Lingerie exhibit reflects sensuality and women's emancipation

Miami â€"  Apart from defining and highlighting the feminine form with sheerness and lace, lingerie over the past century-and-a-half has reflected the social progress of women, who are now much more independent and self-confident.

The "French Lingerie" exhibition starting Wednesday in Miami Beach will feature hundreds of ladies' undergarments, providing evidence that once liberated, literally, from the corsets that constrained them up until the 20th century, women are now using undergarments as an end in themselves and in unanticipated ways.

Up until the late 1980s, women generally selected their lingerie to please their partners, but since then they have grown in self-confidence, acquiring their own autonomy and selecting their lingerie for themselves, the curator of the exposition, Catherine Ormen, told EFE.

During a tour of the exhibit, with pieces ranging from burlesque to minimalist and made of modern fabrics along with the classic cotton and satin, the French fashion historian said that the advances in lingerie doubtless are a reflection of women's "emancipation."

Through the evolving styles of women's undergarments, the exhibition reveals that - quite apart from their original function of providing covering and better hygiene - women are now taking advantage of lingerie to model their figures, but above all to reaffirm them.

Ormen says that the exhibit - which is being held simultaneously with the huge Art Basel Miami Beach art fair opening on Thursday - is a mirror of the "history of femininity," especially the changes in women's morphology and image.

"French Lingerie" will run until Dec. 6 in the public spaces of the Sagamore Hotel, one of the pearls of Miami Beach's Art Deco district, and Ormen went into the archives of 11 prestigious French lingerie brands such as Aubade, Barbara and Lou to select the "treasures" on display.

Along with corsets, brassieres, bodices, garters, thongs and panties, the exposition also features works of art in seduction and eroticism by contemporary artists, including French comic artist Annie Goetzinger, drawings by Margot Van Huijkelon of The Netherlands and Japanese fashion photographs by Yoichiro Sato, among others.

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Lingerie exhibit reflects sensuality and women's emancipation

Miami â€"  Apart from defining and highlighting the feminine form with sheerness and lace, lingerie over the past century-and-a-half has reflected the social progress of women, who are now much more independent and self-confident.

The "French Lingerie" exhibition starting Wednesday in Miami Beach will feature hundreds of ladies' undergarments, providing evidence that once liberated, literally, from the corsets that constrained them up until the 20th century, women are now using undergarments as an end in themselves and in unanticipated ways.

Up until the late 1980s, women generally selected their lingerie to please their partners, but since then they have grown in self-confidence, acquiring their own autonomy and selecting their lingerie for themselves, the curator of the exposition, Catherine Ormen, told EFE.

During a tour of the exhibit, with pieces ranging from burlesque to minimalist and made of modern fabrics along with the classic cotton and satin, the French fashion historian said that the advances in lingerie doubtless are a reflection of women's "emancipation."

Through the evolving styles of women's undergarments, the exhibition reveals that - quite apart from their original function of providing covering and better hygiene - women are now taking advantage of lingerie to model their figures, but above all to reaffirm them.

Ormen says that the exhibit - which is being held simultaneously with the huge Art Basel Miami Beach art fair opening on Thursday - is a mirror of the "history of femininity," especially the changes in women's morphology and image.

"French Lingerie" will run until Dec. 6 in the public spaces of the Sagamore Hotel, one of the pearls of Miami Beach's Art Deco district, and Ormen went into the archives of 11 prestigious French lingerie brands such as Aubade, Barbara and Lou to select the "treasures" on display.

Along with corsets, brassieres, bodices, garters, thongs and panties, the exposition also features works of art in seduction and eroticism by contemporary artists, including French comic artist Annie Goetzinger, drawings by Margot Van Huijkelon of The Netherlands and Japanese fashion photographs by Yoichiro Sato, among others.

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Victoria's Secret accused by Cosmopolitan of making 'racist lingerie'

Victoria’s Secret is taking friendly fire from a leading women’s magazine for allegedly showcasing “racist” underwear at the Grand Palais in Paris this week.

Cosmopolitan published an op-ed on Wednesday blasting the 2016 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show for “cultural appropriation” by “a sexist, patriarchal, mostly white corporation [that] continues to take what it wants for its own gain.” Themes and garments inspired by countries like China and Mexico were particularly galling to writer Helin Jung.

“Stripping of cultures aside, the emblems that stood out most were the ones that came from Asia â€" specifically China. The dragon that Elsa Hosk wore wrapped around her body, the embroidered stiletto boots seen on Adriana Lima, the tail made of flames worn by Kendall Jenner,” Ms. Jung reported in a piece titled, “Why Can’t Victoria’s Secret Stop Designing Racist Lingerie?”

