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Website lil Loves: InStyleBelly

LilSugar — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:00:51 -0700

You've spent years building a wardrobe that reflects your sense of style and complements your figure so when you find yourself pregnant, you want to maintain your prebump fashion status. What you don't want is to spend your hard-earned cash on clothes that will only fit you for a few months.

That's where InStyleBelly comes in. The online consignment shop features stylish designer maternity clothes at discount prices. Take a Diane von Furstenberg maternity wrap dress. A full-priced version of the dress is listed for $350 at A Pea in the Pod, while InStyleBelly has a gently used one for $90. For women looking for dresses for upcoming weddings, the site offers a decent selection of special-occasion pieces at prices that can't be beat for an item you will only wear once. And for those of you who invested in a few designer maternity duds throughout your nine-month journey, be sure to check out its consignor policies for selling your pieces - nothing like a little cash in your pocket during these crazy times.

Heidi Klum Skips Maternity Clothes to Maintain Her Style

LilSugar — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:00:55 -0700

Are maternity clothes just for the masses? While some celebrity moms are off designing their own lines of expectant frocks, others are quick to explain that they maintain their pre-pregnancy sense of style by forgoing paneled pants and tie-back shirts.

Heidi Klum, who is due with her fourth child this Fall, explained:

"My stylist tries to find things that are not maternity clothes, so I've been wearing a lot from The Row, by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. I love their clothes. Marc Jacobs too. You just buy things in a size 10 - when you're doing a show on fashion, you still have to bring it on."

Though we all might not have the genetic disposition to pull off the Project Runway host's tricks, there are several ways to stay in your regular wardrobe for as long as possible. Were you able to skip maternity clothes completely?

Kate Moss Designing Maternity Clothes

PopSugar — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:02:06 -0700

It sounds like Kate may just be ready to start a family with Pete - the rumor is she will design a maternity line for Topshop as part of her seven-figure deal. Now everyone will want to get pregnant. An insider said, "Kate has show interest in working on Topshop's maternity range - and maybe it's because it's a cause close to her heart. Kate likes the thought of adding some of her own ideas." Maybe Kate just has a lot of good ideas from being pregnant a few shorts years ago. If the rumor is true, let's just hope Pete gets sober for reals this time around in rehab.

More pics of Kate leaving her house with some help in her favorite boots so read more

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Maternity Looks Straight Off Project Runway

babysugar — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:00:28 -0700

Christian Siriano went where no former Project Runway star has been before - into the maternity wardrobe! His fiercely fresh collection is a welcome change to most expectant clothing racks. As the host of the fabulous hit show, Heidi Klum may have been inspired by the alum's pregnant perspective or perhaps her own belly bump for the show's second competition. Last week the designers had to create a look for one supermodel actress and then mother-to-be, Rebecca Romijn. Browse the amazing frocks the talent came up with in a matter of hours and tell me which one you like best. I'll tell you which one got top prize and which designer had to say "auf Wiedersehen." And tune into the show tonight! Photos courtesy of Lifetime

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Nicole Richie's Maternity Now Available at A Pea in the Pod!

LilSugar — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:05:25 -0700

Go bohemian chic with babe - Nicole Richie's maternity designs just hit the racks at A Pea in the Pod! The exclusive line, "Nicole," allows expectant mamas to mimic the celeb's signature style. Pregnant women will find 14 pieces designed by Richie, including a flowy peasant top, maxi dresses, and tees with asymetric hems and braiding (ranging from $50 to $150) that showcase a mama-to-be's cuves. Richie explained:

“You really feel like you have to change your whole wardrobe. And that’s the last thing a woman wants to go through. So I really tried to make this line to get women excited about wearing clothes.”

Already mother to Harlow, Richie is expecting her second child with partner Joel Madden later this Summer. She starred in the ad campaign for the apparel, which will only be available through the end of the year. Check out all the items!

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Fabulous Ladies Can Slip Into Fierce Mamas

babysugar — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:00:44 -0700

Christian Siriano produced a line of maternity clothes so fierce that I'm ready to get pregnant again just to wear them! OK, not really but I want to buy them for all of my pregolicious friends.

A mentor of the feisty fedora-wearing designer, the always-stylish Heidi Klum has been spotted wearing the Fierce Mama threads over her growing bump. Mommies looking for a sassy frock or a sporty blouse to dress their curvy ways will be delighted to know the prices on some of the most fabulous pieces are 80 percent off! Check out the styles and see what suits your fancy.

Nicole Richie Shows Off Her Pea in the Pod

PopSugar — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:00:26 -0700

Although she won't be able to wear the clothes much longer, Nicole Richie debuted her new maternity line at Pea in the Pod last night in LA. She is expecting her second child with Joel this Summer and has remained stylish throughout her pregnancy. Her popular bohemian style is now available in stores for a few months for women who love long, flowy dresses. Check out the line here and what inspired her to design it.

Topshop Brings Trendy Offerings to Mamas-to-Be

LilSugar — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:00:56 -0700

Hold onto your credit cards! Expectant fashionistas will want to charge, charge, charge Topshop's line of clothing designed especially for them.

Like most of the British retailer's offerings, the fashion-forward maternity designs are far from the babydoll and tie-back styles found at most stores. Think more in terms of below-the-belly ultra-skinny jeans, unstructured tunics, sweaters and a lot of embellishment in the form of studs, cording, and crochet. Many of the competitively priced pieces are simply modified versions of the store's best-selling nonmaternity items like their wide-striped shirt and floral dresses.

Interview With Liz Lange: Pregnancy Mogul Relaunches Line!

