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Harlette Epigenetic Experience

Posted in Fashion, Lifestyle, Fashion Design, Fashion Manufacturing, 10 Downing St, Norway, London, Los Angeles, Fashion Illustration, Harlette, Paris, Lingerie, Oscars, Hollywood, Movies, Fashion Week, New York, Academic Research, Womens Empowerment with tags , , , , , , , , on April 11, 2024 by harlette

Can Epigenetics Shine a Light On Fat

I found some photos of when I started my PhD in Space Telecommunications, its been on pause for some time just like these photos. I have been deep diving into the world of Epigenetics and that word that is like Kryptonite to many in the fashion world let alone the movie business. Its all ok until you start gaining weight or God forbid actually let yourself go and become Fat.

Epigenetics is about shining the light of what drives your fat genes in conditions that can be changed eg your either on or your off. Lots of environmental factors can determine them

What happens if you get Fat from factors outside your control like a course of antibiotics or getting sick. Some data suggestes that infections can actually turn your fat epigenetic on. Interesting

There are 11 types of Female Body Archetypes

There is 56% of female archetypes that have more fat than 44% of other female archetypes

16% of these 56% have the most amount of fat of all the female archetypes

Yet the fashion industry only cut their patterns for 1 of 11 female body archetypes what happens to the other 10 female body archtypes.

Like Joan from Mad Men

and The Presidents Wife in Scandal

This is really interesting stuff, men have less body fat than women and women have 11 different body types and need really 11 different patterns to be made for clothes to really fit them.

Its a jungle out there in the change rooms and the bedrooms at home all these female body archetypes trying to fit into something that is cut for 32 24 32 when they are 36 28 42 how does that work.

Environmental variables such as nutrition and lifestyle may contribute to this tendency. These variables have the ability to change gene expression without affecting the DNA sequence, which is a phenomenon known as epigenetics.

Baftas 2022 60 Years of Bond

Posted in CELEBRITY, Couture, Design, Diamonds, Fashion, Fashion Design, Film, Harlette, Haute Couture, Hollywood, Lifestyle with tags , on March 28, 2022 by harlette

Baftas Celebrates 60 years of Bond

Velvet

Fashion Forward

Brooches for Men

Best Dress

Avant- Garde

Style Set

Dame Shirley Diamonds are Forever 60 years of Bond

Our first piece for the Collection named Diamonds are Forever made a global TV show, a debut catwalk in Paris made in Black Velvet with Diamonds in Sheer Silk with silk ties and feathers & luxury wrap

Final preparations are made to BAFTA awards prior to the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Harlette Highlights – Harlette Heartlette & Made in UK

Posted in 10 Downing St, Art, Australia, Beachwear, BIKINI, Caribbean, Couture, Couture Lingerie, Cruisewear, Design, Diamonds, Elite Traveller, Fabric, Fashion, Fashion Design, Fashion Illustration, Fashion Manufacturing, Fashion Week, Feathers, Film, France, Harlette, Haute Couture, House of Commons, Jewellery, Lace, Lifestyle, Lingerie, Lingerie Models, London, Luxury Lingerie, Luxury Swim, Luxury Underwear, Mayfair, Paris, Patent, Pearls, Platinum Lingerie, POLITICS, Sydney, Tall Ships, Underwear, United Kingdom on September 17, 2020 by harlette

Harlette have released two new highlights in the #ITGIRLLINGERIETV show series

The first Harlette Highlight is Harlette Heartlette

Take the journey from Sydney to Paris to London and follow the creation of the Heartlettes that get launched in Paris and then make it a TV show called the Next Big Thing and invited to a magazine shoot in London

The second Harlette Highlight released today is Made in UK a look at the collection of Luxury Lingerie made in London for the pilot Catwalk for IT Girl Lingerie TV show and set to backdrop of video in London you might recognise someone in this video

