What do the subjects in the much-discussed mother-daughter lingerie photoshoot have to say about the still-swirling controversy that has made them instantly recognizable?
We reached out to Johanna Methusalemsdottir, the Brooklyn jewelry designer who posed with her 19-year-old daughter India Menuez for the stark, three-image series promoting the fall lingerie collection from The Lake and Stars. Here’s what she told us:
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Say what you will about The Lake and Stars, they sure know how to get people talking.
As we reported yesterday, the New York lingerie label’s most recent photoshoot, featuring a mother-daughter model duo, has sparked a growing controversy discussion about the appropriateness of the images, and the brand’s motives in using them.
Bloggers, journalists and hundreds of anonymous website commenters have weighed …
Most women learned about lingerie from their mothers. It’s one of the countless intimate threads that bind a mother and child together.
So it’s a bit baffling to see the “controversy” generated by these images from the fall campaign by The Lake and Stars, which feature a mother-and-daughter modeling duo.
I put “controversy” in quotes because I’m not sure whether the fuss around these …
Some people who go looking for The Lake and Stars‘ new retail space in New York’s Soho district will probably keep walking past the non-descript gray building, thinking: “Nah, THAT can’t be it!”
There are no sexy undies in the window, no flashy sign, no parade of young shoppers leaving with little pink bags. In fact, the first pop-up shop* for New York’s hippest …
Is The Lake and Stars finally getting a retail space in New York? Well, yes and no.
The much-admired lingerie brand will open a temporary pop-up shop in Tribeca this fall after being chosen to participate in the second “Building Fashion” project organized by the arts education group BOFFO.
The project matches up-and-coming fashion designers with cutting-edge architects, who are asked to design a …
