We have met some amazing lingerie boutiques from all over the world and had the privilege to share our new GIVE LOVE SHINE LIGHT collection MADE WITH SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS.

Of course everyone is fascinated by the pieces that Billie Piper & Edward K Gibbon selected for Secret Diary and the quote of the show so far from one boutique

Who would not love one of your Harlette feather housecoats

We have to agree, our pink Fyrstinne Feather housecoat featured in episode 5 of Secret Diary is one luxury a lady has to have.

Runway Roses is being fawned over by everyone and we might just have a surprise for you next month… more about this later.

The collection pieces

Such as our Double Trouble Kimono & matching Tie Me Up Tie Me Down Luxury Lingerie set

is dazzling international buyers

Harlette will be releasing limited edition silk & metallic kimono’s made with different limited edition fabrics, there are only 3 or 4 in each fabric so these will be collectors editions.  Keep an eye out as these fabrics are deliciously luxurious with their metallics and matching Swarovski buttons. There also is one amazing detail still to be revealed that makes these kimono’s truly limited edition.

Speaking of Swarovski in the 2011 reviews Lingerie Talk had this to say about Harlette in their article called Silk Lace and Swarovski lingerie labels laid on the bling in 2011  http://www.lingerietalk.com/2011/12/20/lingerie-news/silk-lace-and-swarovski-lingerie-labels-laid-on-the-bling-in-2011.html

Harlette Platinum Collection

The perfect gift for women who aren’t impressed by glass jewels, Harlette’s $15,000 suspender clasps have a heart-shaped platinum base set with 135 diamonds. Harlette partnered with Aussie jeweler Eskae in 2009 to create these alluring gems, and also offers a bespoke service that will customize them for special orders.

Renowned for its sumptuous creations for Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Harlette this year also unveiled its Couture Glamour gown (above) and matching lingerie in a shimmering metallic fabric. It’s a custom order beginning at £5000, depending on the amount of jewel embellishments you choose.

The glamour gown seen on Melissa Reeves 2012 Calendar cover is featured in the Lingerie Talk article, you can see exclusive pictures of some of her calendar pictures in MAXIM UK. To jump on board and purchase her calendar to see Melissa in Harlette Luxury Lingerie click here http://www.melissareeves.co.uk/2012-calendar.html To see Melissa’s MAXIM 2012 Calendar article click here http://www.maxim.co.uk/girls/celebrity/27391/melissa_reeves.html

Well headlines around the world are filled to the brim with the Saudi Lingerie story that we first brought to you in 2009 when Harlette Luxury Lingerie travelled to Saudi Arabia to deliver the 10 day lingerie masterclass for Reem Asaad’s KSA Lingerie campaign. Since then the King Abdullah added his full support back on June 6th 2011 giving retailers 6 months to have women hired trained and ready to serve by January 2012.  Headlines have reported 28,000 women are now ready to work in the Kingdom selling lingerie and cosmetics. We received this tweet from Reem last week.

So its a successful result for Saudi Lingerie campaign and the economic changes for Saudi Arabia as women enter the workforce in this new area.  We received one message this week from a gentleman in London where he commented it was a shame that men had to be banned from working in this field but one has to remember that the pendulum has to swing both ways until it finally rests in this middle.

One needs to remember even at Selfridges on Oxford st, London men are only allowed to work and process transactions at the main cash counters. Men are not employed for the purpose of measuring, fitting or serving women lingerie at our department stores. So Saudi Arabia is giving women the service the rest of the world enjoys which is women serving women in the area of lingerie products.

In China, we have seen a different point of view when it comes to Lingerie. According to the Telegraph in UK, Chinese women do not see the sense in Luxury Lingerie, or the need to spend discretionary income on fabrics for enticing and enchanting a man that they already have.

This is what the Telegraph had to say  in their article The mystery of China’s big spenders

High-end lingerie labels, for example, such as La Perla  and Agent Provocateur, have failed to crack China “Chinese women,” French   explains, “don’t want to spend a fortune on something that only a man they’ve already snared is going to see.” 124 men to every 100 women,   women don’t feel they have to put on a vamp act to find a partner.

