UK intimate apparel and swimwear names to know in Paris
20/01/2019
Salon de la Lingerie-Interfiliere – Jan 2019
Salon de la Lingerie and Interfilière
19th – 21st January 2019
From designer lingerie, luxury loungewear and sumptuous sleepwear to sports underwear and shapewear, UK brands are out in force at Salon de la Lingerie. Interfilière complements this offer with a selection of fabrics and other components, including laces, embroidery and prints.
The UK contingent includes well-known names like Agent Provocateur, Coco de Mer, Freya, Gossard and Panache through to newer labels including Dora Larsen, Nubian Skin, Adina Raey and Marieyat. At Interfilière, exhibitors include Pongees, Her Studio London and London Contour Experts.
For the full British exhibitor list, please see the attachment above.
The UK group at Salon de la Lingerie and Interfilière is co-ordinated by UKFT and supported by the Department for International Trade (DIT).
- Dora Larsen
Dora Larsen is an experimental lingerie brand devoted to colour. Think underwear as outerwear. Underwear so good it has to be seen. The brand was created by Georgia Larsen, ex-lingerie buyer for one of the world’s biggest brands. High quality mesh ensures the best possible fit. Eyelash lace elevates the style. And, in a lingerie world saturated in nude and black, Dora Larsen takes colour as its chief inspiration.
Shell pink, lime green, lilac grey, snorkel blue, saffron, old rose, moss: colour can be soothing, amusing, rebellious or uplifting. The art lies in how these shades are combined.
- Marieyat
Marieyat is an underwear and loungewear label for women seeking to co-create uncompromised style. The Marieyat woman is both her mind and body. The label focuses on seamless knitwear made from natural materials such as cotton and silk.
Marieyat offers a new sensitivity to modern women, blending the lines between lingerie and unisex underwear. Consciously made in China, elected for excellence, ethics and in line with the brand’s origins. Marieyat is gentle and uncompromised.
- Nubian Skin
A nude bra and skin tone hosiery are the basics of every woman’s wardrobe, at least in theory. For many women of colour, finding suitable skin-tone hosiery and lingerie has not been an option. Frustrated by the lack of skin-tone choices to go with her ever-expanding wardrobe, Nubian Skin founder, Ade Hassan, decided it was time for ‘a different kind of nude’.
Nubian Skin launched with a carefully edited collection of lingerie and hosiery to provide the essential underwear needs of women of colour. Headquartered in London, Nubian Skin delivers worldwide and looks forward to growing the company’s offering and expanding its reach.
- Rossell England
Launched in January 2016, Rossell underwear brand was created by founder Jo Rossell from a personal desire to make underwire free, contemporary designed underwear made from natural fibres. Timeless, understated and luxurious the underwear shapes are formed of modern clean lines using the highest quality materials and components sourced from Italy, Switzerland and France. The Italian cotton used in each style has a unique weave, enabling this clever cotton to have a natural stretch, whilst remaining 100% cotton. The bespoke nickel free closure is positioned asymmetrically at the back for comfort.
All Rossell bras are designed to be underwire free, whilst still maintaining good support to the bust. The product is now skilfully produced in a specialist lingerie factory based in Portugal.
- Six
Six is a modern desirable underwear collection that re-defines maternity underwear. Balancing the need for function and practicality with a considered contemporary aesthetic using the highest quality French leavers lace and Italian jerseys, designed in Scotland and manufactured in Portugal.
Six answers the needs of a modern woman who doesn’t want to compromise her style or self-identity during or after pregnancy. The range has a strong clean, minimal yet feminine aesthetic that is designed to flatter and enhance the female form as a woman evolves through pregnancy and enters into motherhood.
- Studio Pia
Studio Pia is ethically crafted in the UK, with a focus on fashion-led, creative design, and cruelty-free, organic silk. Every garment is designed to be ultra flattering on a range of body types, achieved through expert use of sexy, yet supportive cuts, light body-shaping elements, and adjustable sections, allowing for a personalised fit. Designs take reference from the worlds of fine art and couture, where rich colours and textures meet striking shapes, with exquisite construction and craftsmanship.
Studio Pia are proudly dedicated to building a more sustainable fashion future.
- Adina Raey
Adina Reay was created with the express aim of breaking all the rules repeatedly applied to fuller bust lingerie. Shopping for a bra, when you have big breasts, tends to be about being told what you can’t have, what you must wear. Adina Raey aims to counter that.
The brand offers: slimmer straps, narrower backs and sides, and much less invasive coverage. And to top it off cutting edge designs are out-there fabulous, proving that couture luxury lingerie really isn’t limited by cup size.
