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Lingerie

A look at the latest on luxury lingerie by the world's top fashion designers

A bra that fits properly is a must.
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Sizing up your bra: how a proper fit may help your overall health

Doctors and midwives agree that many women wear the wrong size bra and therefore risk injury during exercise, and discomfort or worse during maternity.

25 Jan 2025 - 4:00PM

Video | Trump tariff threat shakes China’s ‘lingerie capital’

18 Dec 2024 - 10:00AM

My body, my rules, says lingerie couturier Michaela Stark

19 Jun 2024 - 11:00AM

Valentine's Day

16 best lingerie brands to heat up your Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner – whether you’re shopping for yourself or your significant other, these brands boast beautiful bras, panties, sets, slips, robes and more

5 Feb 2024 - 2:00PM

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Fame and celebrity

Skims does boxers: Kim Kardashian’s brand will launch a menswear collection

The US$4 billion empire is launching its first menswear collection on October 26 – so how do the body-hugging boxers and briefs look, and which male sports stars are promoting the pieces?

24 Oct 2023 - 7:00PM

Sheer’s Lisa Cheng on why you should donate your bras to women in need

Sheer’s annual Hong Kong charity bra drive is back! Founder Lisa Cheng talks about her entrepreneurial journey, finding the perfect fit – and how donating your bras helps women in need

15 Sep 2023 - 3:45PM

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Fame and celebrity

How Kim Kardashian’s US$4 billion Skims empire revolutionised shapewear

Launched in 2019, Kim Kardashian’s Skims quickly gained popularity and is now valued at US$4 billion ... here’s how it became the most revolutionary thing to happen to shapewear since Spanx

29 Jul 2023 - 5:29AM

Peek inside Victoria’s Secret’s first Chinese collaboration, with Rui Zhou

Victoria’s Secret appears to be banking on a new collaboration to win over the Gen Z market in China … check out its latest collection with Chinese genderfluid label Rui-Built

19 Jul 2023 - 12:39PM

Millionaires and billionaires

Who is the richest Victoria’s Secret model of all time?

Victoria’s Secret’s impossibly tall, slim Angels fell from grace in 2019 as the world demanded more diverse and inclusive models – but the most famous among them still earn millions from the exposure

14 Apr 2022 - 3:00AM

‘We’re all practising BDSM on a certain level,’ racy lingerie designer says

Taiwanese designer Bei Kuo’s sexy, edgy lingerie – bralettes, briefs, thongs, bodysuits – with touches of BDSM and punk celebrate an overt sexuality and are for almost anyone, she says.

26 Feb 2022 - 6:15PM

The End Lingerie. Photography: Chien Wen Lin.

‘A dream come true’ for Victoria’s Secret model with Down’s syndrome

Puerto Rican model Sofia Jirau’s ‘big secret’ is out – she is the first Victoria’s Secret model with Down’s syndrome, she tells her followers on social media.

18 Feb 2022 - 11:15AM

How Cami Téllez started inclusive Parade to take on Victoria’s Secret

Victoria’s Secret, with its supermodels wearing sexy lingerie, left Cami Téllez feeling inadequate, so she started Parade, a brand selling underwear for all shapes and sizes.

27 Nov 2021 - 4:15PM

The bralette revolution is here, and it’s a rejection of perfection

With stars such as Gillian Anderson publicly rejecting bra wearing post-Covid-19, experts share tips on how to rock the bralette look out on the streets.

22 Jul 2021 - 7:45PM

Kim Kardashian’s Skims at Tokyo 2020 – shapewear fashion is on the rise

Shapewear is a hot commodity in fashion, from brands favoured by Gen Z that are making more body-positive clothes to Kim Kardashian’s Skims, which is dressing the US Olympic team in Tokyo.

20 Jul 2021 - 4:15AM

Soccer player and Olympic gold medallist Alex Morgan wears a look from the Skims outfits US Olympic team athletes will wear at the Tokyo games. Photo: Vanessa Beecroft

Meet 14 models for Victoria’s Secret, from the Angels to the new VS Collective

First came Heidi Klum, Adriana Lima and Tyra Banks, but now the lingerie brand has retired its Angels to make way for VS Collective – so who are they, and are they really more diverse?

