Lena Dunham Shows Off Her Figure in Nothing But Lingerie: "I Think I Will Wear …
May 26, 2015 by admin
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How you doin’ Lena Dunham?
Forget about bikinis and bathing suits this Memorial Day weekend. For the Girls star, it was all about showing off her figure in lingerie.
“Love my @LonelyLingerie and I think I will wear it to dinner with some boots a smile,” she wrote on social media Monday night from the bathroom. “Because we are all very lucky to be free.” Now, that’s the spirit!
In comparison, boyfriend Jack Antonoff‘s holiday style was far less revealing. After all, he was wearing black pants, a blazer and a medal necklace. “Holiday swagger,” she captioned the Instagram that was liked by her BFF Taylor Swift .
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The Hollywood couple, who first met on a blind date back in 2012, continues to love and adore each other after more than three years together.
“I feel lucky everyday,” Lena recently wrote on Instagram when snuggled up with her main man. “Even now, as he noisely dubsmashes while I try and sleep. Thank you Jack x.”
But even with their visible admiration for one another, this pair has no plans to say “I Do” anytime soon. It’s not that they aren’t ready. They just wish everyone would be given the same opportunity in all 50 states.
“The idea of having a celebration that can’t be fully shared among all the people in my life and all the people that we love just doesn’t really feel like a celebration at all,” the two-time Golden Globe winner explained on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “So until that’s something that everyone can join into with no sense of being left out on any level, politically, emotionally, it’s just not something that we’re gonna do.”
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How to wear broderie anglaise
May 24, 2015 by admin
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Lace was a big catwalk trend for the summer, especially white lace. There were wafty ethereal dresses at Chloé and Erdem, sexy minis at Louis Vuitton. Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta and Marchesa did smart separates and perfect little summer frocks. Oh, but it did look pretty floating down the catwalk. But come on, let’s not even pretend we’re going to wear this stuff.
You can wear white lace, but you can only wear it once. White is a colour that is only truly loved by childless people who don’t have pets, but do have a driver. People who never eat beetroot or drink coffee.
Lace certainly has its place, but it’s not in normal wardrobes. Lace is for brides or twee vintage devotees or four-year-olds who don’t know any better; for the desperate for sex in their scratchy lingerie sets. Thankfully the 1970s trend, which shows no sign of dying, has welcomed back broderie anglaise, famously the only style of fabric you can convincingly poke a fag through. For some reason, this time round broderie anglaise is referred to as broderie. I don’t know if this is a provenance quibble – like the Cornish pasty or champagne – but it suits the no-nonsense attitude of the fabric. Broderie is the sensible shoes of lace. It’s practical. It’s for people with jobs. You get the hint of skin, but without the sugary girliness or “just spicing up my marriage, be right back” of lace. There’s also the knowing nod to the 70s without the trailing of flares in a puddle.
And if that wasn’t alluring enough, new-look broderie anglaise goes one better. While in the 70s the fabric was almost uniformly white, now it comes in a multitude of colours. On the catwalk there was a lovely burgundy at Isabel Marant, and Valentino sent out broderie in any colour you can think of.
On the high street, navy crops up a lot, but there are also lots of clothes in those lovely bright citrus colours that go so smugly with a tan. There are also a lot of precision laser-cut patterns that make the fabric look supermodern.
Whistles and J Crew have embraced the trend. Go to Whistles for perfect pencil skirts or asymmetric dresses, tops and trousers in black, navy or old-school white. J Crew has really gone for colour, though my personal favourite is this almost polka-dottish monochrome Portea pattern. It’s cute without being annoying.
For more traditional broderie, look to more traditional shops. Marks Spencer has some really pretty frocks and tops, as do Comptoir des Cotonniers and Zara.
As usual, if you’re dubious about a trend then go small on it. For broderie just buy some shoes or a bag featuring a punched eyelet pattern. My tip would be broderie espadrilles. These shoes are back (again, of course) this summer, and I love these Kate Spade ones. They look like wicker, another material irrevocably linked to the 70s.
It’s not often that a fabric comes along that’s practical and comfortable and interesting. I know it’s a cliché, but broderie: what’s not to like?
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