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Introducing Amulette Lingerie
Introducing a beautiful new lingerie collection from Colombia: Amulette, now available at La Petite Coquette.
Images courtesy of Amulette
Blowout Sale on Saturday & Sunday: 50-90% Off!
We're having our famous, huge, blowout sale this weekend - it's an annual event, so come on by! Hit the jackpot with major discounts of 50-90% off select items, plus receive an additional 10% off full-price items.
Ethereal Girl
Sunshine streaming in. Lounging languorously in lingerie. What a way to spend a day...
Above: Eres nude lace bodysuit; Below: Eres bra.
Anastasija Kondratjeva photographed by Michael Schwartz for Exit Magazine Spring/Summer 2010; Styled by Elizabeth Sulcer. Images via here.
Eres Swim: Eau? Yes!
More on the Eres front - we also began carrying their incredibly luxurious swimwear. Our customers started coming in and seeing that we had Eres lingerie and would ask for their swimsuits. Eres actually started with their swim collection in 1968, and the lingerie came later.
The prices for their range of full-pieces and bikinis are on the higher end, but not exorbitant for what you get. The fabric is amazing - it feels like a second skin, and is meant to hold you in and make you look slimmer. They are a huge hit with a more sophisticated customer, looking for something refined and free of frou-frou or frills. Eres bathing suits are built to last - usually about 6 years or so, even with regular wear, depending on how you take care of them. As always, we recommend hand-washing and rinsing after each wear. The usual drill!
All images from Eres.
Eres Now at La Petite Coquette!
We were thrilled to start carrying Eres, the Parisian luxury lingerie brand. There is definitely a certain kind of woman who loves Eres. She is someone who knows true quality, without showiness. It is the epitome of understated elegance, where fit is truly flawless and the feel is beyond compare. To the untrained eye, some of the pieces might seem "plain" or "simple" but Eres is in its own league in terms of cut, quality and craftsmanship. Eres might appear a little pricey, but it is unparalleled and makes the kinds of items that women wear until they wear them out – and then they buy them all over again. Here’s a little (okay, a lot) more background on the brand. Some is ever so slightly lost in translation, but you get the idea:
Its lingerie collection illustrates the art of the body. Eres innovated, creating collections with resilient, refined fabrics as light as air and designing shrewedly cut lingerie that satisfies every woman’s curves and demand for comfort. The brand dared to use nude hues (like the colors of foundation makeup) and muted shades that had never been seen before in this context. Pastel and powdery tones enhanced engineered jerseys, tulles and sophisticated laces.
Know-how, sophistication and the masterful use of cuts and fabrics are still the values cherished by Eres. Eres (is designed) to enhance the body without artifice, to show regard for its architecture, to adapt to all figures and individual personalities and to combine luxury, creativity and a certain timelessness to all its collections.
For Eres, The Art of the Body is synonymous with the mastery of techniques and advanced skills in working with cuts and fabrics.
Disciplined, designed to respect the body’s architecture and enhance its lines and curves, the cut of swimwear and lingerie styles conceal, beneath their seeming simplicity, a horde of technical details, such as chain stitching and flat assembly of pieces. Thanks to their clean lines and pure shapes, these styles are for all women and adapt perfectly to all body types. Sophisticated, feminine forms have become Eres’ hallmarks.
The feel, the shape and the quality of fabric are all essential for Eres. High-performance fabrics, so soft and light that the body forgets it’s wearing anything, like an invisible sheath, like a well-kept secret. All ensure support and comfort and require the application of artisanal French sewing techniques guaranteeing flawless quality.
Below is an example of their unique stitching. We even love the name: Vous-Et-Moi stitching. It sounds so French and romantic. Somehow "You-And-Me" doesn't have quite the same impact.
Images and text from Eres.
