What’s next for HommeMystere?

We’re gradually catching up with correspondence from the past couple of weeks while also despatching orders to new and current customers worldwide.

We’ve also ordered more stock to cope with the unprecedented demand and are working hard on new lines for the September International Lingerie Show in Las Vegas.

Our new briefs, the Dorothy and Scrunchy, have arrived in both Australia and United States with the United Kingdom to receive theirs early in the second week of May. ?Both the Dorothy and Scrunchy have been popular since listing on the site and we also have several samples with radio stations in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States so their feedback should be fun!

Our Newsletter is due to be sent out to subscribers early next week so if you want to hear more from us, then visit our home page and subscribe.

Want to keep up to date even more? ?Then follow HommeMystere Australia or HommeMystere US on Twitter.

FAQ from the media

We have certainly responded to plenty of questions from the media over the past couple of weeks, so here are just a few of them, along with our response-

Q: What made you decide to make lingerie for men?

A: Why not? Men’s underwear has been much the same for many years. ?The same styles, same patterns, same fabrics. ?We decided to step outside the square and manufacture briefs made with satins, lightweight microfibre blends and add a little lace and or accessories for fun!

Q: The bras, why a bra when there’s no reason for a guy to wear a bra?

A: Why does everything we wear necessarily have to have a function? ?Admittedly, bras were not something we initially planned on designing. ?However we received overwhelming correspondence from visitors and customers asking us to manufacture several new garments. ?So after looking around on the web, we discovered no one was designing anything suitable for guys that ticked all the boxes, so we went ahead and designed a few different styles. ?Feedback indicates our customers like the feel of the garment and they are a very popular item.

Q: Do you have a lot of gay customers?

A: We do not ask our customers about their personal lives prior to making a purchase. ?However, based on our early research, we believe that the majority of our customers are married. ?Our goal has always been to offer an alternative style of underwear for men, based on their physique rather than their sexuality.

Q: Your recent appearance at the International Lingerie Show appears to be a successful PR stunt. ?What will you do next?

A: Contrary to speculation, the ILS and runway show was not a stunt. ?In fact we exhibited at the Show in September 2012, and there was a great reaction at the time, but no major media attention. ?We also had guys on the runway in September and that was to showcase our collections to retail buyers. ?The same reason we exhibited in April 2013. ?And the same reason we will return to Las Vegas in September 2013.

Q: Where do you sell the most garments?

A: The United States is our largest market. ?We established a distribution network there early and followed up by placing stock in stores across several states. ?Our next largest markets are (equally) the UK, Canada and Australia. ?We also have a distributor in the UK that services our European market.

Q: What are your thoughts with regard to negative comments from the community and on social media?

A: We understand we are servicing a niche market and not everyone will understand our business model. ?It would not be uncommon for men to openly criticise our garments, then follow up by ordering something from our line and having it discreetly shipped to an alternative address.

Q: Do you think men’s lingerie will go mainstream?

A: I don’t think you will see HommeMystere in your local Macy’s, Debenhams or David Jones any time soon, but I believe we’re on the right path. ?We already stock a few lingerie stores in the US, so as men’s lingerie becomes more socially acceptable, we’re confident that trend will continue.

 

CNBC getting into the spirit of HommeMystere

CNBC are getting into men’s lingerie with a discussion on Squawk Box. ?And for the record guys, it does happen in New Jersey and we have a stockist there right now! ?We also think Joe was pretty enthusiastic about our lingerie.

View the video and decide for yourself here!

They also decided to have a pillow fight and post the photo.

View the pic right here

Joy Behar’s ‘Say Anything’ engages in a light hearted debate about lingerie for men

See the video here

The Courier Mail Brisbane decided to ‘road test’ our lingerie

Read about it here

 

Jimmy Kimmel on HommeMystere and other news

Looks like Jimmy Kimmel has taken to men’s lingerie. ?The Jimmy Kimmel Live Show in the United States has created an advertisement after hearing about HommeMystere.

Check out the spoof advert here!

I spoke with the Huffington Post this week too. ?It was meant to be an on camera interview, however the string joining the two cans broke somewhere between Brisbane and New York.

See the story here!

Conan O’Brien mentions lingerie for men in his monologue. ?We can only assume he heard about us. ?If you can sit through the ad at the beginning, it’s at the 4 minute mark. ?We can send you something clean AND sexy if you want Conan.

View and listen here!

What the media say about lingerie for men!

After four years selling lingerie to a broad cross section of guys around the world, HommeMystere has become an overnight sensation. ?Following our successful showing at the International Lingerie Show in Las Vegas, we’ve been stormed by the media around the world.

HommeMystere went worldwide after the first story appeared on VegasSeven and was republished by?Slate in the United States (shame about the pic used!), and was picked up by the Daily Mail in the UK and?The Sun, (they didn’t pick up the ‘polka dots’ are love hearts!).

Since then we’ve been on PerezHilton, Metro UK, 2DayFM Australia, Gothamist, BILD Germany, Cosmopolitan US, Marie Claire in Russia and too many more worldwide to mention.

The most interesting Media? ?Well, an impromptu?Skype?interview with a South Korean TV Show called the verandah Show (and still yet to air) was different. ?Aside from having had a few evening drinks and being totally unprepared, the conversation in broken drunken Korean/English was entertaining to say the least!

Another fun interview was with KiSS925Toronto in Canada. ?Their interviews with people on the street were funny, and I think the guy Mocha might be turning a little?!? ?Host Roz is already there by the sound of him. ?Maybe we should name a style after him. ?You can listen to the audio and make up your own mind!

In the video department, we’ve had mentions on Fox 5 TV Las Vegas, in an interview with Lynn Comella, ?We’ve also had a mention on RightThisMinute?and have a look at the chat on The Dish.

We’re aware of more media coverage still to come. ?We’re keeping an eye out for a mention on a celebrity TV show in the UK. ?Should be interesting..

Vegas Seven Magazine

How did men’s lingerie gain worldwide attention?? Well you can thank Lynn Comella and Vegas Seven Magazine for the initial article that led to all the attention.? Lynn watched the models on the catwalk at the International Lingerie Show and dropped into our booth for a chat.? From there it was picked up by other news agencies around the world with everyone wanting to know about lingerie for men.

Perhaps mainstream isn’t too far away after all.? We’ll add as much of the media information here that we can, though visitors may need to translate a few of the foreign ones for us!

Oh, and if you’ve seen anything in print about HommeMystere, let us know.? We’d like to see it so perhaps we could negotiate something…

Men’s Lingerie goes Viral!

Wow! ?After four years, HommeMystere Lingerie for men has become an overnight sensation worldwide!

There’s been so much written, reported, and said about us since the International Lingerie Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, we decided to start this blog. ?This will allow us to keep you up to date with what’s been happening and also provide us with an opportunity to respond to the huge number of?inquiries we’ve received since the Show.

So as soon as we catch up on all the orders, respond to the latest round of media requests, we’ll get back to you with the latest news, views, and info regarding HommeMystere Lingerie for men.