Happy New Year 2009!

After a night of New Years partying, don't you wish you would look as good as Katie Downes wearing her best formal Ann Summers lingerie?

Happy New Year from L ingerie Blog!

Nice Angles

Sorry to say, many are ending 2008 in the red. If you have to do that, better you look like her while doing it.

Blue Monday 12 29 08

Japanese AV Idol Sora Aoi (or, Sola Aoi, if you will) seems intent on catching someone's attention. Want to bet that works for her?

Tanned, Rested and Ready For That New Year's Party?

But aren't you supposed to put on those tiny little protective goggles, and take off your bra and panties, first? That will make for an interesting tan, though..

Oh! Christmas Tree

May your view of your Christmas tree be as merry and bright. Merry Christmas from L ingerie Blog.

Teresa Moore - Christmas Wrapped

New Zealand's Teresa Moore. Do you like to unwrap your presents slowly, or rip the gift wrapping off as fast as you can?

Blue Monday 12 22 08

Gemma Atkinson is decorated all shiny and blue for Christmas.. a little more tanned than some of us this time of year, but I'm sure the lady gets around.

Adriana Lima: Scent of a Dream Angel / L ingerie Blog's 500th Post

Earlier this Fall, VS Angel Adriana Lima had the honor of introducing a new Dream Angels fragrance, Wish at Victoria's Secret's Herald Square location in Manhatten.



Proving she does, upon rare occasion, wear clothing over her wonderfully sexy lingerie. She also appeared in the fragrance's ad campaign as her usually undressed self:





And one more featuring Ms. Lima's two best features.. her eyes..



All this in a year where Ms. Lima was accorded the honor of modeling the 2008 Black Diamond Fantasy Bra as well as opening The 2008 VS Fashion Show. Now, it's L ingerie Blog's honor to feature her in our 500th blog post. Here's to 500 more as beautiful.

Quarter Panties? Worth Far More Than 25 Cents

Full cut coverage, thongs, hipsters, briefs, g-strings.. if they have shirts with quarter-sleeves, would these be quarter-panties?

When Does A Tie Count As Lingerie?

When it's all Jennifer Aniston is wearing, as she barely isn't on the cover of the January 2009 edition of the U.S. GQ, we'll let it slide. Besides, she is wearing some mens' CK underwear inside the issue:





In the text, she's yakking about some ex and his current squeeze, and the more important photos are by Michael Thompson.




'Hold that pose.. juuuuust a little longer.. you, on the Ms. Aniston's left, can you hold you arm a little higher against her breast?' What do you suppose these guys paid to be allowed into this gig?



If you're still looking at the text of this post at all, Ms, Aniston's new (PG-rated!) movie Marley & Me opens Christmas day in the U.S., her GQ issue hits the stands two days earlier. A perfect gift for your ..oh, say it with me.. friends..

But, wait, there's more!

From the 12 17 08 Late Show with David Letterman:

Blue Monday 12 15 08

This Blue Monday wouldn't be the first day that seeing Miranda Kerr in nothing more than a sheer blue lace bra and panties would give you butterflies. Another image or two from the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

Bettie Page 1923 - 2008

The sad news from CNN.

Before Adriana, Alessandra, Heidi or Claudia, Jill, Christie, Cheryl or even the term 'Supermodel', there was Bettie Page. She's from an era long before me; she was a contemporary of my grandmother's - who passed away just weeks ago. I can't know what the impact was like at the time, but to be remembered an a pop culture icon all these years later as Bettie Page still is, it must have been a hell of a culture shock at the time. I'm glad in her later life, she got to reclaim more of her image (and, hopefully some of the massive amount of cash everyone else seemed to be making off of her image).

Her official site.
The Notorious Bettie Page movie site.

Edit: More thoughts on Bettie Page by writer Karen Essex.

I came across this rare 1997 interview with her I actually saw on NBC when I was around 13, just when all the resurgence of interest was hitting:



Still not impressed? Think repressive 1950's, no marketing powerhouse like Vicky's or Calvin Klein or behind you, no internet, and no real mass exposure, so to speak, or squeaky-clean G-rated black and white TV. And she pretty much had to fend for herself. R.I.P.

Ana Hickman: Warmer Lingerie?

Ana Hickman illustrates how to stay both hott and warmer this time of year.

Entertaining Holiday Lingerie: The Black Edition

If you'll be doing any entertaining at home for the holidays, you may want to make sure you have the proper apron to go with the rest of your ensemble. Bring it to the table along with the rest of the new line, The Black Edition by BeCheeky.com. Our hostess is Kim Cloutier.

