‘Made by Niki’ launches ‘Atomic’ SS12 Lingerie Collection 3 Months Early to …

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‘Nibiru’ Fringed Play Suit

The collections are hand-made entirely by three talented seamstresses, at Niki’s Leicestershire studio in the heart of the English countryside.

London, UK (PRWEB) November 15, 2011

While other luxury lingerie brands will deliver in February 2012, the first phase of Made by Niki’s SS12 bodywear collection is already available at the brand’s website and in Selfridges (London).

It is a continuation of the world-famous ‘String’ series which has already graced the pages of POP, Garage, Elle, Instyle and Wonderland magazine, with a voracious celebrity following including Naomi Campbell, KT Tunstall, Rihanna, Victoria Beckham, Paloma Faith and Daisy Lowe.

The stunning ‘Atomic’ collection, which is inspired by the secrets of the universe, includes beautiful burlesque clothing, lingerie and form-fitting statement bodywear pieces in graduated two-tone colouring.

An all-over fringed play suit in an ombre black and bronze colourway called ‘Nibiru’ has fully adjustable straps to ensure a perfect fit, while the matching harness cup less bra, fringed open knickers and thong suspends miraculously over a woman’s curves. These uniquely designed pieces are also available in a champagne ivory and biscuit colourway entitled ‘Supernova’, which swathes the body in a shimmering silvery illusion to enhance the body’s contours.

There is also a group of all-black ‘Infinity’ garments which includes a flapper dress which swings suggestively as the wearer moves, as well as a half-skirt (which can also be worn as a head-piece) and a lace-up ladies waist coat, alongside a striking cutaway lace bodysuit, boyshort, thong, bandeau bra and plunge bra featuring cutout shapes reminiscent of a lunar eclipse.

Undoubtedly the show-stopper of the collection is a set made entirely from glittering gunmetal ballchain and grosgrain straps entitled ‘Stellar’.

The collections are hand-made entirely by three talented seamstresses, at Niki’s Leicestershire studio in the heart of the English countryside. The campaign was shot by Andrew G Hobbs with Katia Elizarova, the up-and-coming model who has recently been signed as the face of Max Studio. Other stylists and photographers who have been quick to shoot the collection include Tamara Rothstein, Ruan Van Der Sande, Jean Marc Bulles and Stefan Rappo.

Made by Niki recently won victory at the UK Lingerie Awards.”We were thrilled and surprised to beat other more established companies ” said Niki. “Although we are a small, young and independent company of five people, the judges decided that Made by Niki’s products exhibited a greater style and design aesthetic than the competition [Spanx and Maidenform], and we are truly ecstatic to be recognised for our achievements”.

Made by Niki has been stocked in Selfridges for three consecutive collections and is available at over 100 stockists across 19 countries.

About Made by Niki

Made by Niki is Britain’s Luxury Lingerie Bodywear Brand, bringing you the world’s most covetable pieces, created by a team of underwear obsessives in the heart of the English countryside. Loved by real women, rock stars and supermodels the world over, Made by Niki creates impossibly gorgeous lingerie, helping you to unleash your inner beauty upon an unsuspecting world.

AWARDS

2011 UK Lingerie Awards (Winner)

2009 East Midlands Business Award (Winner)

2009 UK Fashion Export Award (Shortlisted)

TESTIMONIALS

“Made by Niki somehow manage to be both incredibly saucy and incredibly chic, which is a serious accomplishment.” Polly Vernon, The Guardian

“A fantastic lingerie brand…” Glass Magazine

“A sexy girl meets a classy lady who meets a cheeky hippie chick with a lil bit of a Retro girl thrown in. Made by Niki will get you laid!” A Little Nouveau / Style Bistro

“Decadence doesn’t get any better than this” Esquire Magazine

“Made by Niki has changed the concept of body-shaping underwear.” Marie Claire Online

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X Factor singer Faye Bray, who lost prison job for appearing in her lingerie …

Faye Bray, who lost her prison job after appearing on X Factor in saucy lingerie, last night admitted: “That pink basque cost me my job – a job I loved.”

But the former jail teacher – battered, bruised and defeated following a courtroom tussle with her employers over alleged unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination – has vowed to bounce back.

“I’d love to get into local politics,” said Faye, speaking at her Calf Heath home, near Wolverhampton. “I might even wear the basque when canvassing – it’s been a vote-winner before.”

The 30-year-old had taken Manchester College – which provides staff to the Prison Service – to an industrial tribunal after being sacked from her teaching role at Brinsford Young Offenders Institute.

The case spawned a raft of unwelcome headlines.

