The Ultimate Guide to the Best Lingerie Brands Right Now

Whether you’re seeking comfort or confidence, affordability or aesthetics, we’ve rounded up the very best lingerie brands to upgrade your undergarments.

The Ultimate Guide to the Best Lingerie Brands Right Now

While being cooped up inside for #StayHome and dealing with the anxieties and uncertainties that come with the coronavirus, sticking to your normal routine, getting in your daily workouts, and eating right can be difficult. To stay sane (and relaxed) during this time, you’ve most likely resorted to pajamas, sweatpants, or leggings instead of crisp shirtdresses, jeans, or your usual full office attire. But just because we’re spending time inside and leaning into loose-fitting loungewear doesn’t mean we can’t still feel confident while getting dressed for staying at home—and that starts with a great set of lingerie.

Here, Vogue breaks down the 20 best lingerie brands that will help you do just that. There are no rules against wearing your most romantic lace bralettes under a pair of sweats, and we could argue that most of these everyday, fit-focused lingerie brands would hold their own in terms of comfort when compared to even your most luxuriously soft PJs or sweatshirts. You can wear them alone or underneath your WFH wardrobe.

Perhaps you’re having a date night at home with your partner, or maybe you’re solo self-isolating and finally have the opportunity to roam free in your apartment—in nothing other than your bra and undies.

Minimalist lingerie startups and e-commerce sites have become the masters of fit and are challenging what lingerie should look and feel like in this day and age. And if you’re looking to shop small or sustainably (or both), there are brands for that too. We’ve rounded up the very best lingerie brands to upgrade your undergarment game, straight from the couch.

At last, you can achieve the ideal intimate drawer filled with bras, bralettes, and briefs that you’ll actually want to wear, and will make you feel your best too. Here, find Vogue’s ultimate guide to the best lingerie brands—and where and how to shop them.

Solid Foundation

Like the rest of Wolford’s high-quality and coveted foundation pieces (think: comfortable and performance-focused bodysuits, hosiery, slips, turtlenecks, and shapewear), their lingerie is no different. The brand’s offering of bras and panties aligns perfectly with their approach to everyday essentials.

Wolford pure cup bra

Wolford pure Brazilian bottoms

Designed to support, enhance, and empower, the Kit Undergarments want to make the process of getting dressed totally seamless. Founders Jamie Mizrahi and Simone Harouche developed a collection of undergarments and intimates based off of their 20-plus years of styling experience, designed to be your go-to when it comes to foundational undergarments.

The Kit Undergarments triangle soft bra

The Kit Undergarments seamless thong

Fit Comes First

Made with a minimal approach to form and function, Natori has something for everyone. The brand stocks everything from comfortable T-shirt bras to sophisticated pieces, offering both a full-size range and a variety of silhouettes for any occasion.

Natori minimal contour demi bra

Natori Bliss comfort 3-pack thongs

Cuup was founded on the basis that the majority of women wear the wrong bra size, largely thanks to old-school lingerie brands that confined women to a small and unrealistic range of fits. To counter this, Cuup has invested in designing bras that fit to perfection by challenging the former size scale, without compromising a flattering look or pleasing aesthetic. The brand offers five bra styles, four bottom silhouettes, and 40 inclusive sizes—balancing just the right amount of sensuality with everyday practicality.

Cuup the Scoop

Cuup the Balconette

Nonconformist Comfort

Known for their exceptionally comfortable, seamless lace and mesh designs, Cosabella will make you want to both live and sleep in their bralettes, soft-cup bras, and undies. A no-brainer choice if you want light support and all-day wearability, these light-as-a-feather lingerie pieces come with no distractions. Wave goodbye to pulling up unruly straps and constantly readjusting.

Cosabella dolce soft bra

Cosabella soiree confidence bralette

When a brand offers more than 80 sizes, you know they’re serious about putting comfort first. ThirdLove’s debut 24/7 bra is made from memory foam that actually molds itself around you—no matter your cup size—without having to conform to a certain shape. It has just under 41,000 reviews with an average rating of four and a half out of five stars. You do the math. According to ThirdLove, the best lingerie is the kind you never think about, and their range of undies and bottoms certainly live up to that promise.

Third Love 24/7 classic T-shirt bra

Thirdlove comfort stretch bikini

True Luxury

An unmatched level of craftsmanship and the finest materials make the house of Carine Gilson an haute couture lingerie label of its own. The most luxurious Lyon silks and Calais laces are meticulously and perfectly finished at the Belgium-based atelier.

Carine Gilson silk-satin and Chantilly lace soft-cup triangle bra

Carine Gilson silk-satin and Chantilly lace briefs

Celebrating the “art of the body,” French swimwear and lingerie label Eres designs uncomplicated and chic separates made from sumptuous lace and luxe silks. Eres presents their collections in a way that feels totally personal and customizable. Mix and match lace bralettes with a high-waist brief one day, a bikini the next—or have the ability to add on a more supportive style with your favorite bottoms. This is lingerie designed to suit any woman’s needs or preferences.

Eres Bourdon lace-trimmed silk underwired triangle bra

Eres Tresse lace-trimmed silk satin briefs

Romance Desired

Sophisticated but romantic at its root, the Italian heritage brand brings stunning silk and lace-adorned lingerie sets and separates to the market that feel ornately beautiful and elegant.

