Prima Donna Spring Summer 2010!!

It's been a busy week at Plums with Nicola from Prima Donna coming to see us with the Spring/Summer Collections for Prima Donna and Marie Jo. It's always exciting to see the new pieces and Prima Donna has come up with a youthful new range called Twist. Really pretty with a good range of 30inch backs. Thank goodness. As usual it was complete chaos, I don't think Nicola is happier than when surrounded by piles of lingerie!

Nicola did bring us a lovely surprise in the form of Andres Sarda swimwear. It was absolutely stunning and I can definitely see myself sporting it while dangling my feet off the edge of a superyacht into the azure waters of the Caribbean!

Meanwhile Robby the virtual assistant has been attempting to herd my acquatainces together for an evenings entertainment. I would have called them friends but friends would have been ever so much more co-operative and not wasted Robby's precious time with sarcastic comments or by showing off their skills in the Chinese language (unsurprisingly limited). I don't think these people have the maturity to deal with staff! Miss Liptrot has been thankfully quiet on the matter, it could push Robby over the edge and he has been such a help I wouldn't want to lose him!

Lady Gaga & Katy Perry Both Wearing Marlies Dekkers

Well I knew it wouldn't be long before Lady GaGa would be seen sporting Marlies Dekkers. The talented singer songwriter has a real eye for dramatic fashion statements. She was spotted when visiting Toronto for the well known MuchMusic video Awards. During the day GaGa was spotted at several places - including her rehearsal for the show – looking fabulous wearing a classic marliesdekkers bra from the dame de paris collection!












Katy Perry is another marliesdekkers fan and was photographed for the cover of the American magazine ‘Complex’ wearing one of the marliesdekkers bras from the fallwinter 2 2004 collection ‘fontana’. Every issue the magazine puts a different ‘complex girl’ on the cover and this time it is Katy Perry who steals the look dressed up in the theme ‘leather-clad’. And one marliesdekkers design was not enough for this stylish lady; during the cover shoot she is also wearing a corset from the 2002 collection ‘silver’. She really blows away the camera in both designs!

Plums Lingerie is Going Green

At Plums Lingerie so many ladies who come to us, get fitted and find none of their bras at home are any good. As upsetting as it is to find that pretty pink lacy number is about as much use as two nipple tassels and a piece of extra stretch elastic there is a silver lining to that cloud!

Send in all your old unwanted bras to us and we’ll give to 10% off your next purchase! All the bras we collect will be going to Waster Saver at Oxfam. They take old bras and send them to lovely ladies in Africa. Any that aren’t up to the trip will get recycled! You can find out more at the Plums Lingerie website

Fergie looks spectacular wearing marlies|dekkers in the latest music video of The Black Eyed Peas!

05-06-2009

Fergie, the strong woman of worldwide known hip-hop crew B.E.P. chose marlies|dekkers as her main outfit for their latest single ‘I gotta feeling’!! She looks wonderful wearing a bra of the Triangle collection.
The Black Eyed Peas had their big breakthrough in 2003 with the catchy song ‘Where is the love’. After their fourth album Will.i.am and Fergie went on solo. Now the B.E.P blast back with their new album ‘The E.N.D’ (Energy Never Dies) which has just been released in The Netherlands…

The energetic B.E.P are touring all over the world this summer, so be prepared because with the B.E.P in town it will be buzzing all night!

As soon as I get the new collection in store I'll pop up a post!

social media malarkey

Here I am all on my lonesome in the boutique today so I thought I would constructively use my time working out how to put my blog, twitter and facebook together to work in perfect harmony. Unfortunately I still have no idea how to show my blogger updates on www.plumslingerie.com. I have managed to get twitter on there which is a small achievement.

There seems to be no end to the ways I can communicate to everyone out there. This doesn't even include the emails I send to Plums Lingerie's faithful followers who have visited the shop and my lovely exotic overseas customers. I seem to be constantly blogging, commenting, feeding back, emailing and texting. It such a welcome change when I actually get to speak to a customer face to face.

As for these communications the latest has been an email to everyone about the gorgeous Eternal Spirits corsets. Tricia has been speaking to the lovely Susi Henson, the creator of Eternal Spirits, about coming to visit our little boutique to help us launch them in Jersey. It's so exciting but difficult to choose which ones we want! I desperately want to have the fushia pink leather one with black tassels!

We haven't got a date set yet but as so as we do I'll post it as we are taking appointments for personal fittings and made to measure corsets!