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Dominique Minimizers: A Formula For Success

Two views of Dominique’s Mystique Minimizer style #7000.

“Minimizers are immensely popular, and in the case of Dominique, have our highest sell through rate,” began owner Michael Chernoff, discussing a category of bras his company has made a specialty.

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Exquisite Form: New Bra, Sleepwear Styles

Exquisite Form, part of BL Intimates (BLI), is launching a new bra style as well as two new sleepwear designs this fall, Stephanie Bronk, corporate account manager, told BODY.

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Sales, Profits Up At iFabric In First Half

Second quarter sales rose 11.5% at Coconut Grove Pads Inc. (also known as CPG and Coconut Grove Intimates), contributing to another sales increase for parent company iFabric Corporation. The firm has also renewed its license to produce certain products using the Maidenform label through the end of 2020.

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La Whisper Bringing 3 Brands To Curve Show

La Whisper’s three brands: EvaShow, NBB and Marc & André.

La Whisper Apparel is an intimates distributor that is bringing, to their first Curve show inJuly, three interesting labels: NBB Lingerie, EvaShow and Marc & André.

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Souhela Ferrah: Luxury Line Coming To Curve

“A label inspired by the island life with a twist of French style,” is Souhela Ferrah, an eponymous brand launched in Bali in December 2017 by a former fashion model.

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Starline and Raveware Break Sales Records

Buoyed by positive reactions from buyers, some of it at recent trade shows, sister companies Starline and Raveware both reported record breaking sales for their latest collections.

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Extensive ‘Luxury’ Line Successful For Axami

Axami, the extensive Polish brand with many separate groups, has been expanding rapidly in the U.S. market. A key component of its success has been its Luxury collection.

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Dominique Continues To Expand Bridal Line

Since Dominique, a brand focused on the needs of the specialty retailer, launched over a decade ago, a growing segment of its business has been serving the needs of women during that most special of all occasions: weddings.

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VS, Pink U.S., Canada May Comp Sales Up 2%

Victoria’s Secret and Pink comparable U.S. and Canada store and direct sales rose 2% in May. A gain, yes, but that is compared against a huge drop of 14% last May.

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Aerie Astounds With Q1 Comparable Sales +38%

Aerie comparable sales jumped an astonishing 38% in its first fiscal quarter of 2018. The event was even more remarkable since the comps, for the lingerie division of American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), were up 25% in the same quarter last year.

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NILS: Many Prominent Brands For Fall Show

The New International Lingerie Show (NILS) has commitments from many prominent brands for its fall show, September 24 through 26, at the Westgate Hotel in Las Vegas according to one of the show principals, Chad Timney.

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Soma Q1 Comps Down 5.8%; Cuts Store Count

Soma comparable sales fell 5.8% in its fiscal first quarter. It was the largest drop in comparable sales in several years for the intimates division of Chico’s FAS, Inc., and came as the company reported the closure of four more Soma boutiques.

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With New Owners, Hot Girl Expands, Upgrades

Hot Girl has been sold to new owners who have begun an upgrade and aggressive expansion of the 16-year-old firm.

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Daisy Corsets Hits With Mix-N-Match Options

Separate corsets and skirts provide a multitude of looks.

Daisy Corsets’ corset dress collection continues to expand for 2018, with the company’s powerful Mix-N-Match concept helping to drive growth according to co-owner Jennifer Reynolds.

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NuBra’s New Seamless Demi Adhesive Bras

NuBra’s Seamless Demi, with or without underwire.

NuBra continues to expand its collection of adhesive bras to provide solutions to a variety of fashion challenges. Two recent additions are the Seamless Demi and Seamless Demi Underwire.

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Delta Galil Acquiring French Underwear Firm

Delta Galil is planning to acquire Eminence SAS, which owns a prominent French men’s underwear label, a group with 2017 sales of approximately 99.0 million euros (about $117 million at current exchange rates).