Of course the stand out story that is dominating most of the headlines, blogs and arab debate is the Woman in the Blue Bra. For those of you that have missed this story, during a recent demonstration in Egypt the military demonstrated to the general public that they had control by strategic attack on a women dishonouring and humiliating her publically by removing her clothing including her abaya to reveal a blue bra. The woman has remained anonymous but this image of the blue bra has become iconic, an echo of what a delicate tightrope, that Egypt face on the true understanding of the actual social and civil liberties left after the arab spring.

This image has created the term Blue Bra Revolution academics, journalists and writers have been spurred into action by the footage and the pictures discussing the power of women given the attack. This horrific image has become the symbolism for hope, that despite the actions of the military, the woman in the blue bra became a symbol in Egypt for the emancipation of women from religious oppression. Activists replaced the eagle on the flag with a blue bra. The hashtag #bluebra became a rallying cry against the government.

It will be interesting to see the sale statistics for blue bras for the 4th quarter of 2011 and the 1st quarter of 2012 as it has been reported that women all over the world have been buying blue bras in response, that women who are facing extreme conditions either domestically or financially have been buying blue bras to give them more courage if feeling oppressed or needing extra confidence, particularly around men. Its a trend to keep an eye on in 2012.

In Australia the statistics on women owning horses in the horse racing industry have just been released and the figure is 25%. The wife of Gerry Harvey Katie Page-Harvey has launched an interesting campaign to increase women’s participation in the industry by offering a $500 thousand women in racing incentive prize for 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th place winners of the magic millions 2013 BMW two-year-old Classic in 2013.

This prize is to increase the participation of women in the Horse racing industry in Australia. The 2013 BMW two-year-old Classic on the Gold Coast will see the first four all-women owned or leased horses share in $500,000 additional prize money. The first horse will win $350,000, $100,000 for second, $50,000 for third and $25,000 for fourth.

The scholarship prize was launched on the Gold Coast yesterday for the start of the Magic Millions Horse Auctions. Gai Waterhouse one of Australia’s pioneers of women in racing spoke at the event to inspire women to begin the journey of investing in horse racing industry.

Happy New Year

Time to Dream

Bonne année tout le monde

felice anno nuovo il tempo per sognare

С Новым годом время мечтать

سنة جديدة سعيدة

ευτυχισμένο το νέο έτος

bhliain nua sásta

幸せ新しい年

chúc mừng năm mới

שנה טובה ומבורכת

新年快樂

नया साल मुबारक हो

新年快樂

felice anno nuovo

새해 복 많이

gelukkige nuwe jaar

glückliches neues Jahr

bhliain nua sásta

szczęśliwego nowego roku

godt nytt år

2012 is the time to dream

Where ever you may be in the world

Make your dreams come true

Love Harlette

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Wishing the magnificent Melissa Reeves every success for her 2012 calendar it officially starts today

Number Two – Miranda Kerr wearing a VS Fantasy Bra

Number Three - Billie Piper in the New York Post wearing Harlette Couture

Number Four – Hollie Dowding in Harlette MADE WITH SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS for Maxim

Number Five-  Miss Galaxy Britain 2011 Melissa Reeves behind the scenes photos of her 2012 Calendar in Mens Health Italy wearing Harlette

Number Six - Gold Girl Miss England 2010 Jessica Linely for Maxim wearing Harlette

Number Seven – Rissikat Bade Miss London 2011 for Maxim wearing Harlette

Number Eight - Melissa Reeves front cover of 2012 Calendar wearing Harlette Couture

Number Nine – Naomi Young wearing Harlette Couture in Maxim

Number Ten – Melissa Reeves March 2012 Calendar Preview in Maxim wearing Harlette MADE WITH SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS

The best thing about Twitter  is the tweets you can’t predict, just like this one we received from our fabulous stockist in Manchester Lucile Lingerie. We were surprised to see, this tweet from @lucilelingerie as you may or may not know they have the showstopper sensational pieces seen on the amazing Billie Piper in Secret Diary of a Call Girl selected by the award winning stylist and costume director Edward K Gibbon for Tiger Aspect Productions.

Lucile Lingerie have sold the amazing couture piece Northern Lights that Billie Piper has been seen in New York Post

Lucile Lingerie sold out of the Lady Lounge Kitten that Billie Piper has been seen in the Mirror & The Sun Buzz.

