By the 1930s the pinup had emerged as an American icon, appearing on the cover of pulp magazines, dime-store novels and saucy calendars across the country. Multiple artists made their careers painting the pinup in all her splendor, imagining every possible situation that could leave a woman standing in her stockings, busting out of her [...]
We are pleased to unveil the very latest of our in-house deluxe glamour collection, Dessous Bohèmes. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the dashing Ginger silk halter and tap pantie and the red hot Weimar Duchess satin garter belt. Both styles are fashioned from the finest of materials and specially designed to bring out the [...]
Here are some of the fashions featured in Fashion Week 2011 by the designers Peter Som, Christian Siriano, Luca Luca and BCBG. Enlarge Glimpses of Fashion Week 2011 gallery (14 photos)
You may think synthetic fibers are a post-modern creation having little to do with vintage fashion. Think again retro lovers, because generations of people have been wearing man-made materials for longer than you’d think. One synthetic in particular that plays an important role in the history of lingerie is rayon. Rayon was the first man-made [...]
The scandalous fun of the roaring 20s came to a screeching halt when the stock market crashed in 1929. Unable to keep up the extravagance sustained by spendthrift millionaire clients, the colorful dance halls and opulent nightclubs of the bygone era, like the Ziegfeld Follies, dropped their curtains for the last time in the early [...]
One of the most influential elements in the evolution of pinup culture was film. What would the pinup be without the advent of the movies? In the 1920s and 30s the American film industry successfully created and distributed a fantasy that burrowed into the hearts and imaginations of the nation. The impact of this revolutionary [...]