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Studio Collants: Classy, Designer European Hose

Studio Collants has been expanding the number of retail stores carrying the brand since it introduced its elaborate and interesting hosiery in the U.S. in 2017, and showed it at the February New York Curve show.

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Avery Rose Looking To Add Select Retailers

Avery Rose Lingerie launched online about a year and a half ago, with an elegant, embellished collection of bralettes and matching bottoms. Now owner Jennifer Coll is looking to place the line in select retail shops, and will exhibit an expanded group at the New York Curve show in July.

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Reversing Direction, VS, Pink April Comps -2%

Victoria’s Secret and Pink April comparable store and direct sales in North America fell 2%, reversing the previous, positive trend for 2018. The lingerie labels had reported increases in comps in each of the first three months of the year.

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Smart Underwire: The Next Revolution In Bras

“A Smart Underwire is about to bring a revolutionary change to the comfort and fit of bras,” declared Matthew Fink of Fastech/S&S, a leading intimate apparel component supplier. “And we are leading the way with an extraordinary collection of patent pending products.”

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Posture Bras Important For Exquisite Form

Bras that help to improve the posture have been strong part of the Exquisite Form collection offered by BL Intimates (BLI).

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Changewear Expands With Several New Styles

Not long ago, Michelle Judson launched Changewear, a new lingerie concept which allows women to quickly alter the look of their bra with changeable colored cup inserts and bra straps.

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Malebasics: Planning To Add New Styles In 2018

Malebasics Underwear, a growing collection of men’s underwear, exhibited at the recent New International Lingerie Show, and plans to expand its collection in 2018.

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Perseus Underwear: Success With ’Thebes’

Perseus, the new a men’s underwear line launched last year, is expanding with a variety of bold, colorful styles. The firm takes its name from the Greek hero of legend, who beheaded the Gorgon Medusa and founded Mycenae.

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Impudique: New French Label Growing In U.S.

Impudique, the new French lingerie label, continues to expand with its second collection. Charlotte Catanzaro, daughter to fetish designer Patrice Catanzaro, discussed the newest directions with BODY.

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Patrice Catanzaro Adds Sales, New U.S. Stores

Patrice Catanzaro, the Marseilles-based designer who recently exhibited his fetish collection at the Altitude Intimates show in Las Vegas, reported expanding sales in the U.S.

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Rigby & Peller Sales Declined In U.S. In 2017

In 2017, Rigby & Peller, the retail chain of nine lingerie stores in the U.S., continued “to post a negative turnover trend, mainly due to the closure of loss-making stores,” according to parent company Van de Velde.

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Hanes New Boxer Briefs Have ’Kangaroo’ Pouch

Adding to the growing number of men’s underwear styles that feature some sort of a pouch, Hanes has launched “premium Comfort Flex Fit men’s boxer briefs.”

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Tim Regan: Dreamgirl’s President Private Label

Tim Regan was named, at the very end of April, president of private brands by DG Brands, the owner of the Dreamgirl label.

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New From NuBra: The Push Up Plunge Bra

NuBra continues to improve and expand its collection of adhesive bras, now with the launch of style #L398, the Push Up Plunge.

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Dominique Intros Alana, Low Back, Strapless Bra

Dominique has introduced another longline bra, perfect for the bridal market as well as low back strapless dresses.

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Suddz Now On Website, Coming Soon To Stores

Shapeez, the company that offers an extensive collection of patented bras, has perfected its new Suddz Intimate Apparel Wash, is offering it on the company website, and plans to soon make the product available at its many retail locations.

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Leilani Whitney Is Now President At Fantasy

Fantasy Lingerie managing director Leilani Whitney has been elevated to company president, succeeding company owner Scott Taylor, who will continue as CEO.

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VS, Pink Comp Sales Up For 3rd Month In Row

Driven by strong direct to consumer business, comparable sales for Victoria’s Secret and Pink rose 1% in North America after suffering a 13% decline last March. Store sales, however, were down for the month.