Lucile Lingerie also have sold out of the pink marabou & ostrich piece that was seen in episode 5 worn by the American actress auditioning for the role of Belle in the movie of her life

So Lucile Lingerie sells out the secret diary collection by Harlette, the most amazing housecoats in the world, all before christmas

Inspired by the work of Lady Duff Gordon (1863-1935) and the original revolutionary Lucile brand, Lucile lingerie is the brainchild of Camilla Blois, the great-great granddaughter of Lady Duff Gordon.

‘I love lingerie; it’s my favourite part of my wardrobe and is so important to how women feel about themselves. My grandmother had beautiful couture houses in Paris, London and New York and was the first house to make lingerie for women, freeing them from constrictive corsets and Edwardian dress.’

Feeling frustrated at the lack of choice in desirable and functional lingerie available, Camilla decided to open her own store, ‘where women can come in and feel inspired by the beautiful products on offer and be comfortable buying for themselves in a private and luxurious environment. I thought of everything I wanted from a lingerie collection and incorporated them all into Lucile.’

The success of the Lucile boutique made way for the emergence of http://www.lucileandco.com/ and changed the way Lucile operated to enable a far reaching audience due to huge demand.

Congratulations Lucile Lingerie thanks for sharing the great news with us on Twitter

Jessica is wearing the a couture set from the Harlette Black Label  Midas Touch Vintage Bralette & French Knicker, the amazing shot taken by celebrity photographer Alan Strutt & styled by Fay L Bacon. Jessica is currently reading law at University of Nottingham, but you will now her best when she was crowned Miss England 2010/11

During the students fee debate that escalated late last year Jessica was interviewed by a number of newspapers on the issue, including the bbc the mirror, the independent. Jessica had this to say at the time of the debate & protests

”There are enough barriers in education already and it is sad it has come to  this.”

Ms Linley called on those taking part in protests to ensure they  remain peaceful.

She said: ”Protests are a good way of putting pressure on the Government.   It’s important to have a voice but once you introduce violence, people stop   listening to you.

Jessica goes to show that not only is she active in her education for the future, but she cares deeply about the future of her wider community and looks amazing in Harlette lingerie. You can follow the Gorgeously Gold Jess on twitter http://twitter.com/#!/jesslinley or via her website http://jessicalinley.com/

To see the lingerie set Jessica is wearing please click here

http://www.harlette.com/luxury-lingerie/bras/midas-touch-vintage-tie-me-up-bra/

http://www.harlette.com/luxury-lingerie/harlette-luxury/midas-touch-vintage-french-knickers/

This set actually has a matching couture glamour gown housecoat as seen on Billie Piper in Secret Diary in episode 6 of the fourth and final series

http://www.harlette.com/luxury-lingerie/harlette-luxury/midas-touch-vintage-housecoat-glamour-gown/

To see Melissa in Maxim click here http://www.maxim.co.uk/girls/celebrity/27391/melissa_reeves.html and to buy Melissa’s calendar click on this link here  www.glamourgirlscalendars.co.uk/melissareeves. Now lets look at the exclusive calendar pictures released by Maxim UK.

January 2012 Melissa wears the American Belle signature Tie Me Up Bralette and Tie Me Down Knickers.

March sees Melissa showcase the never seen before limited edition black label Sophistkat velvet Catsuit featuring SWAROVSKI crystals.

June features Melissa in the gorgeous couture hand dyed runway roses cami & gstring, this was created to match the runway roses feather skirt seen last week on Naomi Young in Maxim.

August Melissa is Simply Scintillating, we have seen the behind the scenes shots featured in Mens Health Italy, now see the final exclusive shot of her in our Rendezvous Renaissance bralette and french knicker for the calendar.

The fifth and final image released by Maxim is November, and we see Melissa wearing a never seen before couture set called Cleopatra’s Crush.

Its been announced following the success of her crowning as Miss Galaxy England 2011 and recently featuring as a finalist on Signed by Katie Price on Sky Living. Melissa in 2012 will be DJ’ing around the world, so with any luck you will be on a dance floor and look up and see Melissa smiling back at you, to keep up with all her adventures follow Melissa on Twitter @MelissaReeves13.

