece swimsuit with the addition of collar, cuffs, and the legendary rabbit ears and cottontail. ~ Dexigner.com
Photos courtesy of Playboy.
When dreaming about places known for lingerie fashion runways, most people think of Milan, Paris or New York. One very rarely blurts out Moscow as the fist choice. Yet, Russian women are very proud of their lingerie and boutiques and shops are abundant. And 
not only has luxury lingerie become hugely prevalent in Russia but one particular Russian lingerie company has grown to become a major player in European markets as well.
Luxury lingerie Wild Orchid opened in Kent late 2007 and has been very successful. In fact, they immediately opened another two stores in London making the British total three under their label name of Vendetta. Having initially been distributors of fine lingerie when they started business in 1992, the Vendetta stores not only sell their own brand but also those of Christian Lacroix, Roberto Cavalli and Dior. Wild Orchid plans to open another store in March 2008 under the Russian name Wild Orchid that is slated to sell their Décolleté label.
One of the unique features of Wild Orchid and a marketing point that helps propel
its huge success is the company’s niche market. Contrarily, the thrust is not focused on women who need undergarments but rather women who are interested in quality, uniqueness and must-have creations.
Wild Orchid prefers to sell one expensive piece of high-end lingerie to a woman who appreciates the garment rather than sell six pieces to someone who just needs new undergarments. Women who shop at Vendetta are not interested in purchasing for quantity but instead for quality. Further, the company does not promote undergarments as a functional necessity. Maybe a fashion necessity, yes, but a functional necessity, no.
Alexander Fedorov, founder and president of Wild Orchid has poised the company for serious global expansion with plans to open stores in the USA, France and Italy. One of its biggest advantages over other lingerie companies is that most of its production is carried out in their own factories in their home country. Unlike other lingerie labels, Wild Orchid is its own manufacturer who is not required to depend on the Chinese factories.
Our good friends over at Peacock & Strutt told us they wouldn’t want to miss the Valentine’s Day contest we’re having once we told ‘m about it, and they’ve thrown in an excellent prize, sure to make quite a few readers sign up for the contest!
The prize: the beautiful Frankly Darling, Carmen Silk set which is just gorgeous. Whoever wins can chose from colours: Mink, Sage & Orange. Retail value is close to $200!
The Peacock & Strutt store’s got a great label selection, including Spoylt, Chloé, Ayten Gasson, Lupoline, Belinda Robertson, And God Created Woman, Roberto Cavalli, … If you want to know what’s going on at this big-name packed store — sign up on their website! You’ll know when the sales start, you’ll know when new pieces arrive — it’s well worth it!
First — sign up for our Valentine’s Day Contest though, and let us know you’d like this gorgeous Frankly Darling set!
I can’t believe I missed this, but I did want to make this into a quick blurb on TLP, seeing as the swimwear season is coming up — and we want to make sure to cover as many labels and collections as possible… The write-up is on beachwear.cc — the photos are from beachwear.cc — the shopping can be done at Nancy Meyer. Go summer!
