Sunday, April 09, 2006

Mintel report, key findings for underwear and hosiery markert

News - Lingerie Buyer, UK (April 2006)

Top Six retailers where consumers have brought underwear from in the last 12 months, November 2005. (Base: 2,039 adults aged 15+)



Mintel highlights one of the biggest changes since its last report in 2004 as being the polarisation in the sector led by Primark and New Look. Their growth has meant that the competition for the traditional players (department stores, M&S, BHS etc) has moved from just being the out-of-town value retailers (supermarkets and Matalan) to on the high street - right on thier doorstep.



Source NOP/Mintel.
*Underwear retailing report will be published at the end of the month by Mintel and priced at £995. It can be order over the phone 020 8606 6000. If you can wait then a copy will also be available in major libraries soon.

Underwear - Save your life (Video)



Amusing BMW Advertisement featuring falling underwearWatch video

Sunday, April 02, 2006

Delicious and sexy Catherine Kurtz's oil paintings

News - Art and Illustrators, May 2006.

Naughty but nice is the title of the artcile written about Catherine Kurtz's oil paintings. Delicous and sexy is excatly what they are here is Oh You Pretty Thing- 2005, Oil on board, 30 x 30.5 cm (inches: 11¾ x 12.)



Below is Rosebud- 2004, Oil on board, 30.5 x 30.5 cm (inches: 12 x 12.)

Ellen Bell - Fantasy Pants

I came across the artist Ellen Bell at the The Rebecca Hossack Gallery (RHG). Here these is a section on underwear but the little shoes are wonderful!



Fantasy Pants 2004
1995 USA Marilyn Monroe, yellow Thai tissue paper, elastic, paper and thread
33 x 31 x 7 cm
£550.00