London Fashion Weekend Competition

Have you always wished you could sit in the 'frow' alongside the likes of Anna Wintour and Alexa Chung but just couldn't blag the tickets? Well now is your chance! 

If You Please is working with live video streaming site Bambuser to voice your creativity and reward you for it. All you need to do is live stream your fashion tips, tell us what inspires your style or chat about the latest addition to your wardrobe. Whatever you like. Make sure you entitle your video #LFW11 and the team at Bambuser will choose the most inspiring entry as the winner. 

    First Prize: 2 Platinum Tickets

• Front row catwalk seats
• Chambord Royale cocktail on arrival, canapé reception and complimentary drinks
• Stylist sessions
• VIP Edition of the Show Bag

Second Prize: 2 Gold Tickets

• Two gold tickets to London Fashion Weekend
• Catwalk seats
• VIP Edition of the Show Bag

 

Click Here for Ts and Cs and to enter the competition.
 

If You Please & Sharlotte Ritchie

This week we headed west to Movida to launch our spring ranges in style with the fabulous Sharlotte Ritchie. The lovely Ruka from Sugarlesque and talented stylist Violetta came along to lend a hand and provide us with fascinators and ltd edition lingerie. The show featured some new pieces from our If You Please Vaudeville range, keep your eyes peeled for our pink demi cup bra, rhinestone pasties and ribbon tie knickers.

Our models looked stunning and were even more wild than usual. Check out the videos on the right side of our blog to see what happened...

Spring Ranges on the Catwalk

Our gorgeous IYP models are starting to cause a bit of a stir within the lingerie industry. Move over Pussycat Dolls, there's some new gals in town!! If you were lucky enough to catch them working the catwalk at Movida last week then you may be wondering what it was they were wearing, unless of course you were way too busy checking out their (ahem) dance moves.

Here's a run down of how you can get their look.

Sammie wears: Soyeuse by Rosy & Retro Seamed Stockings                Jana wears: Vaudeville by If You Please, 
                                                                                                                         fascinator by Sugarlesque.                                                                              

 

Sharlotte wears: Josephine Corselette by What Katie Did                    Anna wears Pericolo by Mimi Holliday, nude
Retro Seamed Stockings. Jewelry, stylists own.                                   seamed stockings by What Katie Did.

Eilise wears: Beetlejuice by Sugarlesque,                                            Lucy wears: The Black Vargas Dress

coming soon!                                                                                      by Kiss Me Deadly.

 

All styling was done by If You Please in association with Sugarlesque and talented London stylist Violetta. Photographs by Adam Streames.

2011 Student Showcase

If You Please has been busy visiting fashion and contour colleges in search of some of the UK's finest young designers to bring before the lingerie industry. This year, we will be flaunting the raw talent of twelve fabulous degree level students to fashion blogs, press and industry.  

Students who wish to participate should submit their work to info@ifyouplease.co.uk, along with an application form, in which they're required to answer a few simple questions about themselves and their work.

On the last Friday of each month, we'll select whom we believe is the strongest student and announce the winner in an industry and media press release. They'll also have their own designer profile written about them in our blog and be featured in our monthly newsletter, which currently goes out to over 500 of our customers.

You can download an application form here. Please email your work and a form to info@ifyouplease.co.uk. Good luck!

Student Showcase: January

I'm always eager to promote up and coming talent, so I thought what better way to do so than to showcase the work of one brilliant student each month.

Our January entry is London College of Fashion's, Contour Design student Jessica Preece.

Obsessed with lingerie since the age of 14, Jess (pictured wearing her own design) has experience working for the likes of fashion designer Hermione De Paula and Bunnies Forever and previously worked as a sales assistant in our Camden Lock boutique. Apart from being a joy to work with, she's also very talented and has recently come up with her own shapewear and products for a live swimwear competition set by Speedo (pictured in black) in which she was asked to re-design their obsolete LzrRacer olympic suit.

Jess is currently taking a year out to work as an intern at Agent Provocateur's London HQ. At the moment she's working in production and doing PA duties for new head honcho Sarah Shotton, but will shortly be moving on to design to put her talent into action. She also writes her own blog Ruby Slippers and Silky Knickers, about all things fashion and contour. You can read it by clicking the link.

Jess's Speedo Lzr Racer entry is pictured here on the right:

    

Pin Up Hair & Makeup with Kaizo and The Gloss Goss

We recently held our launch party at sparkly club Movida in Central London. Our troupe of gorgeous lingerie models sashayed down the illuminated catwalk in a selection of vintage inspired lingerie from If You Please, each sporting fabulous pin up hair-styles and make up. 

The hair was all thanks to a very talented bunch of stylists from Kaizo in Shoreditch, who took inspiration from images of 50’s and 60’s beauties Brigitte Bardot, Audrey Hepburn, Catherine Deneuve and Marylin Monroe. As well as doing a fantastic job of our styling, they also treated our launch party guests to special discount vouchers for treatments at their salon. Lucky people! If you were there and you still have yours then make sure you book yourself in before Christmas. Who wouldn’t want pin up hair at their Christmas party? Kaizo is at 67-68 Charlotte Road, London, EC2A 3PE. Click here to book.

  

Make up was courtesy of make up artist Talita, who also writes the glamorous cosmetics blog TheGlossGoss.com. She appeared as a model in our lingerie showcase and apart from looking absolutely gorgeous herself (she’s the one in the red with the amazingly long legs) she did a fantastic job of transforming our pretty ladies in to sizzling modern day pin-ups!

  

To achieve the look Talita used:

-Chanel Matt Lumiere Foundation

-Mac Eyeshadow for eyes and eyebrows, brule on the lid and vanilla on the brow

-Becca Duende Bronzer

-L’Oreal Voluminous Mascara and Ardell False Lashes (top lashes only)

- Mac Dolly mix blush

- Various red lipsticks, YSL Rouge Volupte no17, no16 & Lancome 130

For more of Tali’s make up tips and for up to date info on great new products and offers, follow her blog The Gloss Goss. We can’t get enough of it!

If You Please at Vintage Vogue

We packed up our troubles in our old kit bags and set off for Brentwood for a fun packed day of 40's 'Vintage Vogueing'.

The Essex Vintage Vogue Fair is the original and largest vintage and retro fashion fair in Britain. It holds a fabulous and very affordable array of clothing, shoes, jewelery and homeware and is visited by fans from all over the UK. Unlike your city thrift stores the goods on offer seem to be of high quality, they've obviously been carefully selected by people who really know their stuff. We met some really great people, both customers and enthusiasts, all of which were ridiculously stylish! It was nice to meet lovely people who take the style of previous decades seriously and don't mind dressing up for the occasion.  

 

We’ll definitely be getting involved again. The next event is on Sunday 5^th April. You can follow the link for more information. See you there!

www.essexvintagefashionfair.com/