Tuesday, 5 October 2010

We love ......Mr .peal

Dita von teese  eat your heart out love.....its all about Mr.Peal!


Mr Pearl is the most extreme and extraordinary tight-lacer I have come across. His corsets are masterpieces in both construction and design - he has created so many but each one is a work of art. One that stands out for me is a mauve design which he made for Christian Lacroix - it is so simple but the expertise lies in the perfect lines and how the corset faultlessly hourglasses the body
Nipped-in waists, book-balancing straight backs and pneumatic busts - the corset is back in fashion, celebrating and accentuating the female form. As part of the current backlash against millennial minimalism, designers are enlisting the help of this most fundamental and spectacular piece of womenswear. At the heart of the revival is Brighton-based South African corsetier to the couturiers, Mr Pearl, who has been creating fantastical dresses of his own as well as building tightlace corsets for Thierry Mugler, Chloe, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Christian Lacroix and Antonio Berardi, for over a decade.
It was Mr Pearl who laced Posh Spice into her wasp-waisted Vera Wang weding dress, created Mugler's more extreme and infamous metal biker corsets, and more recently tied Sophie Dahl into the ballet-shoe pink corset dress of Gaultier's spring/summer 2001 collection. But Mr Pearl is no ordinary fashion designer: for the last 11 years, this discreet, dedicated man has been literally living his work. As a result of eating, sleeping and working in a corset 24 hours a day (apart from in the bath), he has trained his waist to a staggeringly tiny 18 inches and modified the way he breathes and speaks.

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