Enjoy & Have a Great Day

Harlette Highlights – IT Girl Lingerie

Posted in Beachwear, BIKINI, Caribbean, Couture, Couture Lingerie, Cruisewear, Design, Diamonds, Fabric, Fashion, Fashion Design, Fashion Manufacturing, Film, France, Harlette, Haute Couture, Jewellery, Lace, Lingerie, Lingerie Calendar, Lingerie Models, London, Luxury Lingerie, Luxury Swim, Luxury Underwear, Paris, Pearls, Platinum Lingerie, Reality TV Show, Silk, Super Models, SWIMMING, Swimwear, TV, Underwear, United Kingdom on August 31, 2020 by harlette

Harlette Highlights – IT Girl Lingerie from Harlette

Enjoy

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Are we still British if we didn’t Brexit today?

Posted in 10 Downing St, boxers, briefs, Couture Lingerie, Design, Fabric, Fashion, Fashion Design, Fashion Illustration, Fashion Manufacturing, Fashion Week, Film, Harlette, Haute Couture, House of Commons, Lingerie, London, London Buses, Luxury Lingerie, Luxury Swim, Mayfair, POLITICS, United Kingdom with tags on October 31, 2019 by harlette

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Today was supposed to be the biggest day in British history since well maybe March.

Not sure about you but there comes a time in £££~~#33# $$$$$ global girl or guys life when all this digital disruption from Brexit just gets in the way of what to pack in your suitcase

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Do you have to fly back to vote? Do you have to fly back to be there to watch Big Ben strike midnight on the Day we become more British than British.

Seriously I am asking myself what happens if all this debating about Scotland becoming independent does to Brand British or Brand Britain. Are we at the point that it could be considered less British if you voted remain or now your more British if you voted leave?

Back in 1707 before the acts of Union the commonwealth flag looked a little like this not exactly the easiest design for Austin Powers to have on his knickers

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The election on 12th of December could make things a little difficult for Austin Powers

So as an emerging trend for Spring Summer 2022 and Autumn Winter 2023 do we plan for a new British flag lingerie & swim collections

Or as part of the Brexit divorce England and the amendments to the Withdrawal Bill London & England gets to keep the Flag ??

Think all the iconic images of British Pop, art, film fashion what happens if it becomes vintage overnight?

Social Media = Social Saved? yet they say Prevention is better than the Cure if your a Property Developer or a Government please steal this idea xxx

Posted in 10 Downing St, Academic Research, Art, Charity, Design, Elite Traveller, Fashion, Fashion Design, Film, Harlette, Hollywood, Hotels, House of Commons, Laptop, Lifestyle, London, Los Angeles, Magazines, Movies, New York, Norway, Photography, Property Development, Reality TV Show, Sailing, Space Travel, Technology, TV, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, United States of America, Virgin, Writing with tags , on October 8, 2019 by harlette

How do you stop this happening in the future

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/music/homeless-opera-singer-performs-concert-after-becoming-online-sensation/ar-AAIpBSc?ocid=spartanntp

Its an amazing story of how LAPD, changed the life of a homeless opera singer, what resulted was a $61,000 go fund me page a record deal and people now working on a permanent place for the Russian homeless opera singer to live.

But what happens if your not an Opera singer and your just Homeless?

The back story after falling ill, the opera singer became homeless in the state of California. and after LAPD social went viral she was saved.

Yet not everyone has this experience, and the idea of homelessness is on my mind, its everywhere, I have been blessed to travel and I often listen to radio, I notice that more adverts on radio talk about food banks, that children don’t have enough money to by school uniforms or pencils or food for school.

I thought about the challenge and what solutions are available to this, every major capital has the problem of young people unable to live the same dream of owning their own homes as their parents did?

This problem suddenly found inspiration, a new way of thinking, even last week I was looking for sites in Cornwall for this idea that was inspired by musicians, models, artists, technology leaders and corporations.

A creative Pod as a place to live, create and save to own.