As Light As Aire: No-Show, Non-Thong Undies by Cosabella: An LPC No-VPL Pick
Summer is the ultimate no-show season. What to (under)wear when you don't want VPL? A thong is the obvious choice, and many women wear nothing but - a case in point would be a recent ep of the ashamed-to-admit-it-was-watched show Bethenny Getting Married when Bethenny goes into early labor and at first grabs a purple thong to bring to the hospital to wear after giving birth...not the most comfortable choice.
There are other times besides childbirth when you can't have VPL but don't necessarily want a thong. Sometimes you just might feel more secure going up those subway stairs in a micro mini knowing your cheeks aren't peeking out to all the stair-steppers below you. For those occasions, a top pick is Cosabella's Aire hotpant.
It's a featherweight, completely seamless laser-cut undie in power mesh, which means it feels ultra-light yet won't fall apart. The entire collection is amazing, and just might be the Soire of the 21st century (Cosabella diehards will know that Soire is a mesh collection that has had a major cult following).
Here's the inside word from Cosabella:
"After years of research and engineering, Cosabella has unveiled Aire. The latest innovation in the NVPL Revolution (no visible panty line), created in an ultra thing power mesh with the ability to withhold rolling and stretching without any elastics."
The colorful collection features a low-rider hotpant, low-rider thong and soft bra. Designed in the thinnest, lightest, elastic-free, hand-cut stretch mesh - and for full breathability, it has a full cotton gusset (the technical word - though "crotch" is really what it's all about). It also comes in the staple colors like the abundantly necessary nude, as well as pretty pastels and shades of sherbet (which always looks odd written - it seems like it should be "sherbert" but the correct spelling is the one that makes it seem all French like "sher-bay" - sort of like when people say "Tar-jay" for Target).
The bra was recently featured in InStyle as one of the best everyday bras for small and medium sizes:
It's also super sexy, in that simple, streamlined, minimalistic way...
All images courtesy of Cosabella.
Celeb Spotting: Cindy Crawford & La Petite Coquette
Cindy Crawford and La Petite Coquette go waaaay back. We like to consider it a long-term relationship. Yes, it was lust at first sight. If you see her, you can't help but be mesmerized. But we've come to truly love her and hope we stay together forever.
She came by the store the other day to pick up some basic bras, and our infatuation continues. Cindy actually provided the following blurb for the back cover of The Lingerie Handbook:
"How lucky we are that Rebecca Apsan is sharing her expertise and enthusiasm. I love how she celebrates women's bodies and brings out the little flirt in each of us."
How lucky we are to count Cindy as one of our tried-and-true, long-time customers. She is not only beyond beautiful (and dare we say she did more for the perfectly placed above-the-lip mole than even Marilyn Monroe), but she is also brilliant. Some of the things she has said through the years truly go down in quotation history, and attest to the mind behind that gorgeous face (and body, and skin, and hair). Here is a small slice of her Diana Vreeland-worthy words from the past:
"The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned."
"Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford."
Cindy, we adore you. We respect you. And we're so appreciative that you've stuck with us all these years.
Image via here
Celeb Spotting: David Blaine & Model Girlfriend Alizee Guinochet Lingerie Shopping at La Petite Coquette
Every little thing he does is magic...
Illusionist, maker-of-magic, and performer of seemingly impossible feats, David Blaine and his girlfriend, model Alizee Guinochet, came by La Petite Coquette the other day. He was as kind and charming as can be, and posed here with LPC owner Rebecca Apsan. As usual, Rebecca schmoozed and found out a few interesting factoids:
- He's half Jewish and half Puerto Rican.
- His next feat is to go across the ocean in a human-sized glass bottle.
- He performed a fantastical feat on the spot, at the store, in front of a highly skeptical, very suspicious and eagle-eyed audience. The poor guy probably can't run to the deli without having to pull from his bag of tricks, but he was extremely gracious throughout.
- He goes lingerie shopping à deux...which of course we love. And who doesn't want a little romantic time with their man before he sets sail across the world in a glass bottle?
It was a magical mix of lingerie, love and legerdemain (that's our latest faaaancy word du jour).
How cute is it that the word LOVE floats right above them? Did he will that to happen? We shall never tell...
