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Project Wedding Cake: The Ingredients And The Recipes
Empty your freezer, kids, it’s cake time. There’s no concise way to do this, so we’re just going to plow ahead. Recipes and instructions for the component parts are below, in the order you make them....
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Project Wedding Cake: Assembly and Delivery
Now that you have your cake, curd, mousse, and frosting, you can proceed to assemble your Orange-Buttermilk-Lemon-White Chocolate Wedding Cake. Step 1: Remove Feline Menace, ban from kitchen. Step 2:...
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USA Debut: Triumph Lingerie
On Thursday I was invited to attend a launch party at a chic venue in SoHo for the lingerie brand Triumph. It was a slightly unusual evening, because unlike some launch parties, Triumph isn’t a new...
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Lingerie Fashion Week Returns August 1-3, 2013
Lingerie Fashion Week returns to New York City in a little under two weeks! I had such a wonderful time covering the shows back in February, and I’m thrilled to have been invited back to cover the...
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Late Summer Wishlist
As I’m making appointments to visit with brands at Curve NY to see the Spring/Summer 2014 collections, some of the Fall/Winter 2013 collections I saw in February are starting to trickle into stores!...
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Sweets Goes Shopping: Saks
I’ve written a lot about in-store bra shopping experiences, like here, when I wrote about all I wanted a lingerie shopping/fitting experience to be, here, when I wrote about what a customer can do to...
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Blackberry Freezer Cake
I know I just did a blackberry/ginger dessert back in April. We’re doing it again: the combination is delicious, and when else are you supposed to eat berries, if not summer? This recipe came about...
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Lingerie Française Traveling Exhibition
Corsets by Chantelle, late 19th century I don’t know what’s in the air, but all of a sudden there seems to be a huge surge of interest in undergarments of the past, particularly beginning with the 19th...
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Lingerie Fashion Week Day 1: Bradelis New York
Here we go, Lingerie Fashion Week has started, and CurveNY is just a few days away! I’m going to try to keep up with timely coverage, lest I fall hopelessly behind, although in February I fell...
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Lingerie Fashion Week Day 2: Lola Haze + Uye Surana
Uye Surana appeared in February’s inaugural Fashion Week with a collection of lingerie/loungewear hybrid pieces in a range of beautiful colors: rich, saturated pinks and teals contrasted with soft...
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Lingerie Fashion Week Day 2: Rococo Dessous
“Alexandra” in gold. Love the hat! Always yes to lingerie + hats. Oh you guys. I gotta tell you, the snarky part of me has been SO looking forward to this show. Here’s the deal with Rococo Dessous:...
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Lingerie Fashion Week Day 2: “Made in NY” featuring NaiS and Nevaeh Intimates
Featuring two of my favorite returning acts from last year, the Made in NY presentation was a lovely way to spend an afternoon. It was great to see Nevaeh again. Last year’s collection was lushly...
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Lingerie Fashion Week Day 2: Secrets in Lace
In a major programming shift from the two presentations, the final runway show of Lingerie Fashion Week Day 2 featured Secrets in Lace, Bettie Page Lingerie and Stockings, and Dita Von Teese stockings....
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Lingerie Fashion Week Day 3: You! Lingerie Nursing & Maternity
I am not as familiar with a lot of maternity brands as I should be, and it’s for wholly self-centered reasons: they’re not applicable to me, a childless singleton. However, I have learned more over the...
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Lingerie Fashion Week Day 3: Noe Undergarments
Noe Undergarments is a brand-new luxury lifestyle brand that debuted earlier this year. The Autumn/Winter collection featured bold, sleek pieces like longline bras (in orange or black) with matching...
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Lingerie Fashion Week Day 3: Affinitas/Parfait
Affinitas. Will someone get this girl some stockings please? Oh Affinitas and Parfait. I like you so much. I like your commitment to making lingerie in a wide range of styles and sizes. I like your...
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CurveNY New Find: Sunday Intimates
Whew, Lingerie Fashion Week, the Lingerie Collective, and CurveNY have all drawn to a close. Over the course of the last week, New York City has been an absolute haven for lingerie brands, writers,...
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CurveNY Spring/Summer 2014 Trend Report: Colors
I got to see so, so much lingerie at Curve! It was wonderful, and I love seeing what my favorite brands have in store for upcoming seasons, and what new brands just might become my new favorites (hint:...
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CurveNY Spring/Summer 2014 Trend Report: Shapes, Styles, and Sizes
After covering some of the colors on the horizon for Spring/Summer 2014, I thought it might be fun to take a look at some of the shapes and styles that are headed our way. Obviously this in-depth,...
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Chocolate Mint Ice Cream Sandwiches
Otherwise known as “savoring summer as long as possible, in spite of the magazine covers that are telling me to stock up on boots and sweaters.” For the Fresh Mint Ice Cream: (adapted from The Perfect...
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