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FYI by Dani Read debuted our fifth season, F/W 2013, a collection titled “ISIS”, on the opening night of NYC’s first Lingerie Fashion Week. This video features runway looks and great behind-the-scenes footage! Music by Morgan Kaplan Big thanks to the talented artists at THE TEMPLE: A Paul Mitchell Partner School for generously providing hair & makeup services!

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Lascivious offers their Kitty bra and Simone bra in Raspberry in Honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

http://www.lascivious.co.uk/

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Learn more: http://OFA.BO/WbWDgC

"Republican women share their history with the Republican Party and how the party's views are no longer aligned with their own. They don't support Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and share how Romney and Ryan are wrong for women."

To my conservative women and men alike out there; I hope you find reason in this video.  Understand that access to abortion, contraception and free heath care may not be for you... But In a perfect word, none of this would even NEED to be an option. Let history show that women cannot live in a country where abortion is illegal and Planned Parenthood is contraband.

Whether you be Republican or Democrat, pro life or pro choice, red or blue, there's no denying that this country has matured from keeping women barefoot and hysterical, to a never ending war on women's rights against right winged congressmen with warped, naive views on rape,  women's health and anatomy.

Now is the time to recognize how far we have come in the war on women's rights and health.  There is NO room for backwards steps!  Protect your rights, your mother's and your daughter's rights in the upcoming elections.

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I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The REPLICANT IS COMING..

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Julia Bluhm, 14, is an 8th grader and has been involved in the Civil Rights Team for many years. She spends many hours a week dancing ballet. As a feminist, she not only wants to put a stop to sexualization and stereotypes of girls in the media, but also to negative stereotypes of ballet dancers. She is a blogger for the girl-fueled SPARK Movement, which fights against sexualized images of women and girls in the media. See her blogs at www.sparksummit.com

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V Magazine: Powerhouse

In Issue 78, V magazine honors what they call the "next big names in fashion" coming from the Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons, Rhode Island School of Design, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and Central St Martin's graduating classes.

Representing FIT, my girl is the only bit of lingerie you will find in this spread.

Counter-clockwise from yours truly:

Mallory Williams, Tara Ricci, Anya Shakhmeyster, Joshua Myrie, Rosa Ng, Andrea Lucchese, Wendy Chen, Mimi Prober, Shannon Green

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BETSEY JOHNSON INTIMATES SAMPLE SALE!

Stop by the Carole Hochman Design Group Sample sale this Wednesday-Friday to take your pick of the CHDG intimate brands, including Betsey Johnson, OnGossamer, Steve Madden, and Ralph Lauren.

Get there early to grab the Betsey eyelet lace bra pictured above before they're all gone!

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20TH: 11AM-5PM

THURSDAY, JUNE 22ND: 9:30AM-5PM

CAROLE HOCHMAN DESIGN GROUP

135 MADISON AVE

4TH FLOOR

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Mine!

An new lingerie designer you will want to remember: Lorna Laurentino

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The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have.

(via blua)

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H&M STOCKINGS FOR $3.95

On more than a few occasions, I've been asked for pointers on buying stockings.  Ladies have trouble finding affordable thigh highs nowadays that don't have silicone in the holdup.  This is so you won't necessarily have to wear a garter belt, but the extra recovery from the elastic causes an unnatural bulge at the thigh, which is pretty much universally unflattering.  But honestly, what fun are stockings without a garter belt anyway?

I recently came across these silicone-free nylons at H&M...  $3.95 for a pair of stockings is obscene!  I thought that there must be a catch, or these suckers will run in the first 20 minutes.  But I've had mine for a month, and they're still looking pretty damn fine.  

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KAORI'S CLOSET SUMMER SALE!

Available now: some of my favorite sets from Sexy Panties and Naughty Knickers (aka S.P.A.N.K, Stella McCartney, Honeydew and Eberjey

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FYI by Dani Read's Spring '12 collection is now available!  These looks are perfect accessories for the summer, so don't be afraid to show them off!

