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Experiencing Lingerie
Up Close and Abroad
BY CURVE STAFF
Intimate apparel calls for intimate experiences and a handful of merchants
have taken these connections to new heights.
Brooklyn-based retailer Sugar Cookies
wanted it to be manageable for both
and Sol in Denver took their clients on
of us.”
once-in-a-lifetime experience trips to
Paris, while Yve’s Lingerie in Granite Bay,
Alvarado and Brooklyn Boudoir started
CA brings the experiences in-store.
working together in 2018 when she
realized the two businesses attracted
Sugar Cookies’ trip—72 hours in Paris,
many of the same customers. “We had
the lingerie capital of the world— took
a lot of clients that we kept referring to
place in March.
each other,” she says. Sugar Cookies is
appointment-based, very private and
Susanne Alvarado, founder of Sugar
focuses on providing a one-on-one
Cookies, teamed up with Stephanie
experience to every customer. “And that
Bordas of Brooklyn Boudoir, creator of
aligned perfectly with what Stephanie
modern, sexy and fun portraiture, to
does,” she adds.
create a trip of a lifetime. It included a
welcome cocktail party, a dinner cruise
Bordas started photographing in 2015
on the Seine, a private museum tour, an
after seeing a friend specializing in
evening at the Moulin Rouge and “endless
boudoir imagery. “Mine is female-centric,
co昀昀ee and champagne.”
modern and celebratory,” she says. “I’m
trying to spread the word that women
As part of the trip, attendees also received
have permission to have an afternoon
personal photos from two shoots: one at
of fun just for themselves, rather than a
the Ei昀昀el Tower — fully clothed — and
loved one.”
a second in luxe lingerie at a Parisian
apartment with a balcony overlooking
The two first hosted “Boudoir in the
the Tower. The women were also invited
City,” a weekend event in New York City
to visit some of Paris’s best-known
with private shopping appointments, a
lingerie brands. “We wanted something
burlesque dinner show and a boudoir
people couldn’t do alone,” Alvarado says.
photo shoot at the Wythe Hotel with the
New York City skyline as a backdrop.
The trip was limited to six guests, an
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intentionally small number. As Alvarado
“It was a great, fun, intimate event,”
explains: “We kept it small because we
Alvarado says. And it gave them the
