Here’s something that’ll work as many miracles as Mouret without the bank-breaking price tag: Agent Provocateur has just launched it’s latest lingerie masterpiece, the Thora dress, designed to sculpt and support your curves at every level.

Inspired by Dior’s ‘New Look’ of the 1940s, the Thora dress is, quite possibly, the sexiest thing to have happened to shapewear since its very beginning, because though it may look like a form-fitting number fit for the boardroom, it is, in fact, a sculpting, shaping, all-in-one slip.

With curve-enhancing puppy-tooth panels in silk jacquard and corset-like structure across the front, it’s sleek and sophisticated – but turn around and your taste for something seriously sexy is met with sumptuous lace-up scarlet satin for the ultimate in striking style.

Perfect for playing dress up in the bedroom or wearing underneath your favourite dress for total tummy control – or, hey, for a night out on the tiles, if you’re that way inclined.

Now excuse us, we need to cool off.

Agent Provocateur Thora dress, £525, available at Agent Provocateur.