Pamela Anderson has inked a deal with stocking designer Secrets in Lace to create, market and distribute her leg wear line, the Pamela Couture Collection of authentic nylon stockings.

“I am very pleased with the initial collection — I love every one of the styles because they cover every fashion occasion,” Anderson said.

The Pamela Couture Stocking Collection includes five stocking styles and is available to purchase at SecretsInLace.com. The line also is available for wholesale purchases.

CMG Worldwide celebrity agent Mark Roesler, who negotiated the licensing deal, said, “We worked with Secrets in Lace on the Pamela Couture Collection because they are the premier company in the stocking industry and have a history of making women feel sexy in their lingerie. This collaboration is the perfect match, as Pamela Anderson exudes sex appeal, and her stocking line is no exception. She knows how to play up her assets; and, this line exemplifies just that.”

Secrets in Lace President Daniel J. Whitsett told XBIZ that Anderson worked with the company’s design team on all aspects of the collection to include specific colors and stocking styles.

“She personally sketched the logo for us and we had our graphics team stylized it,” Whitsett said, noting that Anderson’s signature logo is printed on the top (welt) of each stocking style — a technique that was used in the 1960s and 1970s.

Secrets in Lace specializes in classic-style authentic nylon stockings and coordinating bra, garter-belt panty styles, as well as girdles and bullet bras, since 1984.

The Pamela Couture Stocking collection is Secrets in Lace’s newest exclusive collection — the company also offers the Dita Von Teese Collection and Bettie Page Collection of hosiery.

“The Secrets in Lace woman is fashion-forward and nostalgic,” Whitsett said. “We think Pamela is all that and more.”

Photo credit: Emma Dunlavey

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Although Coquette International has a reputation for creating luxurious lingerie, the company is also a large distributor of alternative fetish styles, known as its Darque Collection.
“We are taking a new direction with our Darque collection this year by releasing a catalog entirely dedicated to these styles,” Coquette Creative Director Cindy Cipriano said. “We usually feature our Darque styles as a supplement in our annual catalogs, but the response we have received for these particular styles warrant an entire book.”

This is the first time since 2009 that Coquette has released a Darque catalog, suggesting that alternative styles are on the rise, the company says.

“Right now you see a lot of extreme fashion seen with Lady Gaga and other celebrities wearing wet look pieces and lingerie as outerwear,” said Dave George, Coquette’s national sales manager. “Since this edgy look is so in style, the general public is looking to create their interpretations of this trend.”

This year’s Darque collection features 16 new seductive styles using classic PVC and wet look materials mixed with lace and satin ribbons to add a delicate mainstream appeal to the line.

“The greatest thing about this year’s Darque Collection is that the skirts and dresses can be worn out and even paired with a piece of your own clothing as a trendy statement,” George said.

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Sex toy giant California Exotic Novelties has added cool new products to its Inked line.

“People have really responded positively to our Inked products,” CalEx’s Al Bloom said. “We think it’s because the designs are spontaneous, playful, and even a bit rebellious — they’re our most punk rock product yet!”

Previously the line consisted of vibes with tattoo-inspired images silk-screened onto them. Similar colorful designs now adorn two glass toys that are individually hand blown — the Inked Glass Probe and Inked Glass Dual Probe — and a collection of intimate apparel, which consists of the Wraparound Teddy, Tie-Up Bikini and Tube Top and Boy Shorts.

I have to admit — the line’s initial offerings were not that inspiring to me. The tattoo art was a little reminiscent of douchebaggy Ed Hardy designs. However, the new stuff is of better quality and is more attractive. Particularly the Glass Dual Probe that features graduating bulbs on one end — perfect for someone experimenting with anal play.

Additionally I was pleasantly surprised with the quality and look of the Inked intimate apparel line. The Wraparound Teddy and Tube Top/Boy Shorts pieces were my top picks because of their design and perfect fit! (Compared to CalExotics’ Enchantress line of lingerie, which — as cute as they are — was a letdown because of its awkward sizes …) The tatt art on lingerie isn’t overkill, and the subtle designs are strategically placed — I like that!

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I work in the adult industry. That doesn’t mean I make porn. That doesn’t mean I’m a porn star, and it certainly doesn’t mean I’m obsessed with porn. The adult industry is like a big umbrella, and underneath are several areas of business, each very different and separate from each other:

• RETAIL — think the Gap, Target and little cute boutiques you find in quaint neighborhoods, but instead of selling clothes and overpriced nick-knacks, they sell vibrators, lingerie and DVDs.
• SEX TOYS — the design, production, marketing and development of vibrators, dildos, lingerie and any other product made for sexual or sensual use.
• PORN — porn stars, sets, camera men, studios, the whole 9 yards. It’s a significant part of the adult industry, but it’s not the ONLY part of the industry.
• THE INTERNET — this is a whole other world of adult that isn’t directly related to porn. There’s billing (the companies that enable you to buy stuff online), web marketing (the companies that make the flashy ads you see all over the gossip blogs you visit at work), graphic design and a slew of other businesses that make the adult industry exist on the Internet.
• MEDIA — that’s me.

I work for a publishing house that writes news articles, publishes features articles, and hosts conferences that help adult companies run their businesses. Porn fans not only aren’t interested in us, they likely don’t know we exist. We produce magazines of interest to the folks porn fans DO know: Hustler, BangBros, Playboy and the companies that have pornified all the wholesome television we grew up loving. Think “Seinfeld,” “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Brady Bunch” but with cumshots. (Yeah I don’t want to think about it, either.)

We also produce magazines for all the other business that fit under that adult umbrella. That means I work with retailers, product manufacturers, designers — all kinds of folks. And that DOESN’T mean I’m a nympho who spends 9-5 in front of a television or computer screen. I’ve never been much of a porn fan, and if anything this job has turned me off completely. Whatever it does for you does the opposite for me.

Dating me doesn’t mean you’ve finally found a chick willing to watch that shit with you. Yes you’ve found a girl who won’t freak out when she finds “Ass Fixation 7″ or “Cum Crusaders 14″ in your sock drawer — but please don’t suggest we stay in on Friday night to check out the newest “Harry Potter” parody. (That includes “Hairy Potter,” “Harry Pornher” and “Whorry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Balls.”) That is the LAST thing I want to do, and I promise a BJ-free weekend as a result.

Chances are Gap employees don’t fold their shirts when they go home; mailmen don’t spend their weekends organizing stamp collections; optometrists don’t always wear glasses. And did you ever notice that manicurists often have dirty, broken fingernails?

It’s a job, people, not a lifestyle.

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If I found out my mailman has secretly been hoarding my plastic-bag-encased magazines and boxes from SexToyDirect for the past 10 years, I dunno if I’d feel sympathetic (emphasis on the “pathetic”) or irate. That shit ain’t cheap.

Some postman in England was caught red-handed (probably from all the chafing) with an attic full of stolen items — including sex toys, porn and lingerie. He managed to avoid detection by opening selected packages, removing one or two items, and then carefully resealing what was left in each box before delivery.

This guy is probably going to jail. I hope he stole a soap-on-a-rope or two sometime during his decade of depravity, because Pinky and Jimbo aren’t going to be impressed when they learn why their mailman cellmate got locked up.

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After yet another embarrassing, “Here, let me get that for you,” night, I thought I’d share a tip that, for some reason, has taken far too long to register:

Chances are the night you decide to wear your granny panties is going to be the night you end up reaching third (or 12^th) base. There’s no way to plan for it — it might even be an official law, signed and dated by Murphy himself — and wearing ugly underwear almost guarantees its removal by someone other than yourself later that evening. It certainly doesn’t work as a preventative measure.

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