Interviews

This week Underlines speaks to Caroline Randell of her eponymous store in Wimbledon Village, opened in 2009. Lingerie retailing was the life that you could say she was borne into…

Underlines speaks to Mary Whatley, owner of Hidden Agenda in Botley (a small village on outskirts of Southampton) which opened in April 2007. Previously working as Sales Director for a…

This Friday Underlines interviews Tessa Brand, owner of The Dressing Room (Bath). As she laughingly says, she kind of bought the shop by accident! The Dressing Room was first opened…

Underlines speaks to sisters Paula Farrington & Lisa Farrington-Martin, who opened Embrace Boutique in Worcester in 2013, initially to cater for women going through cancer treatment. The business has grown…

This week Underlines speaks with Sheila Wilson owner of Sugar & Spice on the Isle of Wight. Sheila led an interesting career in senior management in the NHS leaving but…

Underlines chats to Dawn Barber who founded UKTights.com in 2005 and today it is the world’s largest hosiery retailer. She also launched UKSwimwear.com in 2009 and by 2016 UKLingerie.com was…

This week Underlines speaks with Joanna van Blommestein in our latest Friday interviews. And although not born to the lingerie business, Joanna fell head over heels in love with the…

Emily Harbon opened up her lingerie shop, & She Knows, in 2012 in Bawtry (outside Doncaster) and admits that 2020 has brought challenges never experienced before…”if I knew then what…

Underlines speaks with Sarah Connelly, erstwhile owner of the Odyssey Boutique in Edinburgh and now operating under her own name with her Lingerie Fitting & Styling business, offering personal lingerie…

Underlines speaks to Jude Hough, who took over ownership of the independent shop, Linda Rose (Alcester), on 1st December 2019 and after just a few months of very successful trading…

Underlines talks with Carole Baguet, Lingerie Buyer at Voisins of Jersey which re-opened to the public on 12th May (some four weeks ago) to find out the ‘new normal’ of…

Rigby & Peller prepare for their UK re-opening on 15th June. The specialist intimate apparel retail group has 9 stores in the UK – 5 in London and others in…