Money makers: a tailored lingerie service for the jet set

Realising that luxury-branded lingerie was often ill-fitting and uncomfortable, Claudia Lambeth, founder of Luna Mae, decided to do something about it.

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Claudia Lambeth: refining lingerie
(Image credit: 2017 David M. Benett)

High-end clientele fly in from all over to spend an average £4,000 per visit on bespoke bras and knickers at Luna Mae, says Kitty Knowles for Forbes. The most extravagant item in the upmarket London lingerie shop is a £6,000 cream corset. But even that pales in comparison with founder Claudia Lambeth's (pictured centre) upcoming debut swimwear line (one ornate swimming costume will set you back £50,000).

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Chris Carter spent three glorious years reading English literature on the beautiful Welsh coast at Aberystwyth University. Graduating in 2005, he left for the University of York to specialise in Renaissance literature for his MA, before returning to his native Twickenham, in southwest London. He joined a Richmond-based recruitment company, where he worked with several clients, including the Queen’s bank, Coutts, as well as the super luxury, Dorchester-owned Coworth Park country house hotel, near Ascot in Berkshire.

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