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Altitude Show To Hold Seminars April 18th

During its show at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas April 17 through 19, Altitude Intimates will hold a number of seminars, covering the subjects of online pricing, the effects of Amazon, intimate apparel intellectual property and lingerie fashion trends.

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LuminoGlow Adds New, Descriptive Packaging

LuminoGlow, recently introduced to stores in the U.S., has just added packaging for the collection, something retailers have requested.

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Allure: April Launch For New ‘Adore By Allure’

Canada-based Allure Lingerie is launching a new line, Adore by Allure, which it describes as “intoxicating high fashion lingerie and nightwear,” at the upcoming Altitude Intimates trade show in Las Vegas.

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CLO Intimo: Still Going Strong After 15 Years

At the last New York Curve show we stopped by to admire the colorful lingerie at the CLO Intimo booth. We asked about new directions for the company, and about what seemed to be a sexier, more provocative feeling with the collection.

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Interview: Rodrigo Cano Of EuroSkins Shapewear

Rodrigo Cano speaking with a customer at a trade show.

BODY publisher Nick Monjo conducted this interview with Rodrigo Cano, president of the Cano Group, the firm that produces EuroSkins shapewear and intimates as well as Eurotard dancewear.

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Soma Comparable Sales Down 2.3% For Q4

Soma’s Vanishing Back Bra and Vanishing Edge Panty.

Comparable sales at Soma were down 2.3% in the 13 weeks ended January 27, 2018. They were also down 1.5%, for the 52 week period ending on that date.

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Easton Named Agency For Fine Lines Australia

Fine Lines of Australia has named Easton International as the “exclusive agency managing this brand for the USA,” Easton owner Russ Klein told BODY.

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Brabar: New Teen Line From Wendy Herman

Brabar is a small new collection of “supportive bralettes specifically designed for petite and full busted teens with smaller bands, larger cups” according to founder Wendy Herman.

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Felina Names 3 New Sales Representatives

Felina has added three new reps. Neal Ferst at McPete Sales has the territory: NY, NJ, PA and New England. His contact info is: 212-213- 1330; 732-742-8999 (cell), 212-686-0159 (fax), neal@mcpeteinc.com.

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More New Colors For Fit Fully Yours Bras

New colors at Fit Fully Your include Black, for the Serena group, and Blue in the Gloria collection.

Fit Fully Yours, the company that focuses on large cups, has added new colors and sizes to some of the bras in its existing collection.

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Interview: Barry Revzen, New CEO At Dreamgirl

In a wide ranging series of discussions and emails, Barry Revzen, the new CEO at DG Brands, which produces Dreamgirl lingerie and costumes, described parts of the firm’s history, his background in the industry and an ambitious strategy for the company’s future.

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Perseus: Underwear Inspired By The Gods

Perseus is a men’s underwear line, first available online in July, 2017, that will be showing at Curve in New York. Based in Texas, it is now selling in brick and mortar stores.

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Fitatti’s Unique ’Fashion Slimmer’ Technology

Fitatti, the recently launched shaping and slimming brand, not only offers a new way of catering to the needs of specialty stores, but also provides a unique approach to shapewear: the Fashion Slimmer process.

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Dominique Showing New Styles At Curve

Dominique, a brand focused on the needs of the specialty retailer, will be bringing new styles to the upcoming Curve show in New York next week. These include lace and full figure versions of bras in its popular Aimee line.

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Paramour’s Maternity Bras Find Early Success

Bras from the new Paramour maternity collection.

Paramour, the large cup bra line from Felina, is already finding success with its new maternity collection, according to vice president of sales Rob Gardner.

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Coconut Grove First Quarter Sales Jump 95%

Examples of Maidenform sleepwear and a bra.

First quarter sales rocketed up 95% at Coconut Grove, the apparel division of iFabric Corporation. This follows a 97% jump in sales at the same division in the fiscal fourth quarter ended September 30, 2017.

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Hanes Buys Australian Retailer Bras N Things

Hanesbrands signed an agreement to acquire Bras N Things, a sexier retailer of intimate apparel with 170 shops across Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

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