To purchase any of the pieces from the Harlette Collection, we have included links to our classic pieces for limited edition and couture pieces, please contact Harlette directly via our website and signup to our newsletters for more information http://www.harlette.com/join-us/

http://www.harlette.com/luxury-lingerie/bras/american-belle-tie-me-up-bralette/

http://www.harlette.com/luxury-lingerie/harlette-luxury/american-belle-tie-me-down-knickers/

http://www.harlette.com/luxury-lingerie/harlette-luxury/rendezvous-renaissance-french-knickers/

http://www.harlette.com/luxury-lingerie/bras/rendezvous-renaissance-tie-me-up-bra/

http://www.harlette.com/luxury-lingerie/harlette-luxury/runway-roses-bra-cami-set/

Naomi is scorching in her innocence of nothing but a feather skirt and high heels for Maxim. Look no further ladies and gentleman the winning combination is in front of you and its Naomi Young captured perfectly by Alan Strutt celebrity photographer for Maxim UK and styled by Fay L Bacon from UK Model Folio’s using our couture piece from the Harlette Black Label Collection. To see Naomi all pretty in pink please click here  http://www.maxim.co.uk/girls/celebrity/27274/naomi_young.html

Naomi Young was hot contender as a finalist in Miss London 2011, and very popular with the voting public, she has appeared in a couple of music videos already for Ndubz and modelled for the Dance Nation (Ministry of Sound) for the 2010 CD cover. Naomi is currently studying acting at the Syliva Young Performance School and you can follow Naomi Young on twitter @missnaomiyoung

To order a runway roses couture feather skirt please click here http://www.harlette.com/luxury-lingerie/harlette-luxury/runway-roses-suspender-skirt/ we have up to 1 month waiting list on this as it is a couture piece.

VRAG Mag also ran an interesting Flamingo shoot please click here to view this http://vragmag.com/2011/11/flamingo/and included one of Bordello lingerie boutique fabulous Harlette’s housecoats. Its worn by Clea@Storm and styled by Tess Yopp

@madamebordello tweeted this about the fabulous fyrstinne feathers marabou and ostrich housecoat  http://www.harlette.com/luxury-lingerie/harlette-luxury/fyrstinne-feathers-luxury-wrap/

 The first question people ask is what does Frystinne mean? Well its Norwegian for Princess

The second question people often ask, whats it like to wear, is it soft, well if you’re in London pop over to Bordello Boutique and see and touch for yourself they are located on 55 Great Eastern Street  City of London, Greater London EC2A 3HP, United Kingdom 020 7503 3334.

The third question is I have seen this before, and the answer is yes on episode five of the 4th and final series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl when the tall blond actress is auditioning for the part of Belle in New York.

Every girl needs to feel like a Princess and this week thanks to MAXIM UK and VRAG MAG  they have shown you two deliciously pink princess outfits to add to your lingerie wardrobe.

A note for those that don’t get to London and are in the north, please talk with Lucile Lingerie in Manchester they are also stockists of Harlette.

Rissikat is wearing a Harlette Black Label Rendezvous Renaissance Tie Me Up Bralette and French Knickers set that was seen on the catwalk in Paris.  To see Rissikat smoulder in this set please see Maxim article by clicking here http://www.maxim.co.uk/girls/celebrity/27202/rissikat_bade.html

Rissikat has recently appeared in Vouge Italy in an aticle called ‘Miss London Dances in the Rain in Red’ shows Miss London in her red dress calling it ‘The Look of the Day’. http://www.vogue.it/en/vogue-black/look-of-the-day/2011/10/rissikat-bade

The image of Rissikat in the rain has been seen in both Vogue Italy and the Daily Mail

Born in Congo to Nigerian parents, the 5ft 10 model speaks fluent Russian and Ukrainian, is learning French and is studying for a law degree at London’s Southbank University as well as taking a journalism course. After growing up in the Ukraine Miss Bade moved to London.

Thanks to stylist and owner of UK Model Folios, Fay L Bacon, Harlette Luxury Lingerie was selected for Rissikat on her MAXIM shoot with celebrity photographer Alan Strutt. We are very excited to be working with Rissikat and you can follow all her adventures on twitter @RissikatBade

Once again thank you to MAXIM UK for showing us all just how smouldering Rissikat is.