I Love My Bra - Luxury lingerie blog

You really never hear about Germany in context of fashion—typically Germany is associated with automotive design and luxury cars more then anything else. Think of Maybachs and Porsches. But now I know they make beautiful lingerie. Valisere is a German brand that I think is quite awesome. I stumbled their web site today. And they have what seems to be good quality and beautifully designed, modern and feminine lingerie products. Let me tease you with a couple picks from their current Spring/Summer collection, and you can see the rest on Valisere.com or their e-shop.

Gracieuse corset

Gracieuse balconette bra

Taquine bra

Ravie padded bra

Fascinante padded bra and hipster

Crazy Cabaret triangle bra

Crazy Cabaret corset

Enjoy!
-Analeis

Please don’t take it as a promotional post—I have no relationship to Yoox.com. But lately this web site impresses me more and more. They sell designer clothes among which a few brands of luxe European lingerie, such as Fifi Chachnil, Blumarine, Eres, Argentovivo, Dior, Versace and others. Yoox is like Nancy Meyer but not just for lingerie. By the way, Nancy Meyer advertises new La Perla collection, and La Perla never fails, they consistently make highest quality and beautifully designed lingerie.

So back to Yoox, I’d like to show you a couple of my picks - a couple bras I particularly liked. They are Blumarine triangle cup bra and Swan Original padded demi cup bra:

Left: Blumarine — $170; right: Swan Original — $55.

Good luck shopping!
- Analeis

Verde Veronica is an Italian lingerie designer, and this year’s collection is elegant and sensual, calm and passionate at the same time. I have to share it with you. You can also find it on Verde Veronica website: www.verdeveronica.com.

Feeling

Invisible

Melody

My Silk

(My favorite)

- Analeis

Yesterday a new collection of Dana Pisarra hit the virtual shelves of Nancy Meyer. Dana Pisarra, an Italian designer of fine lingerie, created a number remarkable items such as silk lace camisoles, silk and cotton tanks, with prices ranging from about $90 to $245 for the tops and $55 to $140 for bottoms.

Dana Pisarra - Oslo Ribbed Silk & Lace Camisole - $245

Dana Pisarra: Melbourn Cotton Camisole - $160

Dana Pisarra Fiona Silk Tank - $160

And this one is really something:
Lisa Cashmere Long Sleeve Top - 70% cashmere 30% silk - $350
I just can’t believe this price tag. Here it is:

- Analeis

Catriona MacKechnie has new Huit inventory. I’ll just tease you with this one bra that I really like—a pink Titcha Soft Bra:

I love it a lot, and it’s only $59 - that’s such a steal.

By the way, props to Catriona for redesigning their web site. It is much easier to navigate now. And I like their new models a lot.

Cheers,
- Analeis

Images source: Catriona MacKechnie

I have posted about contraptions for drying bras such as BraBaby and Bra Smart but recently I’ve bumped into a site that claims they are developing a new bra dryer device - http://bradryer.com. On the site they don’t really have any additional info about device except a line “Don’t ruin your bras in a tumble dryer any more". Somewhere else I heard (or read) that it’s going to be other bra dryers killer. I wish they had more info on the project. Meanwhile I sent an email to the address on the site (provided in quite an unexpected place) and if they reply to me, I will post here.

Cheers,
- Analeis

I did not post in my bra care topic for a while, and today I’d like to highlight Bra(g) — the bra bag, quite a genius invention that helps protect padded bras during travel. It is such a perfect solution for bras wrinkled in a suitcase — this bra protective case keeps them in shape and they last so much longer.

Not only this is a genius concept - these cute bags come in an assortment of great fabrics, so you pack your bras in style. These are just three of about a dozen:

The idea of a bra bag is simple and very useful, props to the inventors! I can see where they came from with the concept — as items such as cell phones, iPods or laptops had protective cases for years.

Bra(g)s are sold on-line here as well as in a number of lingerie boutiques for about $50 each — not bad, considering that it helps keep your expensive bras in shape longer, especially luxury bras we pay two — three hundred dollars for. So if you like expensive lingerie and you travel — Bra(g) is a must have.

English lingerie brand Fleur T revealed their new Summer 2008 collection, called “Pure white sugar". This is not the edible lingerie you are thinking about!

It’s really cute — I like how it looks so fresh and clean. Though to me it feels more like a Spring collection, not Summer — with it’s subtle green floral pattern. Yes, I think they made it a mistake, it definitely is a Spring collection.
But I’d like to buy it, as long as white sugar, not Sweet-n-low or Splenda. I like brown sugar, and sure I love honey too. Maybe their next collection will be called “Raw avocado honey"?

-Analeis

And you can send a sexy email postcard from their website, too. That’s so sweet.

More Cotton Club post cards here. I never got one, by the way. I guess no one loves me.

Source: Newsletter.

-Cheers,
Analeis

Tonight I overheard a report on ABC channel about Victoria’s Secret brand slipping sales, which might be caused by VS marketing, which is focused on “sexiness” too much. A few articles on the Web discuss the same topic. “We’ve so much gotten off our heritage… too sexy, and we use the word sexy a lot and really have forgotten the ultra feminine,” said Sharen Turney, chief executive of Victoria’s Secret, “I feel so strongly about us getting back to our heritage and really thinking in terms of ultra feminine and not just the word sexy and becoming much more relevant to our customer.” she added (Source). It’s amusing, indeed, that VS brand hypes up sexiness, obviously simply because it’s a concept that’s popular with the consumer. But in fact there’s not too much sexiness about their lingerie - except Victoria’s Secret Angels. The truth is, though, that when you hire the type of Top models VS hires, it doesn’t really matter what kind of bra or panties you slip on them, it’s all going to look very sexy, don’t you agree? Being quite mediocre, for my liking, Victoria’s Secret merchandise also lacks quality. A lot of their lingerie is made of such material that looks used when it’s still on the store shelves. I realize though that all mass market brands are this way - they put little money into the product and a lot of money into advertising, convincing many to buy.

Truly sexy and feminine brands, though, don’t seem to capitalize on sexiness. Such brands as Courtworth, Carine Glson, I.D. Sarrieri, Eres, Guia La Bruna, and some others, which I mention in this blog quite regularly, produce products that are by far superior to many popular and heavily advertised brands here in the U.S. But I don’t want to be negative - I wish good luck with sales and marketing to Victoria’s Secret, and the like, but I personally will unlikely buy their products again. And it doesn’t matter that they use word “sexy” 75 times in one catalog.

Cheers.
-Analeis