Blue Monday 12 08 08

More from the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show: Ms. Marisa Miller in Blue Monday bra and boxer boy shorts.

Gwyneth Paltrow Gives UK's GQ The Slip

Or, more accurately, Ms. Paltrow is pleasingly undressed to a chemise by Carine Gilson and stockings from Agent Provocateur. A recent discussion about slips and such I had with my girlfriend lead me to remember this Vincent Peters pictorial in the June 2008 issue of the U.K. edition of GQ Magazine. I think the headline writer had it right with the 'One Sexy Mother' line. As we've said before, far better than the more common, more-crass term .

The 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

Maybe it was a change in venue to the newly refurbished Fontainbleau Hotel on Miami Beach, but The 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show just seemed more colorful and energized than in past years. Not that there was anything wrong with those shows, but at about the half-way point during the Pink portion of the show, my girlfriend and I expressed the same thought to each other: this year was just damn fun. It had been right from when Adriana Lima started it off along with Usher. And, despite the expresssion on his face, I don't think he was seriously worried that Heidi Klum would get too far with his hat.



Speaking of Ms. Klum, yes, Alessandra Amrbosio is the recipient of this year's Honorary HK Yes-I-Just-Had-A-Baby-A-Few-Months-Ago-And-I-Look-Smoking-Hot Trophy





Selita Ebanks truly working her Angels wings as well as the runway; Karolina Kurkova illustrating that lingerie is, indeed, something which can be unbuckled..



In the aforementioned Pink portion of the program, Erin Heatherton somehow managed to incorporate fun, hottness, a great green bra, and the fourth Doctor Who's scarf.



Shannan Click scoring a Pink touchdown?



Speaking of kisses, mind one from a rather lacy Noemie Lenoir?



Your Christmas season red from Ms. Miranda Kerr..



Newest Angel Doutzen Kroes had much fun with feathers..





Adriana Lima and THAT bra; and hostess Heidi Klum put a bow on the whole show at the end.




Angels Selita Ebanks, Alessandra Ambrosio, Doutzen Kroes, Heidi Klum and Adriana Lima take some well-deserved bows at show's end. You may say, "What? That's all?? Where's (fill in the name of your favorite model not mentioned), Frank U idiot? This is the third year of fufL, and this was perhaps the hardest post-Show post to write, because, with 35 models - and over 400 pictures I collected, narrowed to 72, then to 30, then to what you see here, the question becomes, what can you possibly leave out? I could go on writing it until 6am, and you'll already get carpal tunnel scrolling though it as is. I write the post after my girlfriend and I watch the show in real time and compare notes (no, she will not add anything to any blog posts, though she knows she has a standing offer). The upside of so many more pictures, models and outfits we didn't get to? Future fufL posts. And, as always, your comments are welcomed.

Check out past L ingerie Blog coverage of Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows here.

L ingerie Blog Viewer Mail: Heidi Klum's VS Fantasy Bras

In response to our post about Adriana Lima finally being the VS Angel chosen to wear one of their Diamond Fantasy Bras,

Jay said...

Frank -
I stumbled onto your site and couldn't be more pleased! I'm digging your thoughts/comments on each post and, of course, the pictures.
Being a VS aficionado of sorts, I was hoping you could help me locate pictures of the (I believe) $10 million dollar bra worn by Heidi Klum years ago in a VS catalog. My teenage memory of the image is still quite lucid. Am I in luck?
Thanks and please continue with the posts.
- Jay

First off, Jay, thanks for reading L ingerie Blog. Secondly, not knowing your age, thus your 'teenage memory', I can't be sure to which year you may be referring. Ms. Klum had Fantasy Bra Honors in 1999, 2001 and 2003. (Tyra Banks modeled them twice, in 1997 and 2004; Gisele Bundchen twice in 2000 and 2005).

So.. I guess that means we have to post pictures from all three years starting with the 1999 $10 million Millennium Bra..



In a catalog picture might also stay with you, Ms. Klum barely in the 2001 $12.5 million Heavenly Star Bra and matching panties..



..and, only because this is a backstage photo from the Fashion Show, not from the catalog, I'll disqualify this one of Heidi in the 2003 Very Sexy Bra.. otherwise, I'm sure you're not disappointed to see it, also with the matching panties.



What will Heidi wear when she hosts the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show tonight on CBS?
Stay tuned..