Imagine if your making your first album, that in the same place people are making fashion collections with 3d scanners, making music video’s, movies, photo shoots, space based software and everyone around you is totally creating. A bit like university only its where you live. Your on your own your very own creative campus.

You have your own pod, where its like a dorm room with your own bathroom. A bit like the Imperial College London Hotel, during the summer they open their student dorms up as a hotel.  People can swim, stay and have communal areas.

http://www.imperial.ac.uk/visit/summer-accommodation/stay-with-us/our-rooms/

Maybe you still as an emerging creative work during times of the week, but when you get home and have time on the weekends there around you is a creative buzz. So you cant forget to follow your dream.

Its a little Eutopian but hey, you have to start somewhere on a solution.

The problem is every student, artist, dreamer, writer or just lover of life has to earn a living, has to have somewhere to live and most emerging artists find themselves in cycle  trading their precious creative time to pay rent equals dreams on the back burner.

The collection, the record, the software, the photoshoot, the new shoe collection, the first movie script, the first movie short film, the first AI program all waits and waits and sometimes it just never gets created because after working 64 hours to cover eating rent and transportation the desire to create is just not there.

Now add to the mix that usually the most creative in the world are sometime the ones with the most limited access to capital.

How do artists inspire each other and create and own their own living space. In Norway every student graduates to get a loan for studio, then once this paid they graduate to a home for the new family and children.

Ok but the USA and UK and Australia are not Norway I here you say.

So here is an idea for all the property developers with a heart take a property like the one I have found in Newquay £2.75 million

Land for sale in Development Site For 74 Apartments, Newquay, Cornwall TR7

Guide price £2,750,000 (£4,741,379.31/ac)

Read more at https://www.primelocation.com/for-sale/commercial/details/48163984#iq8jBBWIRQm3dr0t.99

Check its by the beach – Cornwall – inspiration and walks for budding creatives

Check its by an airport – Newquay – 60 mins to London

Check its near a Spaceport – Newquay

Check it has trains – and public transport

Check Greta can sail here to do a talk

Check you can sail to New York from here ( I think)

Now here is the place where the finance boffins and property developers need to get their excel spreadsheet and pocket calculators out.

How much would you need to rent each one of these rooms out to a creative and how long would it take for the creative to own it?

So the new way of developing is that the people renting them are on lease to buy, the model is that each person is paying each week to own the room. Once they pay it off they can sell it to another creative wanting to live and work at the creative campus.

The tricky bit is where the Magic happens

  1. How can you get license deals with Record Studio’s to set up recording studio spaces and equipment.
  2. How can you get license deals with Microsoft to supply the Tech Stack for the Developers Dream
  3. How can you get studio set up for green screens and camera’s like Sony
  4. How can you get people that have created to visit for Motivation Monday
  5. How do you get Space Entrepreneurs to visit to inspire the latest space related software ideas that are out of this world

This is just a thought for all those bored Property Developers & Producers looking for a social edge this week and governments that are looking for new ways of thinking about solutions to the housing and young peoples challenge.

Spare a thought today for Hong Kong

One of the things that Hong Kong students said is they live in the most expensive city for property in the world. They don’t have many jobs and they are expected to pay the highest rent in the world for the smallest square meterage in the world.

Now if everyone had access to making their dreams come true where they lived, making movies, music, films, writing etc would they be as stressed and unhappy as they currently are?

Young people have big dreams and how quickly they can get them out to the world makes the difference from being discovered to undiscovered.

Have a great week xxx

 

 

 

10 Year Anniversary – Saudi Lingerie Campaign

Posted in Academic Research, Anniversary, Braconomics, Harlette, Lingerie, lingerie fittings, Middle East, POLITICS, Saudi Arabia, Uncategorized with tags , , , on June 17, 2019 by harlette

Its the 10 year anniversary of when Reem invited the Founder of Harlette Luxury Lingerie & Swimwear Naomi McGill B.IT, MBA to hold a lingerie class to assist women who were entering the workforce to sell lingerie. Until then only men were allowed to sell lingerie in stores.

