Barbara Palvin | Victoria’s Secret Designer Collection

Victoria's Secret has finally launched its own high-end designer collection to compete with more upscale designer brands like Agent Provocateur. Business is very strong generally not only in VS pricepoints but in true designer lingerie sector. 

The tagline on the Victoria's Secret website reads, "It's lingerie only Victoria's Secret could create," referencing perhap the company's decision to stop selling other high-end lingerie lines like Chantelle Thomas -- which I brought to VS years ago -- in favor of creating its own. At that time we were selling B1G1 bras, so a high end name was important.

The pieces, which range in price from $38 for thongs to $298 for corsets, are now available online and in select stores, including two NYC locations.  VS describes the Design Collection as "exquisite & delicate", "spirited & sensual", and "timeless and glamorous".

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Kelly Mittendorf & Patricia van der Vliet | Steven Pan | Interview Russia February 2012

Kelly Mittendorf & Patricia van der Vliet work it big time in Steven Pan's editorial for the debut issue of Interview Russia. Karen Kaiser styles the sizzling duo in short skirts, hot pants -- just short, skinny and scalding.

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Heide Lindgren & Klara Wester | Hunter & Gatti | Guess by Marciano Spring 2012

Guess by Marciano Spring 2012 take a major swing into a bold, color-drenched, modern poolside presentation lensed by Hunter & Gatti. Models Heide Lindgren and Klara Wester are long, lean sun goddesses styled by Martina Nilsson. / Hair by Paco Garrigues, Makeup by Francesca Tolot

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Eye | Dominique Young Unique's 'She's Unique' | Yo! Majesty's 'Don't Let Go'

Dominique Young Unique 'She's Unique'

Photo by Melissa Boucher.The Last Magazine profiles Dominique Young Unique, the "19-year-old Tampa rapper, who began gaining acclaim in both hip hop and indie circles following the release of her 'Domination' mixtape last year."

Unique grew up in Tampa’s notorious Robles Park projects and, along with her family, faced a spell of poverty and homelessness at an age at which most American teenagers’ biggest concern is SAT prep. But those experiences, enough to embitter someone much older, have had a different impact on Unique: they’ve made her more determined to make something out of herself. So much so that her enthusiasm is endearingly childlike, her confidence infectious, and her optimism refreshing. “I’m doing this for my family. I’m grinding hard because I wanna move my momma into a real big house. And one day, I’m gonna be on MTV Cribs like, ‘I did it guys!’” says Unique.

Shunda K of queer-Christian electro-rap group Yo! Majesty—"likely the only other Tampa-based hip hop act anyone outside of the Sunshine State has ever heard of"— brought Dominique to the attention of producer David Alexander. who has since steered her career rather effectively.

“If I never met David, I promise you, I don’t know where I’d be right now. I’d probably be pregnant or something,” says Unique of the man who has guided her career ever since.

Yo! Majesty | Don't Let Go (2009)

Jessica Miller | Michelangelo di Battista | Blugirl Spring 2012

Jessica Stam is a young woman's nature goddess in the spring 2012 campaign from Blugirl, shot by Michelangelo di Battista. Wearing the label’s colorful prints and loose-fitting silhouettes, Jessica's ankle bracelet makes her a bankable fashion captive. /Hair by Nicolas Jurnjack; makeup by Francesca Tolot

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Bo Don | Alexander Sainsbury | Exit Winter 2011 | 'Metal Heart'

 Tracey Nicholson styles Bo Don as a tied-up tough girl renegade with a 'Metal Heart', lensed by Alexander Sainsbury for Exit Magazine Winter 2011.

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Christina Ricci | Gregory Harris | Oyster #97 | 'Nouveau Richie'

Actress Christina Ricci enjoys her inner wild child on the back of a motorcycle, lensed by Gregory Harris for Australia's Oyster Magazine latest issue. Ladylike looks from Burberry Prorsum, Jil Sander, Proenza Schouler and friends find their fashion verve, styled by Stevie Dance.

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