“There’s a lot of talk of China as a dominant world power of the 21st century, and the U.S. government, Hollywood, and now Victoria’s Secret, it seems, are pivoting to face a new reality,” the writer continued. “But the Orientalism on display here doesn’t show an understanding or an attempt at dialogue. It doesn’t close any gaps. What condescension, for Victoria’s Secret to think that by wrapping a model in a dragon, it could connect directly with a new consumer in China.”

The author added that “hoodwinked” individuals consider the pageantry innocuous.

“The brand and its creative leads shamelessly cherry-picked imagery, breaking apart aesthetic references from wherever they wanted and stitching them back together again. They’re telling us its worldliness. It’s not, it’s a hack job,” the writer said.

Men and women around the world will be able to judge for themselves on Dec. 5 if Victoria’s Secret sells “racist” underwear. Footage from the event will air in 190 countries around the world. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. blog comments powered by "

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This Lingerie Travel Bag Lets You Pretend You're An Organized Person

Trying to stay organized while traveling can certainly present its challenges, especially when trying to protect your most delicate undergarments. But with lingerie bags, you can easily separate your undies from your outerwear.

This particular bag also offers a way to keep your clean and dirty lingerie apart. Dirty lingerie goes into a detachable mesh bag for a simple transition to the washer. 

To see how these lingerie bags work, check out the video below. 

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Victoria's Secret accused by Cosmopolitan of making 'racist lingerie'

Victoria’s Secret is taking friendly fire from a leading women’s magazine for allegedly showcasing “racist” underwear at the Grand Palais in Paris this week.

Cosmopolitan published an op-ed on Wednesday blasting the 2016 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show for “cultural appropriation” by “a sexist, patriarchal, mostly white corporation [that] continues to take what it wants for its own gain.” Themes and garments inspired by countries like China and Mexico were particularly galling to writer Helin Jung.

“Stripping of cultures aside, the emblems that stood out most were the ones that came from Asia â€" specifically China. The dragon that Elsa Hosk wore wrapped around her body, the embroidered stiletto boots seen on Adriana Lima, the tail made of flames worn by Kendall Jenner,” Ms. Jung reported in a piece titled, “Why Can’t Victoria’s Secret Stop Designing Racist Lingerie?”

“There’s a lot of talk of China as a dominant world power of the 21st century, and the U.S. government, Hollywood, and now Victoria’s Secret, it seems, are pivoting to face a new reality,” the writer continued. “But the Orientalism on display here doesn’t show an understanding or an attempt at dialogue. It doesn’t close any gaps. What condescension, for Victoria’s Secret to think that by wrapping a model in a dragon, it could connect directly with a new consumer in China.”

The author added that “hoodwinked” individuals consider the pageantry innocuous.

“The brand and its creative leads shamelessly cherry-picked imagery, breaking apart aesthetic references from wherever they wanted and stitching them back together again. They’re telling us its worldliness. It’s not, it’s a hack job,” the writer said.

Men and women around the world will be able to judge for themselves on Dec. 5 if Victoria’s Secret sells “racist” underwear. Footage from the event will air in 190 countries around the world. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. blog comments powered by "

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Little Rock police arrest teen in lingerie shop, gas station robberies

Police on Thursday jailed a 19-year-old man accused in two November robberies on the same street: one at a gas station and another at a lingerie shop.

Officer Richard Hilgeman, a spokesman for Little Rock police, said Robert Zachary Kinlow Hunt was arrested in both robberies late last week. He faces two counts each of aggravated robbery and property theft.

He was booked into the Pulaski County jail at 10:13 a.m. Thursday and is being held on $50,000 bond.

Hunt is accused of walking into Cupid’s Lingerie at 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road on Nov. 26 around 2:20 p.m. and demanding a box of “whips-its” and cash, Arkansas Online previously reported. Police said he fled the scene after an employee handed him cash.

“Whip-its” are nitrous oxide canisters that can be used as an inhalant but are usually employed to make whipped cream

Three days later, police said Hunt showed a clerk a small knife at the Shell station at 10100 Rodney Parham Road a little after 7 p.m. and told her to hand over cash, Arkansas Online reported. He took the money and then fled north.

In both robberies, police said, Hunt referenced a 30-second time limit, and the two businesses are less than half a mile apart. Hunt also lives in an apartment complex that’s less than 1 mile from the gas station, according to jail records.

He’s scheduled to appear in court Feb. 8.

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Victoria's Secret accused by Cosmopolitan of making 'racist lingerie'

Victoria’s Secret is taking friendly fire from a leading women’s magazine for allegedly showcasing “racist” underwear at the Grand Palais in Paris this week.

