Karl Lagerfeld’s Luxury Lingerie Protege is Former Call Girl Zahia Dehar
August 17, 2012 by admin
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Who is France’s hottest new couture lingerie designer? None other than Zahia Dehar, Karl Lagerfeld’s 20-year-old muse and protege who used to be an underage escort in Paris.
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Dehar is perhaps best known for one particular client, Franck Ribery. He’s the popular international footballer from a poor background — scarred by a car accident — who married his childhood girlfriend, was a devoted dad and an devout, admired convert to Islam.
When news broke that he allegedly had flown a then-17 Dehar to Germany for a liasion, it sparked one of biggest sex scandals to hit the French sports world.
But the Algerian-born Dehar, now known – like Madonna – only by her first name, was rescued by Lagerfeld, befriended by Jean Paul Gaultier and fashion photographer Ellen Von Unwerth, and was reborn as a luxury lingerie designer.
Dehar now has her own website (of course) and Twitter page.
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Lagerfeld calls her a flashback to France’s 18th-century courtesans, beautiful well-paid mistresses of the rich and powerful, in “a purely French tradition that the whole world admired and copied.”
Her first big lingerie show was in January 2012. Her second took place during Paris Couture Week in July, in which French celebrities fought for front row seats to watch models emerge from refrigeratores as cupcakes, or wrapped in ribbons as gifts. Dehar herself popped out of a plastic box, looking like a giant Barbie doll.
All we can say is: move over Victoria’s Secret. Zahia’s lingerie designs are pretty fantastic, plus she’s got a real rags-to-riches life story and some pretty savvy marketing minds behind her. French actress Isabelle Adjani has even said that she wants to do a film about Dehar’s life.
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Sex Toy Sales Per Capita Highest In These Ten States, According To Manufacturer
August 17, 2012 by admin
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Where do Americans buy the most sex toys per capita? According to a new infographic created by the adult toy manufacturer Adam Eve, not in the places you might think.
Instead of locales like New York and California, which are known for their more liberal attitudes toward sex, the states with the most sex toy purchases per person, at least according to the data Adam Eve pulled, are those generally considered socially conservative. (Click through the slideshow below to find out which state came in first.) The top states also happen to be sparsely populated. As the infographic cheesily summarizes the results, “Low population states for the win! It must get awfully lonely there…”
The company also found that Americans spend $15 billion on sex toys annually, that 44 percent of women 18 to 60 have used one, and that 78 percent of those women were in a relationship when they did.
This data is based in part on Adam Eve’s internal research, so we can’t verify it or know how accurate it is. What we do know is that the infographic recycles a lot of worn-out myths about women and sex.
View the full infographic at AdamandEve.com.
Let’s take it from the top. Sex toys are about as “scandalous” as online dating is these days. Then look at how the company frames the data on how many women use sex toys: “If she doesn’t admit it, there’s a pretty good chance she’s lying..” Raise your hand if you didn’t need to be told (again) that women don’t say what they really want in bed, and are maybe even deliberately dishonest about it.
Further down, the infographic that introduces the percentage of women in relationships who use sex toys with the headline: “Can’t get no satisfaction.” So women with significant others only use sex toys if they aren’t getting what they want from sex with their partners? What about the couples who use sex toys to enhance their sex lives? Or the fact that sexologists encourage them to? Then check out the recap below the infographic on the company’s website. It poses the leading question, “Does this boom in popularity mean that single career women are simply choosing sex toys over time-consuming relationships?” thereby resurrecting that fearsome straw (wo)man, the single female married to her job who prefers her vibrator to men and thus threatens to undermine civilization as we know it.
Fortunately, Adam Eve assures us, the single career woman is behaving herself. It’s married women who are buying up the sex toys — at twice the rate of single women, in fact. You know, because they “can’t get no satisfaction.”
As far as I can tell, the folks at Adam Eve think men are very bad in bed. They also seem to believe that the only time to use their products is when you are stuck with one of these bad-in-bed men. So if you live with a sexually clueless man (because of course there’s no discussion here about sex toy use in gay relationships), get out your credit card. Otherwise go back to that great sex you were having with your husband and vibrator. Adam Eve has no idea you exist.
Click through to the full infographic to see which sex toys are most popular and how much the most expensive vibrator costs, according to Adam Eve’s research.
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