The New Secret Support Collection 2011

After launching the hugely successful Secret Support clothing range last October, Marks & Spencer is now set to introduce a broader range of Secret Support dresses to shape you through 2011.

Incorporating the Secret Support™ technology used in the popular shapewear lingerie, the dresses have targeted control areas to shape you where you need it most - flattening tummies, cinching in waists and lifting bottoms for a perfectly streamlined silhouette.

The 2010 Secret Support dress sold out within weeks so be sure to get your hands on something from the new collection before it’s too late!

View the range here: http://www.marksandspencer.com/Dresses-Womens/b/43091030

Marks and Spencer announces the final instalment of the unique collaboration with Anna Smit and The Royal College of Art

Marks and Spencer is proud to present the final RCA Limited Collection as designed by overall winner Anna Smit. Selected from 10 shortlisted students in September 2010, Anna Smit has been working with the M&S design team to create a capsule collection of stylish staples as a continuation of her winning designs.

Said: Anna Smit:  “This collection is a continuation of the previous collection I did for Marks & Spencer. I have looked at opposites in simple silhouettes, fluid shapes in contrast with rigid shapes and how to flow from one to the other. Fabrics have either been manipulated so that they themselves transform from soft to solid or appropriated to specific cuts allowing their structure to transform garment silhouettes.”

The capsule collection comprises of four tailored pieces including jersey ruched leg trousers £39.50, a tobacco fluid form top £35 and two dresses; a colour block dress £49.50 and a navy draped dress £45. The collection launches on www.marksandspencer.com and in the Marble Arch store on 8th September 2011.

Today is National Underwear Day. Celebrate it with M&S!

Join M&S, the UK’s biggest lingerie retailer, and celebrate all things underwear! Selling over 21 millions bras a year and 60 million pairs of knickers M&S are a knowledgeable underwear force!

The 5th of August 2011 is officially National Underwear Day-a day to really take a look at your underwear drawer and ask “Is my underwear really ‘working’ for me?”

Ask yourself “do I have the right shapewear for my figure and needs?”, “are those greying knickers ready for the bin?”, “Do I wear the right size bra?” women ask themselves these questions every day and what better way to get a grip on your undies than by celebrating NUD with M&S!

In anticipation of NUD M&S are appealing to all women to clear out their drawers and really think about their underwear purchases! On the 5th of August we want every woman from office worker to stay at home mums, to wear their best undies! Don’t save that beautiful silk set for those special occasions-wear them on the 5th with confidence.

Don’t get caught out thinking that just because other people can’t see your underwear, it doesn’t matter how it looks! NUD hopes to change this opinion with M&S’s help!

http://www.marksandspencer.com/Lingerie-Underwear-Womens/b/43233030

Marks & Spencer Celebrates Five Years of Post-Surgery Lingerie

This summer marks five years since Marks & Spencer became the first high street retailer to launch its own collection of feminine and pretty post-surgery lingerie.

The range was developed in response to a customer letter sent to Stuart Rose, the then CEO of M&S, which outlined the challenge of finding pretty, affordable lingerie suitable for wearing, post-surgery. Stuart Rose took action by challenging the M&S Lingerie Department to develop a range tailored to meet these needs, and so M&S launched its groundbreaking collection in the summer of 2006.

To celebrate this important anniversary, M&S has published a guide to Post-Surgery Bras, created in conjunction with Breakthrough Breast Cancer, on its website. The downloadable PDF offers suggestions as to which styles of bras may be most suitable for women after surgery, explains why the right bra is so important and highlights the different components of post-surgery bras. The guide can be downloaded from the ‘lingerie features’ area of www.marksandspencer.co.uk.

In addition to the guide, April saw the high street favourite raise further funds for Breakthrough Breast Cancer, as it launched its 2011 collection for Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. The range focuses on versatile, on-trend monochrome pieces and 30% of sales will be donated to the charity.

M&S is dedicated to supporting women affected by breast cancer, offering an extensive range of post-surgery lingerie, which is updated each season. The retailer raises over £2 million for Breakthrough Breast Cancer each year via donations on a wide range of products in October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, employee fundraising, Christmas card sales and a Change 4 Change scheme, which converts foreign and outdated currency into funds for Breakthrough.