marlies|dekkers magazine winter 2017 - the holidays issue

digital magazine winter 2017 the holidays issue

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Coming home for Xmas LET YOUR INNER LIGHT SHINE BRIGHT!

“Imagine how rich the world of tomorrow Confession: I am a total Xmas fanatic. I LIVE for the would look like,when we unlock holiday season. While my usual taste can best be described all that female potential.” as austere and intellectual, come Christmas, I’m into — Marlies Dekkers kitsch. Big time. Bring on the glitter, the glühwein and the sentimental songs!

And because I like to stretch my favorite

And so, while Zilver and I dance to our

time of the year, I start unpacking my huge

favorite tunes and sip made-from-scratch

collection of Xmas paraphernalia - a lot of

hot chocolate, we turn my house into

it designed by myself - at the beginning of

Santa’s Secret Village, just like my parents

November. I have my regular florist come

used to do. I’m hit by precious childhood

over with some fresh cut, divine-smelling

memories: the warmth, the lights, the way

greenery and enlist my daughter Zilver

my hardworking parents - usually so frugal

as Santa’s little helper. Let the decorating

- would go out of their way to make each

begin!

Xmas an unforgettable experience for us.

And I realize that I recreate these rituals

Absolutely crucial in all this, is the right

not merely to pass them on, but because

soundtrack. Growing up, we had one LP that

they make me feel like coming home, in the

we absolutely treasured: Silent Night. Since

most spiritual sense of the word.

then, I’ve built up an extended catalogue of Xmas tunes. From 2000 Miles to Jingle Bell

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Rock; anything goes. A few years ago, my iPod with all my Xmas-music on it stopped working! Complete panic! My then-husband had a full-time job restoring my collection (interesting detail: this was mid-October…).

M Y PERSONA L X M A S T U N ES TOP 3

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The Little Drummer Boy David Bowie and Bing Crosby

The perfect combination of the old (Bing Crosby, much appreciated by my parents) and the new (David Bowie, the wet dream of my youth). Because that’s what Xmas is all about: different generations coming together.

Parumpapumpum!

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Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Weihnachtsoratorium) performed by the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir

With this composition, Bach tells the story of the birth of Jesus in a moving and uplifting way. Play it and turn your living room into a stunning church.

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Silent Night performed by The Choir of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

If it ain’t broken… This is an absolute classic: perfect decorating-thetree/drinking-punch-with-your-family/kissing-your-lover-under-themistletoe music. Have yourself a very merry Xmas!

"I'm going to do exactly what I please, when I please�

- rita hayworth

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Peekaboo ~ black With her peekaboo hairstyle and femme fatale roles, Veronica Lake was Hollywood’s sultriest sex symbol.

Privately however, she was known as The Bitch, and proud of it! After purchasing an airplane for her husband, “It would be nice to have lips... lips to whisper lies... lips to kiss a man and make him suffer.”

— Veronica Lake in 'I married a witch'

André de Toth, she earned her pilot's license in 1946. (When leaving him later, she flew solo between Los Angeles and New York.) Edith Head’s extravagant wardrobe for ‘I married a Witch’ (1942)

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perfectly matched Lake’s bewitching beauty; using black lace and nude silk, Edith played a tantalizing game of wardrobe-peekaboo.

This season, put a spell on your lover with sheer fabrics and playful cutouts.

Dare to bedazzle!

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Come out and play! This sassy set evokes Veronica Lake’s come-hither loveliness.

Initiate a tantalizing game of peekaboo with a combination of sheer fabrics and playful cut-outs that is sure to bring Rizzoli HALSTON: Inventing American Fashion

out your bewitching beauty.

For some extra ‘va-va-voom’, I added polka dots, a flirty trim and sweet satin bows.

All in dark-magic black, of course!

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Dare to bewitch!

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The marlies|dekkers Advent Calendar

Celebrate a season of sexy secrets!

Do you remember as a child, excitedly ripping open the first door of your Advent Calendar to get to the scrumptious secret within? Well, I created something for you to regain that delicious excitement… and more!

Why so early? Well, of course I like to stretch my favorite period of the year as much as I can! But it goes deeper than that. Like the French philosopher Albert Camus used to say: ‘We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.’ To me, the build-up to Christmas is just as exciting and

Confession: I am a total Christmas fanatic.

meaningful, if not more, than Christmas

I LIVE for the holiday season: a beautiful

itself: an important opportunity to awaken

period to spoil myself and my loved ones, to

my senses and feel intensely grateful and

let my inner light shine bright. While my usual

alive.

taste can best be described as austere and intellectual, come the end of November, I’m all

Don’t you think it’s ironic that this period of

about glitter, glühwein and sentimental songs.

spiritual foreplay–traditionally called ‘Advent’,

Yes, you read that right: November! That’s

from the Latin word for ‘coming toward’-

how early I start unpacking my ridiculously

takes place during what is the busiest season

big collection of Xmas paraphernalia to turn

of the year for most women? Instead of

my house into Santa’s Secret Village.

pausing and reflecting, we get caught up in end-of-the-year deadlines, family obligations and endless shopping lists. How easy to lose yourself in all that stress!