La Perla Layla stretch-tulle and Leavers lace soft-cup bra

La Perla Layla stretch-tulle and Leavers lace thong

Indulge in the romantic, empowering, and intricately designed lingerie and boudoir-inspired accessories from Agent Provocateur. For those who are ready to be equipped with corsets, garters, and balconette bras, or barely there tulle knickers with an element of vintage design, prepare to delight in these daring yet irresistible pieces.

Agent Provocateur Hinda balconette bra

Agent Provocateur Hinda thong

Sustainability First

A cute line composed of four undie styles in both essential colors as well as hues that pack more of a punch, Knickey’s certified-organic cotton undies are free of toxic chemicals and cost just $13 a pop. The brand wants to put both sustainability and women’s health first. They are bringing awareness to the harmful chemicals and toxins that are found in synthetic fabrics used by manufacturers in the industry. Plus, they’re big on recycling, from using post-consumer-waste packaging to accepting old, unwanted underwear that the brand will recycle for you so it doesn’t end up in landfills.

Knickey low-rise bikini

Knickey low-rise thong in bon bon

Based out of Copenhagen, Organic Basics offers eco-friendly bras, underwear, and essentials made from handpicked fabrics carefully selected with the environment in mind. The brand also stresses the lifetime durability of its products, so you can count on its pieces to not only be comfortable, but lasting. The products feature an array of natural, recycled, biodegradable, and renewable textiles and fabrics, all at an accessible price point. You can even take a virtual tour of the brand’s factories and get the facts on sustainability in the industry.

Organic Basics Tencel lite bralette

Organic Basics invisible cheeky '80s briefs four-pack

The Sweet Spot

The brand’s signature bralettes and boy shorts reflect Eberjey’s inclusive approach to lingerie, achieving the perfect balance of femininity and comfort. The line’s selection of dainty lace bras is mostly made up of soft bralettes, coming in the prettiest range of refined hues and neutrals that you’ll want to reach for day after day—with just the right touch of flirtation. The brand also offers comfy sleepwear too.

Eberjey Pima Goddess everyday v-bralette

Eberjey Pima Goddess everyday high-waisted brief

Add some vivid color to your underwear drawer by way of sustainably focused and consciously minded lingerie brand Araks. The label mixes laid-back cottons with unexpected colors for a twist on playfully sweet bralettes that comfortably enhance your natural shape but don’t cross the line into overly sexed-up intimates. If you’re looking for something that ticks the boxes for both everyday and special-occasion lingerie, look no further.

Araks Yanelis bralette in dove

Araks Mabel hipster in delphinium

A Bit Cheeky

This contemporary lingerie brand uses colors to create playful lingerie magic that will actually uplift your mood. From soothing or amusing, rebellious or cheerful, or for a more whimsical take on what it means to be sexy, consider a bra, brief, or bodysuit from this kaleidoscopic brand.

Dora Larsen Luna stretch-tulle underwired soft-cup bra

Dora Larsen Luna stretch-tulle briefs

Rihanna’s earth-shattering fashion show debut for Savage x Fenty was a total reinvention of what traditional intimates and lingerie presentations should look like. Both her line and runway shows celebrate fearlessness and inclusivity—and at an affordable price, no less. For something more cheeky, consider a cutout panty, a charmed thong, or even a delicate lace babydoll top from Savage—as the brand describes it, it’s “when dainty meets dayum!”

Savage x Fenty Puff Daisy unlined bra

Savage x Fenty Puff Daisy garter

New and Notable

LaSette is an exciting new lingerie line designed by New York–based Shiara Robinson. The brand officially launched in 2019, offering a collection of sweet pieces designed to be worn from day to night, or however you see fit. The luxe line includes sheer undies and slips, ruffled thongs, and strappy bralettes that are supposed to “skim the body rather than constrict.”

Lasette the Sette lace wireless bra

LaSette DeVeaux thong

Founded by model Amber Tolliver in 2019, Liberté lingerie offers a tight edit of four lace bras and six lace underwear silhouettes in three practical colorways, so you can mix and match the fits that are best for you. The line was designed for everyday wear, striking the balance between aesthetic, comfort, and support.

Liberté Bowery mesh plunge bra

Liberté Bowery mesh thong

For Every Body

At Skims, underwear and shapewear are rebranded as “solutionwear". Their offerings, made to stretch to twice their size, are meant to enhance curves. You’ll find their range of bras, undies, loungewear in muted neutral ribs, jerseys, velvets, and more in sizes up to 44DDD and 4X.

Skims cotton jersey underwire bra

Skims cotton jersey dipped thong

True & Co’s seamless and soft bra designs are based on a multi-question "fit quiz" taken by 9 million women. On their site, they give you the option to see models in both A-D cup and DD+ cups sizing. Not only is the brand known for their super supportive bras, but True & Co also supports a handful of organizations such as I Support the Girls and Keep a Breast, which helps supply bras and underwear to women in need, and promotes breast cancer awareness respectively.

True & Co. women's True Body Lift scoop adjustable strap bra

True & Co. women's all stretch high-rise hipster panty

This story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:Madeline Fass