With no previous experience in the fashion industry, the Founder of Adina Reay, Sharon Lake, set the brand up after being fed up with the lack of choice and imagination in the Fuller Bust market. Sharon gathered a small team of committed lingerie experts to help bring her vision to life, and set about disrupting the industry with the message that fit shouldn’t compromise or dictate how you look and feel.
- Coco de Mer
Founded in 2001, Coco de Mer’s name was gathered from an exotic plant whose seed bears a striking resemblance to the intimate female form. The eroticism of the precious coco de mer perfectly encapsulates its free-thinking ideology and inspires exploration of erotica, sensuality and fashion.
Make your own discoveries, explore your deepest desires and embrace the complexity of sexual pleasure with the assistance of its knowledgeable team. Coco de Mer is where the delicious combination of sensuality, fashion and erotica come together to form a decadently heady mix.
The next beautifully enthralling moment is always waiting to happen – the ultimate erotic experience of your life is yet to come. Surrender to your desires, and allow Coco de Mer to lead you into temptation.
- Corsetorium
Kunza corsetiere creates limited edition luxurious corsets and foundation garments for a discerning international clientele.
Formerly trained at Vivienne Westwood, her bespoke corsetry merges traditional couture techniques with contemporary designs to ensure a perfect fit for each individual shape.
Body sculpting collections draw inspirations from the past without being stuffy and are suitable for tightlacing. Too precious to be worn just as underwear, these corsets are also distinctive outerwear pieces. Each garment is handcrafted in the London based atelier and available only through very selected stockists worldwide.
- ELF Zhou
Launching in 2016, E.L.F ZHOU London has etched out a building block towards challenging traditional conventions of romanticism, creating a decadent yet ethereal range of bespoke lingerie and handcrafted leather artefacts. E.L.F ZHOU was created to fill a gap in both lingerie and accessories market for high quality, avant-garde garments that deliver both sophistication and innovation. Modelled around the woman who wants to stand up and be counted, who is fearless in her pursuits of risqué aesthetic of style and who is unafraid to allow bold statements pieces allude to her own multilayered nature.
The brand source only the finest fabrics and textiles, using handcrafted production techniques at our London-based atelier, with locally sourced materials from Britain, France and Italy.
- Indigo Sky
Indigo Sky is a nightwear label from Marsylka, a company which has over 75 years of garment manufacturing experience. Indigo Sky offers a complete collection of modern loungewear and nightwear including chemises, pyjamas, robes, nightdresses and gowns, using a range of fabrics from satin and jersey through to 100% cotton and fleece.
- Marlon
Marlon is a branded range of ladies lingerie and nightwear from Marsylka, which has been a manufacturer of ladies lingerie and nightwear since 1936 when it was started by Marjorie Hainsworth. The company has small production facilities in the UK, in addition to two 100% owned factories in Sri Lanka which employ over 1200 people.
- Pretty You London
Pretty You London is much more than your average cute slippers and loungewear brand, it is a lifestyle choice. The brand encourages women to look and feel super glamorous and pretty at all times, after all who doesn’t want to constantly sparkle?! Think super soft textures, plush faux furs, silky bows and trims, alongside ultra-feminine embellishments and sparkle, with Swarovski crystals on the most premium pieces. Pretty You London ranges from super cute and ultra girly to a stunning sophisticated practical style, so that every woman from the luxury-loving mum, to the style conscious fashionista, is guaranteed to find a slipper to suit.
- Room 24
Room 24 is a contemporary fashion brand offers a directional take on lingerie, nightwear and swimwear. Based in London and made in Italy, Room 24 is crafting beautifully cut pieces that fuse Italian flair, passion and craftsmanship with a contemporary, edgy and trendy London aesthetic, merging the best of both worlds.
The aim is to bridge the gap between lingerie and pret-a-porter, the pieces are designed to be enjoyed under the sheets or out on the streets. We like to call it “Loungerie”. Room 24’s brand DNA is built on an aesthetic of minimal sensuality. What is unique in the collection is the play on negative space, detail is at the forefront of the brand. Inspired by a passion for quality each piece in the collection is meticulously and beautifully crafted using only the finest quality materials.
- With Love Lilly
With Love Lilly is a Lingerie and Nightwear Boutique, where all garments are designed and made in Britain. Based in our Midlands studio, we offer a made-to-order service sold exclusively via our online store.
We specialise in creating luxurious, unique and comfortable delicates for all girls who want to feel one of a kind. Our mission has always been to create a brand that all girls can love and relate to: Whether you are the student, the laid back chic, the worker or the housewife; all garments are designed with every woman in mind.