LilSugar — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:00:45 -0800

The woman who introduced the world to chic, form-fitting designs that celebrate the pregnant woman's bod is shaking things up again! Six years after introducing her maternity line to the masses through her collaboration with Target, Liz Lange is debuting more beautiful duds to flatter burgeoning bellies.

The Brown University grad and former Vogue editor, is relaunching her high-end line of maternity fashions after taking a year-long hiatus to reassess her business. The new Liz Lange Collection, which hits maternity shops and Nordstrom.com this week, includes dresses, silk blouses, skirts, pants, sweaters, jackets, and for the first time - denim!

The designer took some time to chat with us about her latest line, how to get the most bang for your buck with a maternity wardrobe and the ways she juggles work and motherhood.

lilsugar: Tell us about the new line. What are you most excited about?

Liz Lange: Even though I adore the collection that we do for Target, my roots and my beginnings are always in the high-end collection. That’s where I started it all and that’s where I got to work one-on-one with customers and with all of the celebrities I dressed over the years. We took two seasons off and so I'm just so excited to be relaunching in general. It’s really a continuation of everything we always did. We’ve always been about really, really wearable clothing even when we do trends, its always in a pretty and wearable way and not too out there. Really good quality stretch fabrics, clean silhouettes and classic American style, very uptown NYC, where I got my start.

To see the rest of Liz Lange's answer and her thoughts on the pregnant figure, read more.

One thing that is somewhat new about it is that I was never able to do denim in the collection before. It was always something that we would offer in our shops, we would just take in other brands, but I was never able to source it properly. So we found this phenomenal denim resource and now we are doing all Liz Lange branded denim and it comes in like every different wash – from the lightest to the darkest – all different silhouettes – the pencil, the boot, all of them – and it has our signature chunky gold hardware and all the rivets all the detail is Liz Lange branded and of course it is all super-stretchy. So I’m really excited about that.

I have a personal love of dresses and I think we’ve done a lot of really great dresses this Spring in all different ways. A lot of stretch silk dresses. We’ve done short dresses, little shifts, wear to work dresses, long, maxi-style dresses, short dresses with matching jackets that feel very 1960’s clean and classic - great to wear to work. I always think of our collection as dressing a pregnant woman in all of her needs. I find that so many pregnant woman today [are] working women, executives, and I think we have always been a great resource for that. We have a lot of great suiting, so its not just about great denim and t-shirts and little dresses, although we have all of that.

lilsugar: Women tend to complain about their figures during pregnancy, but you celebrate the expectant body with your designs?

Liz Lange: That’s just what I’ve always believed. I feel that pregnancy is a really, really beautiful time and I do think that the world has kind of come around to that - with the celebrities showing off their bodies on the red carpet all the time now. I started the line over ten years ago because I saw a friend wearing maternity clothing. I hadn’t been pregnant yet, and when she took off the maternity clothing and just put on one of her old sweater that was stretchy and still kind of working, I thought, my God, she looks so much tinier in that little sweater where I’m just seeing her belly than in that big schemata she walked in wearing. So I am a firm believer and that is why I have always used so many stretch fabrics because I don’t want to have to make things oversized, but I understand that a woman’s body is constantly growing, so stretch fabric allows it to be a little fitted and still grow with you.

lilsugar: Were you comfortable with your own body during your pregnancies?

Liz Lange: I certainly wore all of my own clothing. My children are 8 and 10. My first pregnancy was during the first year of my business. It was a very small business back then and I only had about eight designs on the line and then with my daughter two years later it had grown quite a bit. I would say it was with both pregnancies that really helped me define and grow my business. In the beginning I was very inspired by Donna Karan. [She] had her eight easy pieces, and I felt that my collection, when I first got started, would just be these eight easy pieces and it came in like navy, chocolate brown or charcoal gray and they were very, very fine Italian stretch wool and I did a cashmere twin set that was one of the eight pieces and it was literally that you just picked the color and if you had the eight pieces you could just mix and match and that would be your wardrobe. And that still, in a weird way, is the essence of my collection. But when I was pregnant I discovered, low and behold, eight pieces is not enough. 'Maybe today I don’t feel like wearing a pencil skirt, I want to wear a short A-line skirt.' Or 'Hey I feel like wearing a t-shirt and I didn’t have one on the line.' So I started to grow the line based on my personal needs. At that time I didn’t want there ever to be any prints or patterns and then I realized, 'Gee, I’m pregnant for nine months and sometimes I feel like wearing a print or a pattern.' So all of that stuff evolved during my pregnancy.

Check out what Liz Lange had to say about shopping for a maternity wardrobe in tough economic times and what to expect from her Target collection in tomorrow's post. View the fabulous selections from her new line below.

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Baby Bump: Jakfish Maternity Workout Wear

LilSugar — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:30:41 -0700

The benefits of prenatal exercise cannot be doubted. From a better night's sleep and shorter labors to jump-starting postpartum weight loss, exercise should be considered an essential part of an expectant mama's daily routine. However, as the body begins to outgrow your favorite gym clothes, it can be hard to find the perfect pieces to make that visit to the gym or yoga studio comfortable.

Stephanie Teleen, a Vermont-based exercise buff, saw the void in the maternity exercise gear market while pregnant with her two children. When she noticed that the active, athletic maternity-wear market had not grown between her two pregnancies, she got to work creating a line that didn't compromise performance, style or comfort based on its design. Earlier this year she launched Jakfish, maternity active wear that easily moves from the gym to grocery store and the school carpool line. Handmade, the pieces are long enough to cover a growing belly while still wicking moisture from the body and resisting wind during outdoor excursions. The pants feature crossover elastic, ensuring that they won't dig into the belly during a downward dog or a stay on the elliptical machine. They sound comfortable enough to keep wearing even after the baby arrives.