Reem Asaad created the Saudi lingerie campaign in 2008 and within a few years the campaign’s impact changed the laws in Saudi for women to work in 2011.

Thomas w Lippman covered the story of the lingerie campaign in his book Saudi Arabia on the Edge – An Uncertain Future of an American Ally.

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Page 162 Saudi Lingerie Campaign Naomi McGill

Page 163 Saudi Lingerie Campaign Reem Asaad

Saudi Arabia on the Edge Back Cover

https://twitter.com/Reem_Asaad/status/1011217338866249728

Today Harlette Luxury Lingerie & Celebrates the bravery of Reem Asaad and all the women that took this 1st class on Lingerie by the KSA Lingerie Campaign in Saudi Arabia ten years ago.

 

 

 

 

 

Cashmere by Harlette 1st Look

Posted in Fabric, Fashion, Fashion Design, Fashion Week, Film, France, Harlette, Hollywood, Luxury Lingerie, Luxury Underwear, Mens Underwear, Oscar Style Suite, Oscars, Paris, United Kingdom with tags on May 15, 2019 by harlette

Harlette are getting ready to celebrate 10 years. Can you believe that the launch of our 1st Catwalk in Paris was almost one decade ago.

What a better way to celebrate this, Harlette got inspiration on plane from London to Hollywood and decided to create something so luxury, so soft and something to keep the special one in your life warm when you cant be with them.

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Harlette released the 1st look of the new design in Cashmere this week via twitter

It is – a cashmere wrap with Cities that Harlette launched their catwalk

The 1st look has Paris and Hollywood for those of you that know the story and those of you that are just discovering the heritage of Harlette.

The very 1st catwalk was in Paris at Salon International de la Lingerie and only a few weeks later the collection was invited to showcase as part of an Oscar’s style lounge in Hollywood.

These are just 2 of the cities featured on this new piece by Harlette.

The piece is custom hand made and takes a couple of weeks to have it hand stitched with the cities.

The wait for this piece is exquisite and when you touch it for the first time its like nothing on this planet.

Its a dream come true, this new design just added to the collection.

 

 

The Politics of Panties

Posted in 10 Downing St, Couture Lingerie, Design, Diamonds, Harlette, House of Commons, London, Luxury Lingerie, Luxury Underwear, Platinum Lingerie, POLITICS, Underwear, United Kingdom, United States of America, Victoria Secrets with tags on March 7, 2019 by harlette

Recently in a supposedly very serious corporate setting on a call from the US to UK,  I was told by said offshore “male colleague” of a “consulting firm” on a “client site”

“Don’t Get Your Knickers in a Twist”

Of course for a second your shocked, you’re really wondering did I just hear that. Did that guy really use the words “Knickers” in a “Twist” in a corporate setting in 2019 in the UK?

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Have you not heard of the “Me Too” movement happening in your country? Have you not heard of a HR clause on acceptable business language? Do the words “Sexual Harassment” have a special exception clause with your name in big bold letters at the bottom of the corporations HR policy – every body but you “Stud” “Bud” “Man of 2019”

At the end of the day with all the fashion options of catsuits, bodysuits, onesies, how can an aging man in his late 50’s really be so confident that his younger female counterparts are even wear knickers these days. Bit presumptuous if you ask me?

Take a look a snap chat and one might discover that according to millennials underwear is optional and this might explain why lingerie companies around the world are seeing a decline in sales forecasts and stores.

With just so many options out there 

  • his facts on –

“Getting your Knickers in a Twist”

could be entirely wrong 

Just this week Victoria Secrets confirmed it was closing 50 stores world wide and last year in 2018 they closed 30 that a lot of “no knickers” being sold.

Of course there is office banter and getting away with it here an there, was it offside was inside was it on the line?

Yet for the purpose of Referee, blowing the whistle and calling the red card on the politics of panties like most ladies in corporate settings – there is a line – and its drawn when you start using terms that you would find pegged to washing line – one could use the other term such as “Below the Belt”.  – I have to say its flummoxing behaviour !!!