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calender H A PPY HOLIDAYS

Do you remember as a child, excitedly ripping open the ďŹ rst door of your Advent Calendar to get to the scrumptious secret within? Well, I've created something to regain that delicious excitement for you! 12 days of lusty indulgence in the run-up to Christmas. Every day I'll have a different offer to bring you back to your sensual self and rediscover the reason for the season: love, lots of it, starting with self-love!

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Illustrations: Jose Luis Garcia Lechner | studio garcia

real life cluedo with a sexy twist Forget about stressful family gatherings and long, boring dinners; let me show you how to survive the (Christmas-) holidays in sexy style!

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a typical family

Cluedo is a board game, hugely popular

person. I love spending hours wrapping

during the seventies, where players try

gifts and cooking the most elaborate meals

to figure out the three main facts of a

for my loved ones. But even I sometimes

murder: the location of the murder, the

need a break from all that. I just feel like

murder weapon and the murderer himself.

shaking things up a bit! So this year, during

Or herself, of course!

the holiday season, I’m organizing my own

I’ve been planning a real life version of it,

Murder mystery night with a twist: real life

using my own house as the location, and

Cluedo. It’s retro, it’s fun, and, - if you do it

a selection of sexy singles as the players.

right - very sexy!

I’m so excited!

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“Some people need sequins, others don’t,” Edith Head liked to say.

Well, when she dressed Barbara Stanwyck for her role as burlesque stripper ‘Sugarpuss O’Shea’ (‘Ball of fire’, 1941), Edith showered the star in sparkles.

Chameleon-like

Stanwyck

was

a hugely successful actress; by “The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.”

— Barbara Stanwyck

1944 she had become the highestpaid woman in the United States.

With her outspoken preference for younger men, she was a cou-gar avant la lettre. “The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach,” she said about her lover, actor Robert Taylor.

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Twinkle, twinkle, Hollywood Star! Cause that’s what you are, when you wear this spectacular black-and-gold combination!

Row upon row of gold-coloured sequins were embroidered in a sunburst pattern to give this collection serious shimmer.

By adding Venetian lace and a gorgeous little satin bow I created lingerie that can infuse any wardrobe with some much-needed glitz.

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With her smoldering role in ‘The postman always rings twice’ (1946) Lana Turner became the leading lady of Film Noir... Dressed all in white!

For this version of my Leading Strings design, I was inspired by this platinum bombshell’s icy looks and cool sex appeal. But I also love Lana for her shameless appetite for men.

“I planned on having one husband and seven children, but it turned out the other way around,” she once declared. Not surprisingly, when Edith Head put Lana in a sheer, vampy night gown in ‘Who’s got the action’ (1962), it sparked a huge trend and many copies were made.

This season, lead the way as a femme fatale. Dare to be veracious!

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“I planned on having one husband and seven children, but it turned out the other way around.”

— Lana Turner

Leading Strings Ivory If looks could kill...

This season, smolder in the ivory version of my Leading Fratelli Orsini gloves

Strings design! Sensual straps adorn your cleavage and spice up your lower back, turning you

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into an ice cool femme fatale.

As I like to say: ‘Use diamonds

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to feel glamorous, use straps ‘n strings to get amorous.’

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the leading lady of your own film noir.

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Cathedral, while the sensual dusky plum hue and shower of painted-on silver sparkles are my ode to the grand dame of Hollywood glamour: Mae West.

With my Dame de Paris you can have it all: a sexy décolleté, a dash of comfort and a whole lot of ‘oh-lala’!

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Congratulations! You’ve booked yourself a

example, to give you the perfect amount of

winter getaway! Now, how to find the perfect

coverage in a stylish way. Or, in the case of

swimwear? Well, whether you’ll be packing

my Holi Vintage collection, classic stripes,

in the action or lounging with your lover, I’ve

laid out in a unique pattern to celebrate

got you covered, all year round! Quite literally

your female curves and timeless beauty. (To

actually, because I see designing the perfect

revamp this design classic, I added a pair

bikini or bathing suit as a wonderful 3D

of glamorous high-waisted bottoms and a

puzzle: what to cover up, what to reveal?

curve-hugging bathing suit).

Like in my lingerie, I play with lines and

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— Marlies Dekkers

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