Introducing the quiet ride of trashy lingerie.
world tour back in 1987, the superstar opened her show with “Open Your Heart” while wearing a fitted black bustier with golden tassels, which she enthusiastically twirled around. Custom-made for her by the Los Angeles store Trashy Lingerie, the iconic piece recently sold at auction for ain 2011. However, Madonna isn’t the only star who has worn Trashy’s sexy, one-of-a-kind designs.
Mitchell and Tracy Shrier opened Trashy Lingerie back in 1973, originally as a shoe floor. Mitchell started designing sexy, strappy stilettos, and by the late 1970s, his clientele began asking for hosiery to go with them. “When I was a little kid, we had a clothesline in our backyard, and it would be filled with nylon stockings in all these different colors blowing in the breeze,” says Randy Shrier, the couple’s son who runs the store now that his parents have retired.
Over the years, Trashy Lingerie has since dressed stars like Katy Perry, Stevie Nicks, Ariana Grande, and even Claudia Schiffer for her famous Right now, they employ six sewers in-house, as well as two hand-sewers, one dyer, and two full-time designers. They sell a mix of ready-to-wear and custom lingerie. Customers can come in, get fitted with one of their pre-existing patterns, then customize the fabrics and colors.