I am not sure how you would have responded or what witty retort you would have imagined after you hung up from that call

Should have gone something like actually

I am not wearing any 

I am catsuit kind of girl.

– maybe you could have been bold with this response

Actually let me take off my glasses

loosen my bun

reveal indeed I have my cape

and superwoman outfit just underneath

where is that London Red Telephone box when you need it

Seriously in 2019 what world do we live in when 50 plus aged men can still think they can “strut” their “stuff” with terms that show they have about the intelligence of a nano stem cell that comes from a rat that’s shocked into electrical pulse and inserted into the brain to show a semi form of a life existence.

What actually does it mean when a “Man” gets up the “gumption” to beat his chest and call out or play the Knicker Twist card as a battle cry in his conference call?

More importantly What part of the good manners for men 2019 is that Knicker Twist move in?

We saw the close of 2018 in British Parliament come to a climax with the “Stupid Women” moment muttered under or over or around the oppositions leaders lips depending on what news camera angle or tweet you were replaying from.

Reading the Sun newspaper this week its astonishing to read that owners of fashion company’s can enforce hugs, enforce that you sit on their lap, call you fat and naughty. When is it OK for women in the workplace to say your balding, your grumpy, how is that handle bar growth your cultivating on your face working out for you?

Is it making you money, is it getting you closer to your dreams or do you just enjoy being the centre lead of your own fantasy and bringing everyone misery?

Whoops did I just say that out aloud or am I dreaming I am in a conference call right now. The hours endured staring at the clock wondering when this you don’t really know what you’re talking about agony is going to end.

When will HR write into the contracts quotas to be achieved for more young hot abercrombie & fitch Male Models with their shirts off walking around the office and talking on skype conference calls

After all there is over 52% of the office now that are female, Just think how many people posed for photos in when the London store opened up – “hotness in jeans with ab’s and a tan” instead the reality is we have to put up with being refereed to as “hot messes” and getting our “knickers are in a twist”.

It appears there really is a new political landscape in panties and I think that we all need to come up to speed with what the millennials are doing, how they are going to change the industry for ever.

You just cant say “knickers in a twist” anymore!!

If people are not buying in store or online as they are not wearing any how does one sustain the lingerie industry in 2020 and beyond?

How accurate are your financial models and planning for a category that is rapidly shrinking in its traditional thought patterns how does AI predict these new lines and forms.

Sure we can look to Hollywood and Rockstars to save the industry – a few stella product placements and its a new revolution but is it?

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Millennials and their younger brothers and sisters spend more time on youtube than any other place, including time they spend face to face real time with their friends

Their hero’s are people that you and I don’t even know or have ever heard their names before and they are teaching them how to put make up on, how to dress, how to talk, where to go on holiday.

They are so connected that we are totally unplugged, unwired in the world they live in. most would never read a newspaper, watch sky news or see the last Karl Lagerfeld Chanel catwalk in Paris live.

While UK is just brexiting and texting and worrying about words and customs and chaos and profit millennials buying makeup countryless, borderless, created the newest Billionaire Kylie Jenner.

I just cant help but want to repeat the Clash

If I go there will be trouble
And if I stay it will be double
So come on and let me know

This indecision’s bugging me

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NANO NOVEL – Code of Conduct

Posted in CELEBRITY, Film, Harlette, Hollywood, London, Los Angeles, Mayfair, Movies, Oscars, Sydney, TV, United Kingdom, United States of America with tags on November 1, 2018 by harlette

Harlette will be launching their very 1st Nano Novel called Code of Conduct.

Advance copies have been sent and read already in Monaco, Los Angeles, London, Sydney & New York

Monaco –  8 out of 10

London – Thank you I had fun, its funny

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New York – What in God’s name is a Nano Novel

Los Angeles – Exciting

More soon on how you can get your own copy of Harlette’s first Nano Novel