A New Girl for New Look’s lingerie: Jessica Wright Flaunts Her Curves for New …
December 1, 2012 by admin
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LONDON, November 30, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ –
Alexis Smith lingerie sees TOWIE star at New Look
New Look has added another gorgeous starlet to their list of beauties.
TOWIE’s very own Jessica Wright is the latest model to showcase a brand new collection of gorgeous lingerie that flatters and flaunts hourglass figures.
The television star has already put her name to a collection of dresses with Lipsy, available at New Look.
The High Street store continually innovate by integrating their collections with other designers, names and labels, keeping customers engaged with ranges that are always full of glamour and unique design.
This collection comes courtesy of designer, Alexis Smith, whose creations join New Look’s stunning lingerie styles, which already boast the Lace Edge French knickers and Balcony Bras that incorporate some of the vintage-inspired designs by Kelly Brook.
The opulent collection has been specifically created for women with smaller backs and larger cups, a true celebration of curvy shapes that enhance and flatter this form.
The items are perfect for the Christmas Season, with Gifts for Her that include stylish sets, nodding to classic looks and traditional tastes. The white lace and leopard print is a frivolous favourite and the candy striped bra is sugary without being too sweet. The Plunge and Love me Lace Plunge Bras are appropriately seductive and decadent, showing the more lavish end of the range’s spectrum.
New Look, who often collaborate and house other brands and designers, illustrate their forward-thinking fashion by including some of the most familiar and reassuringly models, such as Kelly Brook and Jessica Wright, who both put the curvier female in a glamorous spotlight.
There’s not a better time to start writing up a Father Christmas Wish List.
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Jenice Armstrong: Steve Harvey Show saves plus-sized lingerie shop
December 1, 2012 by admin
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MOST RETAILERS celebrated Black Friday last weekend, but for a small struggling shop in South Philly, Black Friday was yesterday.
Valerie and Phil Cuttino were worried sick that their six-month-old plus-size lingerie boutique, Lovely’s Lingerie, wouldn’t make it through the month of December.
Ever since they’d opened on May 5, foot traffic had been lousy and visits to LovelysLingerie.net, which features provocative undergarments in sizes up to 10X, had only averaged about 200 a day.
Even though it’s the only store of its kind in the area, the future of Lovely’s Lingerie looked bleak. Especially since this is the make-or-break time of year when retailers traditionally generate the bulk of their revenue and go into the black.
Enter comedian Steve Harvey of the nationally syndicated “Steve Harvey Morning Show” on WDAS-FM, 105.3.
Harvey on Thursday read aloud a desperate letter from Valerie begging for his help in saving the business. Harvey and his co-hosts chatted with Valerie on air about her store and praised her extensive collection of seductive baby-doll nightgowns, custom-made corsets, sheer body stockings and other sexy nightwear.
They joked about how Lovely’s Lingerie also sells shoes that go up to size 14, since many heavy women have a larger size foot, according to Valerie. Within minutes, listeners had overloaded the website. Because I was listening on my way to work, I didn’t try to log on until I was in the office. It took several tries before LovelysLingerie.net was able to load on my computer.
“They just crashed the website,” Valerie told me. “I just got off the phone with Yahoo. It’s working now. It’s just a lot of traffic.”
Valerie is a plus-size woman herself. She’s ranged from a size 16 to a 28. The average American woman is size 14, and she’d long dreamed of opening her own lingerie store catering to women with her kind of fit challenges.
Although she’d worked as a manager at the Red Lobster in Cherry Hill for years, Lovely’s Lingerie in the Pennsport Mall, at Moyamensing Avenue and Moore Street, was her first attempt at running her own brick-and-mortar store. Her husband, a former manager at the Free Library of Philadelphia, retired recently so he could help out.
“It’s been a struggle ever since. We made some mistakes,” Valerie said. “We didn’t want to lose our business.”
For starters, Lovely’s Lingerie isn’t visible to shoppers outside the mall, so foot traffic has been minimal, which is one of the reasons Valerie wasn’t sure how long she could hold on.
“When I wrote that letter [to Harvey] I was in such a way,” explained Valerie, who waits tables part-time at Carrabba’s in Springfield Mall. “We’ve invested everything we own, my husband and I.”
That investment, finally, is paying off. Thanks to her brief appearance on the “Steve Harvey Morning Show,” which has an estimated 7 million listeners nationwide, customers have been stopping by and Web traffic is up. The timing couldn’t have been better.
“We went from 200 hits to 10,000 in a matter of minutes,” Valerie said, happily. “We’re getting a lot of calls and we’re getting visitors.”
Something else is in the works, but she wouldn’t tell me if it involved an appearance on the new “Steve Harvey Show,” which premiered on NBC10 earlier this year. But Valerie said it’s been enough to save her business.
“We just needed a little push.”
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