Cosmopolitan published an op-ed on Wednesday blasting the 2016 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show for “cultural appropriation” by “a sexist, patriarchal, mostly white corporation [that] continues to take what it wants for its own gain.” Themes and garments inspired by countries like China and Mexico were particularly galling to writer Helin Jung.

“Stripping of cultures aside, the emblems that stood out most were the ones that came from Asia â€" specifically China. The dragon that Elsa Hosk wore wrapped around her body, the embroidered stiletto boots seen on Adriana Lima, the tail made of flames worn by Kendall Jenner,” Ms. Jung reported in a piece titled, “Why Can’t Victoria’s Secret Stop Designing Racist Lingerie?”

“There’s a lot of talk of China as a dominant world power of the 21st century, and the U.S. government, Hollywood, and now Victoria’s Secret, it seems, are pivoting to face a new reality,” the writer continued. “But the Orientalism on display here doesn’t show an understanding or an attempt at dialogue. It doesn’t close any gaps. What condescension, for Victoria’s Secret to think that by wrapping a model in a dragon, it could connect directly with a new consumer in China.”

The author added that “hoodwinked” individuals consider the pageantry innocuous.

“The brand and its creative leads shamelessly cherry-picked imagery, breaking apart aesthetic references from wherever they wanted and stitching them back together again. They’re telling us its worldliness. It’s not, it’s a hack job,” the writer said.

Men and women around the world will be able to judge for themselves on Dec. 5 if Victoria’s Secret sells “racist” underwear. Footage from the event will air in 190 countries around the world. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. blog comments powered by "

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Victoria's Secret accused by Cosmopolitan of making 'racist lingerie'

Victoria’s Secret is taking friendly fire from a leading women’s magazine for allegedly showcasing “racist” underwear at the Grand Palais in Paris this week.

Cosmopolitan published an op-ed on Wednesday blasting the 2016 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show for “cultural appropriation” by “a sexist, patriarchal, mostly white corporation [that] continues to take what it wants for its own gain.” Themes and garments inspired by countries like China and Mexico were particularly galling to writer Helin Jung.

“Stripping of cultures aside, the emblems that stood out most were the ones that came from Asia â€" specifically China. The dragon that Elsa Hosk wore wrapped around her body, the embroidered stiletto boots seen on Adriana Lima, the tail made of flames worn by Kendall Jenner,” Ms. Jung reported in a piece titled, “Why Can’t Victoria’s Secret Stop Designing Racist Lingerie?”

“There’s a lot of talk of China as a dominant world power of the 21st century, and the U.S. government, Hollywood, and now Victoria’s Secret, it seems, are pivoting to face a new reality,” the writer continued. “But the Orientalism on display here doesn’t show an understanding or an attempt at dialogue. It doesn’t close any gaps. What condescension, for Victoria’s Secret to think that by wrapping a model in a dragon, it could connect directly with a new consumer in China.”

The author added that “hoodwinked” individuals consider the pageantry innocuous.

“The brand and its creative leads shamelessly cherry-picked imagery, breaking apart aesthetic references from wherever they wanted and stitching them back together again. They’re telling us its worldliness. It’s not, it’s a hack job,” the writer said.

Men and women around the world will be able to judge for themselves on Dec. 5 if Victoria’s Secret sells “racist” underwear. Footage from the event will air in 190 countries around the world. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. blog comments powered by "

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RACIST LINGERIE? Cosmopolitan Criticizes Victoria's Secret

Cosmopolitan writer Helin Jung wrote that Victoria’s Secret has developed racist lingerie for its annual fashion show. Yes, apparently lingerie can be racist:

None of that even sounds nice, but if it does, don’t let yourself be hoodwinked by Victoria’s Secret’s brazen attempt to re-label what is clearly cultural appropriation by turning it into a celebration of “culture.” The brand and its creative leads shamelessly cherry-picked imagery, breaking apart aesthetic references from wherever they wanted and stitching them back together again. They’re telling us it’s worldliness. It’s not, it’s a hack job.

As Emily Zanotti at Heat Street points out, when anyone tries to celebrate culture, people will greet it “with charges of bigotry.”

The first segment called “The Road Ahead” wanted to showcase different cultures around the world, featuring items designed from the people the theme wants to celebrate:

Arpana Rayamajhi, a Nepalese jewelry designer based in New York City, described the theme this way: She said, “The idea is that you’re blending little bits of this and that from all cultures around the world.” Rayamajhi created much of the handmade jewelry for the segment; the jewelry included silk threads turned into tassels, coins from Nepal, and beads â€" “a huge part of my culture.”

