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CVS Now Selling Heidi Klum Solutions Line

Heidi Klum solutions products on CVS.com.

Naked Brand Group Limited, the result of the recent merger between Bendon and Naked, announced an agreement to launch its Heidi Klum Intimates Solutions Line in CVS stores.

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Naked Underwear Now Sold At Costco Australia

Naked Brand Group Limited, the result of the recent merger between Naked and Bendon, “has launched Bendon’s new mass-market diffusion program featuring Bendon’s best-selling women’s comfortable brief design with Costco Australia.”

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Legg Story Launches New Bridal Collection

Legg Story has launched a new bridal collection which includes stockings, tights and “hold ups for brides to be,” which come with matching lace garter belts, according to a spokesperson.

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Morro Acquires JOCKO Men’s Apparel Brand

Morro Capital, a Miami-based menswear group, has acquired the JOCKO apparel brand. The athletic label was founded in Los Angeles 25 years ago by Michael Lee.

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Wood Intros Confetti Men’s Underwear Line

Wood Underwear has introduced a new collection for spring summer 2019 “with confetti inspired vibrant colors and prints,” according to founder Terresa Zimmerman.

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Wylde Lingerie: New Line Coming To Curve

Wylde Lingerie is a new brand, launched in January, that will exhibit for the first time at the upcoming Curve show.

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PantyProp Offers Stores Leak Proof Swimwear

PantyProp, the solutions company that makes a range of leak proof underwear, other apparel and swimwear for women and teens, is now offering retailers a collection of swim suits.

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The Breast Friend: New Bra Clip Improves Fit

The Breast Friend, a new bra clip that improves the fit of bras, will be exhibiting at the upcoming Curve show. Designer and owner Christopher Webb told BODY it is the first trade show for the item, which has only been sold, to date, to consumers on his website.

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MOD by Parfait Intros S/S 2019 Swim Groups

MOD by Parfait, sister brand to Parfait, has expanded upon the successful debut of its swim collection last year with a new collection for the Spring/Summer 2019 season.

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Van de Velde Sales Fell 3.9% In First Half 2018

Sales in the first half of 2018 slipped 3.9% at Van de Velde, the Belgium-based company that owns the Marie Jo, PrimaDonna and Andres Sarda wholesale brands, as well as international retail chains including the Rigby & Peller (formerly Intimacy) stores in the U.S.

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Kaliopi Eleni: New Silk Resource At Curve

Kaliopi Eleni, the eponymous label from an Australian designer and actress, is composed of “luxurious silk loungewear for lovers, honeymooners, holiday makers and anyone dreaming of exotica, mystery and romance in faraway mystical places.”

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Axami Expanding Its Sexy Collection In U.S.

Axami, the Polish brand with several lines, including luxury, basic, bridal and plus size, has also found success in the U.S. with its sexy collection.

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Aakar: New Indian Firm Showing At NY Curve

Aakar is an interesting new source for intimates, coming to the New York Curve for this first time this summer. The India-based supplier already has a U.S. distributor.

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Luxury Post-Surgical Bras From Crisscross

The Nina and Grace bras from Crisscross Intimates are “luxe post-surgical bras for any stage or phase of breast surgery,” explained Jean Criss, owner of the company.

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VS, Pink U.S., Canada June Comp Sales -1%

Examples of new T-shirt bras, a July focus for Victoria’s Secret.

Victoria’s Secret and Pink U.S. and Canadian comparable company-owned store sales fell 6% in June (following a 12% drop last June). When the direct business for those brands is added in, the combined comps for the two labels declined only 1% (following a 17% drop in June 2017).

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Raveware: ‘Dionysus’ Is New Men’s Collection

Raveware, the sister brand to Starline, is launching a new line of “bondage inspired play wear for men,” according to CEO John Wiltgen.

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New ILS: Many Top Brands For Fall Event

The New International Lingerie Show (NILS) will have many prominent brands exhibiting at its fall show, September 24 through 26, at the Westgate Hotel in Las Vegas.

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Mapalé: Camouflage Group ‘Most Successful’

A military inspired, camouflage-based lingerie group proved to be a surprise hit for Mapalé, the Florida intimates, swim, resort, dance and beachwear producer.

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Plus Sizes Are Popular For Studio Collants

“Our philosophy is all women are beautiful,” declared Josh Ordonio, the U.S. sales contact for Studio Collants. “Our desire is to provide plus size styles to all our curvy customers.”

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Escante About To Intro New Collection, Catalog

Escante’s latest collection, as well as a new catalog, are both nearing completion, with showings of the former and mailings of the latter beginning in July. Deliveries will start August 25.

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Parfait Intros First Swim Collection For SS’19

Parfait, the “size-inclusive lingerie brand,” has launched its “first-ever swimwear collection for the Spring/Summer 2019 season.” This follows the successful addition last year of swimwear as part of its new sister brand, MOD by Parfait.

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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 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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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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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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