26 Jun 2021 - 6:00AM

Video | China’s ‘lingerie capital’

28 Apr 2021 - 9:27AM

Comfort first, sex appeal second: how pandemic spurred new trend in bras

Cleavage is out and comfort is in for bras and bralettes, a trend accelerated by coronavirus lockdowns when women stopped dressing to please men and some ditched their brassieres altogether.

3 May 2021 - 12:01PM

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Indian lingerie model, 52, hopes to inspire inclusivity

Geeta J, a 52-year-old Indian lingerie model, says she wants innerwear companies in India to be more inclusive and avoid featuring only younger women in their promotion drives.

7 Apr 2021 - 11:24AM

Geeta J, a 52-year-old Indian lingerie model, gets ready for a lingerie photoshoot in Mumbai, India. Photo: Reuters

The end of sexy lingerie? Even the French are changing priorities

Titillation is taking second place to comfort and practicality as the global lingerie industry no longer treats expensive underwear primarily as a weapon of seduction.

14 Mar 2021 - 8:15PM

Fame and celebrity

Did Bella Hadid really just diss Victoria’s Secret?

Bella Hadid appeared to take a subtle dig at the underwear giant, saying the ‘first time’ she felt sexy in lingerie was modelling for Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty

28 Nov 2019 - 3:00PM

Victoria’s Secret featuring a plus-size model may mark a new milestone

Ali Tate believes she will be the first US size 14 model to appear for Victoria’s Secret, as the brand struggles to compete with more body-inclusive rivals chipping away at its market share

13 Oct 2019 - 4:00PM

Plus-size model Ali Tate says she will be modelling part of a lingerie collection for Bluebella which will be available in select Victoria’s Secret stores and online. Photo: Instagram

What’s sexy in China? Lingerie buyers spurn Victoria’s Secret for local brands

Even as US lingerie giant grows in China, women in leading cities such as Shanghai are rejecting its branding and buying more feminine Chinese styles; sophisticated younger customers have a different idea of what’s sexy, store boss says.

23 Aug 2019 - 11:14AM

Atelier Intimo is among the Chinese lingerie brands sold at Xinlelu, a multibrand lingerie store in Shanghai. Its owner, Yilei Wu, says: “The most important thing for foreign brands that come to China is to understand Chinese ideas of ‘sexiness’.”

5 most memorable Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show moments

Annual show, which attracted millions of television viewers and featured models such as Heidi Klum dressed in lingerie and sleepware, has been cancelled this year

13 Aug 2019 - 10:00AMvideocam

Victoria’s Secret hires first transgender model after fashion show outrage

Brand came under fire last year after marketing officer Ed Razek said its annual show would never include trans women because ‘it is a fantasy’.

6 Aug 2019 - 9:07PM

Is it the end of the Victoria’s Secret fashion show?

The Victoria’s Secret ‘angels’, wearing the brand’s lingerie, may never take to the catwalk again, according to model Shanina Shaik

1 Aug 2019 - 4:54PM

The Victoria’s Secret annual fashion show, which features top models called ‘angels’ wearing lingerie, has seen a severe decline in viewership over the past several years. Photo: Instagram/@shaninamshaik

Meet Victoria’s Secret 2018 US$1 million, 71-carat Fantasy Bra by Swarovski

Swedish model and Angel Elsa Hosk showed off this year’s creation during the 2018 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in New York

14 Nov 2018 - 10:27AM

The Dream Angels Fantasy Bra was crafted by Swarovski.

Fashion in Hong Kong and China

Push-up bras getting pushed out of China’s booming lingerie market

China’s highly fragmented lingerie market is expected to reach around US$64.69 billion by the end of 2022, with over 3,000 foreign and domestic players battling each other to maximise their market share

6 Sep 2018 - 10:11PM

Who are the top nine highest-paid Victoria’s Secret models?

23 Nov 2017 - 5:15PMvideocam

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