For some reason, Jung cannot stand this. She also found it disturbing that the company used “strips of culture” in its designs, “inspired by the likes of Peruvian, Mexican, and Chinese design.” Jung continued:

Collection creative director Sophia Neophitou described the hand-painted fabrics used in this segment by saying, “It’s meant to be this naive, homespun … but this is so luxurious.”

It doesn’t get much more patronizing than that, does it? The original version is made by simple people (“naive”) who make crafts (“homespun”), and it’s Victoria’s Secret that can elevate the primitive to something more “luxurious.” What would be the point of the corporation’s untold resources and unparalleled knowledge of world cultures if it couldn’t do that?

Nope. To Jung, all of this is another way for the Western world to show hatred towards other cultures. It is another way for the Western world to profit off of others.

Look, social justice warriors, you can’t have it both ways. You cannot complain about a lack of diversity or that others do not care about other cultures and then bitch when a company does exactly that:

With its positive, pre-emptive spin about globalization and multi-culturalism, Victoria’s Secret seems to have anticipated my response. The brand is leading with the notion that we’re all members of the human race, therefore everything belongs to everyone. But this is exceptional disingenuousness coming from a brand that once put Karlie Kloss in a Native American war bonnet and leopard print underwear. The fact is that even as the world gets more connected, a sexist, patriarchal, mostly white corporation continues to take what it wants for its own gain. Its exploitation of these cultural references is meant to lead directly to profits. And I’m not buying it.

So where does it stop? It’s a no win situation when it comes to these social justice warriors who want to find fault in everything they see. The warriors complain about a lack of diversity, but when a company decides to make diversity a theme the warriors claim racism.

I admit I had a hard time writing this post because I could hardly find the words to express the weirdness in Jung’s train of thought.

But will the warriors ever learn to take it easy and stop taking everything so seriously?

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| RACIST | LINGERIE? | Cosmopolitan | Criticizes | Victorias | Secret | Cosmopolitan< | writer | Helin | Jung | wrote | that | Victoria’s | developed | racist | lingerie | annual | fashion | show | apparently | racist< | a>:< | p> None | even | sounds | nice | does | don’t | yourself | hoodwinked | Secret’s | brazen | attempt | label | what | clearly | cultural | appropriation | turning | into | celebration | “culture | brand | creative | leads | shamelessly | cherry | picked | imagery | breaking | apart | aesthetic | references | from | wherever | they | wanted | stitching | them | back | together | again | They’re | telling | it’s | worldliness | It’s | hack | p> < | blockquote> As | Emily | Zanotti | Heat | Street< | points | when | anyone | tries | celebrate | culture | people | will | greet | “with | charges | bigotry | ”< | p> The | first | segment | called | “The | Road | Ahead” | showcase | different | cultures | around | world | featuring | items | designed | theme | wants | celebrate:< | p> Arpana | Rayamajhi | Nepalese | jewelry | designer | based | York | City | described | this | way: | said | idea | you’re | blending | little | bits | created | much | handmade | segment; | included | silk | threads | turned | tassels | coins | Nepal | beads | “a | huge | part | blockquote> For | some | reason | cannot | stand | also | found< | disturbing | company | used | “strips | culture” | designs | “inspired | likes | Peruvian | Mexican | Chinese | design | continued:< | p> Collection | director | Sophia | Neophitou | hand | painted | fabrics | saying | “It’s | meant | naive | homespun | luxurious | p> It | doesn’t | more | patronizing | than | original | version | made | simple | (“naive”) | make | crafts | (“homespun”) | elevate | primitive | something | “luxurious | What | would | point | corporation’s | untold | resources | unparalleled | knowledge | couldn’t | p> Nope | another | Western | hatred | towards | other | profit | others | blockquote> Look | social | justice | warriors | can’t | have | both | ways | complain | about | lack | diversity | care | then | bitch | exactly | that< | p> With | positive | emptive | spin | globalization | multi | culturalism | seems | anticipated | response | leading | with | notion | we’re | members | human | race | therefore | everything | belongs | everyone | exceptional | disingenuousness | coming | once | Karlie | Kloss | Native | American | bonnet | leopard | print | underwear | fact | gets | connected | sexist | patriarchal | mostly | white | corporation | continues | take | gain | exploitation | these | lead | directly | profits | I’m | buying | blockquote> So | where | stop | situation | comes | want | find | fault | decides | claim | racism | p> I | admit | hard | time | writing | post | because | could | hardly | words | express | weirdness | Jung’s | train | thought | p> But | ever | learn | easy | taking | seriously | p> [embedded | content]< | p> |

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