Love Bomb 2013: Kiss Me Deadly

It's that time of the year again, and after last year's successful Love Bomb, we are doing it all again!

The Love Bomb is a celebration of independent lingerie and swimwear designers in the run up to Valentine's Day. Each of the brands taking part in the Love Bomb is run by a handful of people (and in some cases, even one!), standing up against the mega-corporations to bring you innovative, quirky and unique knickers!  

Unlike the big spenders we are in this game for the knickers – like you, we can’t get enough of them! Many a day is spent lusting after other brands’ lacy wonders and structured glories, so we thought what better way to encourage support for indie lingerie than to gather together for a big, sloppy Valentine’s love bomb!

Each day, one independent lingerie brand will be offering a giveaway or competition, while the other 7 brands will be shouting a lot about it! We even put together a sumptuous photoshoot for it, which will accompany the Love In!

 (Photography by Anna Swiczeniuk, Model Miss Miranda, Hats by Lily Lewis)

And we kick off the Love Bomb with Kiss Me Deadly!

 Hat by Lily Lewis, Bra and Brief by Playful Promises, Waspie by Velda Lauder, Suspender Belt by Kiss Me Deadly.

Kiss Me Deadly are offering a £300 voucher to one lucky winner drawn from a hat!

And you have a fair few ways to enter (each entry counts as one).

They would like to hear what your most loved Kiss Me Deadly piece is (you don’t have to own it!).

You can see all their current ones here, and their archive and some future styles here.

Link to one of the items and tag kissmedeadlylingerie on any of these:

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Make sure you comment here with your links!

Winner picked on the 14th February.

The Sexy Underground: Behind the scenes at our catwalk event

On the 16th Feb, just before London Fashion Week, we teamed up with swimwear brand Paolita and lingerie brands Kiss Me Deadly and Lucile, for a stunning catwalk show.

Held in the sumptuous carnivalesque Cirque du Soir, we showed off what it means to be an independent brand, showcasing some of our never-before-seen collections!

We just recieved some fantastic behind-the-scenes photos, we'd love to share with you.

Aurora Galore getting ready

Aurora Galore treating the audience to a sizzling burlesque act

Mam'zelle Maz in our upcoming AW12 collection

Models in our current swimwear collection

The gorgeous Vamp garterdress, coming in May!

The Love Bomb Has Landed: Exclusive Catwalk Event

With the Love Bomb coming to a close, we take any excuse to throw a party, and this time we have teamed up with Kiss Me Deadly, Paolita and Lucile for an exclusive catwalk show on the 16th Feb!

That's right, you can win tickets to this exclusive press-only event! All you have to do is reply to this blog post explaining why you are a Playful super-knicker-fan and deserve to come and party with us!

NEWS JUST IN! We now have a big handful of tickets to give away to our fans! Just leave us a comment with your name and email and let us know why you deserve a night out on the town ;)

Love Bomb: Kiss Me Deadly

 

Kiss Me Deadly briefs, Fraulein Kink and pasties from Playful Promises modelled by Tessa Kuragi. Photo by Anna Swiczeniuk, MUA by Cheyenne Raymond

Kiss Me Deadly is perhaps the one brand in the Love Bomb promotion that is most often linked with Playful Promises. And it’s no wonder, we share stands (and models) at tradeshows and some of our knickers have even featured in their lookbooks. In fact many of our sets match well or can be worn with Kiss Me Deadly pieces, such as girdles. Perhaps this is because we have a similar ethos and inspirations; however, our customers are usually quite different.

Founded by Catherine, the lady with many, MANY stockings and not enough matching lingerie with which to hold them up, Kiss Me Deadly has become known for its gorgeous 6 strap suspender belts. Also inspired by vintage lingerie, and the era of the classic femme fatale, the brand is often falsely compared to What Katie Did. Although both brands take inspiration from the 40s and 50s, WKD is on a mission to recreate authentic vintage styles, rather than Kiss Me Deadly’s homage to this glamorous era.

Perhaps the most recognisable thing about Kiss Me Deadly is Catherine herself; unique and extravagant, just how we like ‘em. She is known for her love of fancy leggings and underwear as outerwear ;) She makes her fans feel special not through freebies but by chatting freely on her facebook and blog about subjects that other brands might not wish to tackle!

Fifi Brief 

Green is definitely top of my list of colours, and unfortunately it just isn’t a colour you see often in lingerie! I love the retro look of the Fifi brief, plus you can rarely go wrong with a good high waist.

Vargas Longline Girdle

One of the classic Kiss Me Deadly items is her gorgeous Vargas girdle. A must-have for any Burlesque vixen, it not only looks sultry and seductive but it also shapes and flattens – hooray!

Kiss Me Deadly will be giving away a set of Fifi to a lucky winner picked from those that comment on facebook, twitter or their blog. Plus a £100 lingerie voucher will be winging it’s way to someone picked from the mailing list!

Ode to an eyelash

When Kiss Me Deadly posted this gorgeous photo of Jess in their Gio Peach Stockings and Van Doren Suspender belt, we noticed a few people lusting after our bra and brief that KMD borrowed for this shoot! The black lace and peach mesh makes a perfect match with their stockings and suspender belt, and has previous only been available in our London boutiques.

Until now.

Last week we shot our AW12 lookbook and, as I seem to have the knack of shooting very quickly, we decided to get some shots of eyelash on our model Hannah. 

Eyelash has a similar colour palette to Margot, fitting in perfectly with the rest of our SS12 collection (which will be available in January), which is inspired by Film Noir and vintage glamour. 

The eyelash brief is certainly a little bit naughty.... The light peach colour feigns innocence, while the sheer mesh behind begs for a closer look (however not revealing enough to put Jess off from posing in the middle of the street with a Pussy Wagon...).

Personally, I'm not a girly girl, but the Eyelash set has just enough quirkiness for me to fall in love with it. I'm definitely going to be combining it with a black suspender belt and black Cervin stockings!