Q&A with Cora Harrington from the The Lingerie Addict

 

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Cora Harrington is the Founder and Editor in Chief of The Lingerie Addict, the world's largest lingerie blog. With millions of visitors per year, and a social media following over 300,000 strong, The Lingerie Addict is a destination for lingerie fans around the world. Cora Harrington has been featured as a lingerie expert on The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Teen Vogue, Racked, CNN and Forbes. Ms. Harrington currently resides in NYC with her husband and too many boxes of tea.

1. Tell us a bit about your journey to the lingerie addict.

I started my site on a lark in 2008. I didn't have any plans. It wasn't a serious thing. This is before there were brand pages on Facebook and still in the very, very early days of Twitter. So my site was just a hobby. I started by sharing pieces I found online that I thought were cool, and things grew very gradually from there. As I discovered more, I shared more. I began writing reviews, doing more research, attending tradeshows, and so on. After a few years, I decided to try and make my blog a full-time job, and that's what I've been doing ever since.

 

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2. You say lingerie is a way to express your personal identity and sense of self. I know what you mean and agree. Can you please explain it for readers who might not?

My feeling is that lingerie is intimate apparel, in that it is intimate for the wearer, not an observer. Lingerie allows you to be who you really are. No matter what you may have to wear on the outside, you can always choose undergarments that represent who you are inside.

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3. How does lingerie empower women?

First, lingerie isn't just for women. It's for anyone who wants to wear it. Second, the word "empower" gets used a lot today, to the point that I'm not even sure what most people mean when they say it. Lingerie can be empowering, I believe that empowerment can come from what I referenced earlier - expressing your true sense of self. But lingerie isn't innately empowering, no more than a pair of shoes or a handbag.

 

4. What is your favourite lingerie luxury?

If you're asking about my favorite item of lingerie, I love a good caftan, especially when it's made from silk. Drapey, soft, flowy...what is there to dislike?

If you're asking about my favorite luxury brand, currently that's Christine Lingerie. Unsurprisingly, they work in silk and always have beautiful prints every season.

 

5. Let’s talk about your book ´In Intimate Detail: How to Choose, Wear, and Love Lingerie’ what led you to write this book?

I was actually invited by my publisher, Ten Speed Press, to write it! I felt like I had something to say about intimate apparel which hadn't yet been put in book form. I wanted to share not just my perspective on intimates, but also the knowledge I'd accrued over more than a decade, so people could feel prepared to find the lingerie of their dreams.

6. What can readers hope to learn from ‘In Intimate Detail’?

In Intimate Detail is a very much a Lingerie 101 guide. You'll absolutely get something out of it even if you're already familiar with intimate apparel, but it's written with new people in mind. There are seven chapters: bras, underwear, shapewear, hosiery, loungewear, shopping, and care & storage as well as several appendices covering special bra fitting and underwear concerns and sample lingerie wardrobes. Finally, the book ends with two bra size conversion charts as well as a list of books for further reading. It really is everything I learned in a decade of writing about lingerie condensed into book format, and it's meant to have a little something for everyone within its pages.

 

7. You've said that this book has been a true labor of love, what does this mean?

It took an entire year of my life to write, and writing a book isn't easy! You don't write a book - especially a book about lingerie - for money or fame. You do it because you really love the topic and want to share it with other people.

 

8. Where can we buy ´In Intimate Detail´?

If you live in the US, you can buy it from most any bookstore, including Amazon. I also sell signed copies directly from my website. Outside the US, you'll want to check with local booksellers to see if they carry it.

 

Get in touch

https://www.facebook.com/TLAfans 

https://www.instagram.com/thelingerieaddict/ 

https://twitter.com/lingerie_addict 

https://www.thelingerieaddict.com/

 

Vanity Afro, 09/09/2020

 

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