The Birmingham hearing was told of tattoos, websites featuring a whip-wielding Faye, see-through white trousers and her admiration for Katie Price. Throw in her sexy website and email address – barbieshagwell – and you had the stuff of tabloid newspaper dreams.

Flutter

Faye, in black suit and spectacles, sat impassively while the dirt was dished in a crowded courtroom.

Her case was eventually thrown out on Friday.

“I’m raw,” she admitted to the Sunday Mercury, the flutter gone from her famed long-lashes.

“I knew all the crap was coming, but it still gets to you.

‘‘I’ve got three young daughters. It’s been vile.

“What hurt was, for me, it took three days before the stuff that really mattered came out – what I was like as a teacher.

“I loved that job and had a 100 per cent pass rate in my subjects – life skills, politics and literacy. That seems to have been buried beneath all the other stuff.

“The boys in prison showed me nothing but respect, more respect than I’ve received from pupils at some state schools I’ve worked at.

“I’d like to think I made them better people.”

The former Butlin’s Redcoat scanned the lurid headlines scattered on a coffee table and sighed.

“You know what? It doesn’t matter because I know I’m a good mother, I know I’ve got the support of my husband (millionaire Richard Bray), who has been fantastic and I know my family’s proud of me.”

It had been a rough ride in the courtroom, she admitted, but Faye gave as good as she got on the stand.

She rounded on claims one inmate spotted a tattoo on her thigh through see-through trousers.

She told the hearing: “I never wore see-through trousers. I think all the ladies in the room will agree we like to wear white trousers in the summer.

“He must have been staring pretty hard to see my tattoo – besides the tattoo is on my bum, not my thigh.”

Faye took the first teetering steps to her career downfall when appearing on X Factor in 2009.

The real-life Barbie – the doll’s name is tattooed on her wrist, one of seven pieces of skin art adorning the six foot blonde’s body – became an overnight internet sensation.

“The basque was my idea,” she admitted, “and I still think it was a good idea. They actually wanted me to wear a bikini but that basque gained a life of its own.”

During that brief audition, Faye confided to judges she worked as a teacher in a prison.

Simon Cowell, eyebrows raised, commented: “I’ll bet you’re popular.”

She was suspended following the TV appearance but later returned to work.

But TV cameras later captured her singing at a Wolverhampton Wanderers v Birmingham game, further fanning the publicity flames, and prison chiefs were incensed by what they saw as Faye’s single-handed attempts to bring Cannock MP Aidan Burley to Brinsford for a visit.

The uneasy working partnership hit the rocks completely last December when Faye was permanently excluded from Brinsford.

“I’m impetuous, that’s my downfall,” she smiled. “But some of the things have been unfair.

‘‘The ‘barbieshagwell’ emails were just for a very close circle of friends, nothing to do with work. And I took images off the website when asked to.’’

Her smile broke into a giggle. “At the end of the day, I was never going to be Prisoner Cell Block H, was I?

“Mind you, I used to see myself in the mirror before work and think I looked like Margaret Thatcher.”

The case has done nothing to dim Faye’s popularity in her home-town of Hednesford, near Cannock, where she’s viewed as something of a national treasure: in every bar someone is either related to Faye, gone out with Faye or went to school with Faye.

“You know what hurts more than all this?” she confided. “Not being asked to switch on Cannock’s Christmas lights. I’d love that gig. And I’d like to appear in the panto.

“Richard thinks I’m mad, with all that’s gone on, to give it any head-space, but my roots are important to me.”

She appears at the town’s Prince of Wales Theatre tonight in a show staged to swell funds for Help the Heroes.

This week’s publicity has given the concert added importance and boosted ticket sales.

“The basque may even be back,” teased Faye, who has also carved out a lucrative career as a Katie Price lookalike.

Curves

Faye’s also taken charge of a beauty salon called Meridian, in Great Wyrley.

“It’s my kind of environment – I love it,’’ she said. “And there I haven’t got the monopoly on fake tans, fake lashes, tattoos and short skirts!

“In fact, I’m a walking advertisement for my products.”

“This is me,” she added, displaying curves that, she admits, have been given a helping hand.

“I’m like Marmite – you either love me or hate me, but I’m not going to compromise.

‘‘And I’ve never done anything I’m ashamed of.”

There’s a surprisingly shrewd brain beneath the teased and tousled hair.

“Don’t be fooled by the look – politics is my big thing. I watch Question Time not The Only Way Is Essex,” she said.

The mask slipped for a moment as Faye vowed: “I’ll get through this – I’ve got through worse.

“For better or worse, life is about creating memories and I’ve got plenty of those.

“I don’t know what my kids will say about me in 20 years, but I know they’ll never say, ‘God, mom was boring’.”

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