Getting ready for Valentine’s Day? It’s what you wear under your clothing that counts – and to prepare you, Rescu. has put together the most luxurious and tantalising lingerie on offer. Read on for that and all the week’s fashion gossip…
One thing about fashion: it’s for all ages.
And Karen Walker’s new eyewear campaign is embracing that, featuring women made famous by Ari Seth Cohen’s NYC blog Advanced Style – all over the age of 65.
Cohen’s massively popular blog focusses on women with spectacular style of an average age of 80 – with some fashionable ladies pushing 100. Now Karen Walker has featured four of the most famous in her new eyewear campaign, called Karen Walker Forever, and we’re loving the results.
The models, aged between 65 and 92, are all grey-haired doyennes of the New York fashion scene, and they look resplendent in Walker’s new range of thick-framed, vintage-style sunglasses with neon and futuristic accents.
For all that Karen Walker is worn by celebrities everywhere – including risky fashion faves Rihanna and MIA – the spectacular campaign makes it more accessible.
After all, we should all hope to look so fabulous when we’re post-menopause – one lady even wears a fantastic vintage turban.
What do you think of the Karen Walker Forever campaign?
Image: Karen Walker Forever.
It was one of the most famous wedding dresses of all time, alongside Princess Grace’s and Diana’s.
However, the designer of Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s wedding gown when she married JFK has always been a mystery.
The Huffington Post has revealed this week that the designer of the famous tiered gown in 1953 was in fact Anne Cole Lowe – but the reason it was kept in the dark was that Lowe was black.
Jackie herself apparently only told guests that her dress was made by a “coloured dressmaker”, and it’s only now, 60 years later, that Lowe’s fabulous style and achievements are being celebrated.
Lowe was the secret weapon for many rich families in the 1950s, designing clothes for the Rockerfellers and Vanderbilts. She even designed the gown worn by Olivia de Havilland when she won her Oscar in 1946. A designer of that profile these days would be famous worldwide.
The dress itself, which was made of ivory silk taffeta, is now in the Kennedy Library in Boston. Jackie’s second dress, when she married Aristotle Onassis, was designed by the far more prominent Valentino, and is part of an exhibition of his works on show to sell-out crowds in London.
Lowe died in 1981 without ever being publicly acknowledged for her contribution to Kennedy’s wedding – but her other designs are housed in museums all over America.
Image: Jackie Kennedy in Anne Cole Lowe’s wedding dress design.
When Jennifer Lawrence won her Screen Actor’s Guild Award this month, her skirt rode up spectacularly as she mounted the stage.
Newspapers worldwide showed the ‘wardrobe malfunction’ – but Lawrence is going on the record now to say that it wasn’t a rip at all.
Lawrence, who’s a new face of Dior, was wearing a two-tiered Dior Couture midnight blue gown with a miniskirt over a longer draped skirt, and when she went up to the stage, the miniskirt rode up – exposing the sheer netting used to keep the dress together.
People assumed the sheer panel was a stumble or a rip, but Lawrence said, “It’s the way the dress was structured!”
“It’s a tiered dress,” she told Vogue, “which I didn’t understand until I sat down and saw my thighs through sheer material and thought ‘what’s going on?!'”
She made light of the incident, though, saying “I planned it! I was concerned people would start talking about the award that I won, and my acting, so I thought I’d pull a stunt just to get things back to where they need to be.”
Lawrence is a hot contender for the Best Actress Oscar, where she will (of course) be wearing Dior Couture – and hopefully there won’t be any malfunctions, intended or not, that time.
Image: Lawrence at the SAGs.
What better excuse than Valentine’s Day to get your hands on some new lingerie?
Rescu. has rounded up our favourites of the new collections – and we’re sure you’ll find something to delight your senses…
Helena Christensen is making a huge splash with her new collaboration with Triumph. It’s inspired by vintage pin-ups from the 1940s, and is frankly delicious while also – unusually – being practical.
The high-waisted tulle briefs are our faves – in black lace with pink tulle edging, they’re fun and elegant, and will reduce dreaded VPL.
The Obsidian collection at Elle Macpherson Intimates is her higher-end production, and the results are gorgeous. Clearly inspired by Maggie in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, the collection features slips, black and pink lace and cute silk jumpsuits. Our favourite? The Mila and Anya sets.
If you’re high-fashion only, check out Marchesa’s collection for La Perla. The red lace demi-cup bra and panties are decadently decorated in French baroque style, with thick ribbon straps and a cute heart motif on the panties. It’s one way to wear a label close to the skin.
For something a little more old-fashioned, go for Rosamosario at The Outnet – her affordable corsets, one in black lace and tulle and the other in girlie hand-painted purple lace, are just the thing to wear for a bodice-ripping evening. Wear with a pencil skirt and an open blouse for a particularly hot look.
Cult favourite Kiki de Montparnasse has lingerie favourites for everybody, but their most exciting line at the moment is Muse, which features raw black silk and pink tulle in Art Deco designs. Ever wanted to feel like a 1920s starlet? It’s the line for you.
And, of course, if you want to go all the decadent way, there’s the Birthday Suit red silk set from Agent Provocateur. It features shallow cups, meaning that most of the breast is uncovered – and is generally paired with pretty sequined pasties for the full effect.
The full set, including suspenders and panties, features silk ribbon bows, so you’re all wrapped up like a present – but it’s definitely not one for the shy.
Image: Agent Provocateur’s Birthday Suit.