# Lingerie brands ride 11-year tailwind as Market Research Future maps steady growth to 2035

*Category forecast gives physical-product marketers permission to tell a brand story instead of chasing fads.*

By **Jenny Huang Goodman MPA MSc MHSA, Principal** — The Stash Edge, Hako Shikin LLC.
Published 2026-07-12.

Canonical: https://www.pops4.com/stash/articles/lingerie-market-2026-07-12t12-7
Subject: Lingerie market
Tags: category planning, brand storytelling, content strategy, lingerie, market forecasting, brand depth

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Market Research Future projects the lingerie category will grow steadily through 2035, per its recent forecast. The firm tracks global apparel categories and flags lingerie as one sector with sustained, multi-year demand momentum. For physical-product marketers, the signal is less about the category itself and more about the strategic permission a long runway affords: when you know the wave won't break, you can tell a deeper brand story instead of optimizing every quarter for viral spikes.

The forecast itself is straightforward. Lingerie demand is expected to expand incrementally over the next eleven years, driven by population growth, rising disposable income in emerging markets, and the category's inherent repeat-purchase behavior. Market Research Future does not break out sensational growth rates in the available summary, which is itself the insight—steady beats spectacular when you are building a physical brand with inventory risk and 90-day production cycles.

This creates a planning advantage. When a category is stable and long, a brand can invest in storytelling infrastructure that compounds: original editorial, community programs, brand partnerships that take six months to negotiate. The alternative—chasing TikTok trends in a category that might evaporate—forces brands into a perpetual launch posture, burning cash on paid acquisition with no brand equity left when the trend dies. Lingerie's projected durability means a marketer can write a three-year content calendar, develop a signature packaging experience, or fund a creator residency without worrying the category will collapse before the investment pays off.

The steal for a small physical-product brand in any stable category is to treat the forecast as a license to slow down your launch cadence and deepen your brand world. Instead of four shallow product drops a year, ship two hero products with narrative depth. Write the founder story as a serialized email series—twelve installments over twelve months, each ending with a single product offer tied to that chapter. Commission a photographer for a lookbook that lives on your site for two years, not two weeks. Build a Substack or a private podcast feed where you interview customers, suppliers, or adjacent brands. These moves cost time more than money, and they only work if you trust the category will still matter in 2027.

Concretely: a small lingerie brand with a **$15,000** annual content budget splits it across a quarterly print zine (**$2,000** per issue, 500 copies mailed to top customers), a monthly behind-the-scenes video series hosted on YouTube and embedded in email (**$500** per episode for a freelance editor), and a twice-yearly customer event in a rented studio (**$2,000** per event for space, refreshments, and a guest speaker). None of these assets are optimized for virality. All of them compound brand affinity, which matters more when you have a decade to build.

The broader pattern is that market stability is a green light for brand depth. If a forecast tells you the category will be here in 2035, your job is not to win this quarter but to own a position in the customer's mental map—so when they think lingerie, they think you first. That takes patience, consistency, and a willingness to invest in brand assets that mature slowly. The forecast gives you permission to do exactly that.

## The takeaway

Stable category forecasts let small brands invest in slow-burn storytelling instead of chasing quarterly viral spikes.

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## Publisher

**Hako Shikin LLC** — Virginia Beach, Virginia. Founded 1997. ASI 217876 · DUNS 18-204-6339.
Principal and author: **Jenny Huang Goodman MPA MSc MHSA**.

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