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Portrait A Lingerie Line Named Blanche DuMois Designer Alisha Trimble presents a new line of lingerie, inspired by the work of Tennessee Williams. From the playwright’s symbolic use of the color white to his complex female characters, the “Blanche DuMois” line is a basic, yet comfortable and sensual line. A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute’s Interdisciplinary Art Program, Alisha Trimble is a fashion artist who lives and works in New York City. She articulates vanguard style using fit, proportion, layering and color. Her new lingerie line “Blanche DuMois”, is a collection she has created to pay tribute to the sensual female characters of Tennessee Williams’ plays. Transparent and opaque shades of nude, with black elastic details, and dresses in creams and whites, the costume lingerie used in Williams’ work has always helped define the personality of his protagonists and are now the basis for this ALISHA TRIMBLE ‘WILLIAMS’ CHARACTERS HAVE A RAW-NERVES SENSITIVITY THAT IS FRAGILE, DELICATE, AND NOT FOR THIS WORLD new lingerie line. “Williams’ characters have a raw-nerves sensitivity that is fragile, delicate, and not for this world,” says Alisha Trimble. “I wanted to capture that in the clothes, and for the women who wear them to really feel alive and beautiful.” It was mainly Elizabeth Taylor’s character in the movie BOOM! that carried Alisha Trimble away. She wore white in every scene, lived on a craggy island, among a white mist of waves crashing on the rocks cliffside that were just as dangerous as she was in her delicate white lace blouse. The white cotton pointelle group recalls that character. As the name of the line suggests, Blanche DuBois from the very famous Streetcar Named Desire is another inspirational character for the collection. “She is pure at heart but destroyed, she creates an innocence for herself in what she wears and how she conducts herself.” In the lingerie details, the designer has also managed to include details with

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