Just Babes Club Lingerie is the anti-Victoria’s Secret lingerie brand

April 9, 2016 by admin
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Just Babes Club is a Melbourne -based handmade lingerie brand
They want to challenge perceptions of what a lingerie model is
The company’s models are diverse in age, race, body type and gender
The brand want to ‘promote self love and self celebration’

Lauren Ingram For Daily Mail Australia

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01:42 EST, 8 April 2016

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04:44 EST, 8 April 2016

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There’s a new brand in town that’s trying to change people’s minds about what a lingerie model looks like.

Created by Jarrah Benwell-Clarke and based out of Melbourne, Just Babes Club is like an anti-Victoria’s Secret lingerie company.

Featuring unique pieces and models that are gorgeous and diverse, Just Babes Club makes underwear that is ‘a combination of influences from the past, uniquely for babes of today’. The lingerie itself is sexy and soft, with lots of lace.

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All babes, all the time: Just Babes Club is a new Melbourne-based lingerie brand that wants to change the public’s mind about what an underwear model looks like

More than one type of angel: The brand is the like anti-Victoria’s Secret, with a range of diverse models instead of perfectly proportioned ones

Casual cool: The lingerie is sexy and soft, and described as ‘a combination of influences from the past, uniquely for babes of today’

Making a difference: Just Babes Club is like an anti-Victoria’s Secret lingerie company. Pictured Victoria’s Secret Angel Alessandra Ambrosio walks the runway at the 2015 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show

The campaign images for the different ranges are grungy, with a vintage feel from being shot on film in many cases.

They also feature an incredible assortment of models, including ‘babes’ of different ages, races, body types and genders.

Bianca Cornale, the company’s brand manager, told Daily Mail Australia that they want to represent all people who wear lingerie, and not just the type of women who are seen in mainstream modelling.

‘As a brand we seek to represent all babes and have our audience see themselves reflected in the models that we shoot,’ she explained.

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Deliciously different: The campaign shots for the underwear feature diverse models with different ages, racial backgrounds, sizes and genders

‘We seek to represent all babes’/; The brand manager of Just Babes Club Bianca Cornale said that they want their customers to be represented in what they see in the advertising shots

Multi-skilled: The brand also uses a range of people to model for them, including many local creative women

They also use people who do incredible creative work locally as their models, and feature their stories on the Just Babes Club website.

For each lookbook shoot, the brand asks the models a series of questions and publishes their answers on their blog.

The questions are the same for each model, is conducted over email and asks things like ‘What are you obsessed with at the moment’, ‘Who are some of your favourite badass babes?’ and ‘What does sexy mean to you?’

Q and A: Just Babes Club also published profiles on their models where they ask them a series of questions

Tell me more: Some of the questions asked of the models and published on the Just Babes Club blog include include ‘what does sexy mean to you?’ and ‘who are some of your favourite badass babes?

Selection criteria: Just Babes Club pick their models based on uniqueness and creativity and have ‘an amazing pool of hotties to draw from’

Ms Cornale says that when selecting models, Just Babes Club are drawn to uniqueness and creativity.

‘We tend to pick models for their gorgeous personalities, talents and accomplishments, and for the most part they are friends or babes who are doing amazing work in the local creative scene,’ she explained. ‘We lucky enough to have an amazing pool of hotties to draw from.’

That ‘pool of hotties’ who model for the brand include artists Frances Cannon and Lizzi Morris, burlesque dancer Zelia Rose, graphic designer Anita Shao, filmmaker Olivia Fay and musicians Grace Anderson and Georgia Greenway.

Badass babes: She also said that they pick models based on their ‘gorgeous personalities, talents and accomplishments’

Custom: The brand also handmakes all their pieces, meaning they can make underwear for any and every size of person

Love youself: For the future the brand wants to focus on changing perceptions and promoting ‘self love and self celebration’

The brand is also different, Ms Cornale said, because all their underwear is made in Melbourne by hand and they offer custom alterations and fitting no no extra cost. ‘This means we can accommodate babes of all sizes,’ she explained.

Ultimately, Just Babes Club is a brand about self love. Ms Cornale explained that in the future, the company wants to continue to challenge the type of people who are seen as lingerie models.

‘Our plans for the future is to continue fostering inclusivity in our brand and hopefully change people’s perceptions of what constitutes lingerie models,’ she said. ‘And to help babes feel good about themselves and promote self love and self celebration.’