SHOP ONLINE

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A Review of Fifty Shades of Grey.

And I have to say, I'm a bit discouraged that it looks like the best way to get noticed in the book business is to put forth slop that plays little to no attention to detail or editing... I thought Fifty Shades of Grey was supposed to make you feel dirty and bothered while reading it, but honestly, I just felt gross for having payed money for a piss-poor excuse for amateur BDSM.

Now, If you're still in the middle of reading the novel yourself, or you have a genuine interest in reading it, perhaps you should stop reading this review now...

The novel opens with Anastasia Steele eyeing herself down in her mirror, picking herself apart before an interview with her Dom-to-be, Christian Grey.  She continues on this insecure bender for the next five chapters or so...Miss Steele, I do not like you... and not just because your name is overly dramatic (might as well be Anastasia Beaverhausen).  A person can hardly listen to another's self deprecation for more than five minutes in real life, so why would I have any desire to listen to it when I've gotten myself into this solely for the promise of sex? 

I'm sure you've all heard by now that this trilogy is based off of the Twilight Saga.  So to put things into perspective for you, I want you all to picture Bella Whatsherface, put her co-dependent, clingy, mindless character into Fifty Shades, and don't change a thing about her... Then, get rid of her boyfriend's sparkle powers and replace them with an overly possessive control freak with a "red room of pain."  Now, you're ready to throw some half-baked bondage on top of it all to complete your bogus formula. 

Instead of getting off by the sex scenes, I found myself scratching my head, amused, and just hoping Anastasia would stop embarrassing herself with her first-grade narrations. Fifty Shades gives its audience lame impressions as to what they can expect from sex... but in a little place I like to call REALITY, Is there any woman   that can experience an explosive orgasm upon immediate penetration?   

Within the first few chapters or so, it became apparent that the only descriptives James keeps in her vocabulary are murmur, delicious, crap, double crap, crapola, and hot.  At page 120, I decided to start counting how many times the phrase "murmur," was used after every pronoun.  Now mind you, towards the last quarter of the book, I started to skip over the bulk of the whining, but from there until page 514, it reappeared 326 times, and at least once on each page with dialogue...

About 23 times throughout, Anastasia find herself "looking up at Christian from beneath her lashes."  Just curious; how does one look at another from underneath their eyelashes? 

...You're trying to do it now, aren't you?  And I bet you look just as ridiculous as my roommate and I did at our attempts on the 6 train last week.  We were not sexy, we were just uncoordinated and cross-eyed. 

Because of the serious lack of communication skills, it was pretty difficult to imagine what any of the character's looked like, aside from hair and eye color.  But, with the amount of times that Anastasia finds herself "blinking," up at Christian with her mouth agape every time he says something raunchy, I have no choice but to believe she is actually a brunette, blue eyed blow up doll.

I honestly don't have a problem that the woman plays the role of the submissive here.  BDSM isn't an uncommon tantra, and frankly, I encourage more of you to not be afraid of exploring your limits. My problem is that this novel is about an abusive, obsessive relationship, and it is screaming in all of our faces.  CHRISTIAN IS ABUSING HIS GIRLFRIEND.  HE CONTROLS EVERY ASPECT OF HER LIFE THAT HAS ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING TO DO WITH SEX.  THIS IS NOT EROTIC, IT IS FOUL.  If you like your man to be the dom in the bedroom, then do whatever gets you off.  But when it crosses over into your everyday lives, specifically to the point that he's tracking your cell phone and you're afraid to look him in the eye for the fear that he will hurt you, you just might have a problem. 

And I'm sorry, but even if this were the most beautifully written piece of smut I would ever read; No matter how you swing it, there will never, EVER, be anything sexy about the details of period sex... That, I really didn't need to know.

So the end leaves you with a lame cliffhanger and a couple of unanswered questions.  When I finally finished the damn thing, I spent about three minutes on google trying to find the answers with no luck.  But quite frankly, I'd rather wear a ball gag than put myself through the torture of reading another Fifty Shades novel.  

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