Lingerie & Underwear News

• On a Day Full of Go Daddy Girls, There Will Be Beckham in His Underwear - The Super Bowl is typically the most-watched show by women as well as men, but many more commercials show sexy undressed women than hunky men. But H&M's commercial for David Beckham underwear is an exception.
• Saudi Women Break a Barrier: the Right to Sell Lingerie - No longer will only men be allowed to sell a bra to a woman clothed head-to-toe in an abaya.
• Underwear Used by World Cup Skiers Focus of Debate - In a sport where victory is often decided by mere hundredths of a second, racers look for any opportunity to shave time off their runs.
• Carine Roitfeld’s Daughter Builds Her Own Empire - “I want to be known as me,” Julia Restoin Roitfeld, Carine Roitfeld’s daughter, insists, “for what I can do on my own.”
• Nursing Bras That Show Mothers in More Than ‘Work Mode’ - These bras were once matronly, with little color, but today designers are adding conspicuous hues, design details and even nicknames.
• An Underwear Run Is Not for the Faint of Heart, or Abs - Attempting an underwear run in Central Park, in broad daylight no less, is not for the faint of heart.
• GET; Early Birds - Spring collections that feature nightwear worn outside during day described; photos
• Agent Provocateur, Selling Kink on Madison Avenue - Agent Provocateur is ready to underclothe the hooker fantasies of a new class of shopper on Madison Avenue.
• In the Mood For Hot Pink - English lingerie label Agent Provocateur opens flagship store on Madison Avenue; photo
• Long Johns Make a Comeback - When designer labels showed variations of long underwear on their fall runways, it seemed more like a styling affectation than a real trend with commercial legs. And yet retailers are giving some credence to a potential revival.
• At Olga’s Corset and Specialty Shop, Sensible Lingerie - Olga’s Corset and Specialty Shop is something of an institution in Brooklyn, selling everything from the first bras of puberty to mastectomy bras with prostheses.
• At VPL, Wispy Clothes for Your Inner Ballerina: Critical Shopper - At the designer Victoria Bartlett’s new boutique, wispy-clingy clothing is displayed amid medicine balls, a pommel horse and other vintage gymnasia.
• Angels in Stripper Heels: The Gimlet Eye - For the Victoria’s Secret show, the casting for models brings out the fit and the beautiful.
• Top Canadian Commander Pleads Guilty to Murders - Prosecutors reviewed evidence of the scale and perversity of the crimes of Col. David Russell Williams.
• Linda the Bra Lady Knows Your Size - Linda Becker, who sells 200 sizes of bras at Linda’s Bra Salon in Manhattan, says that most women don’t know their true size.