(20/Jan/2012)
Demask's legendary ''Europerve'' party is back on May 19th in Amsterdam. Fetish supermodel Ancilla Tilia announced the party and unveiled the official poster/flyer on January 28th in Amsterdam together with Demask co-owner Louva.
(26/Jan/2012)
A new fetish party has just been announced for Bremen, Germany on June 30th, 2012.
It is called ''Taste of Taboo'' and promised a nice event in a great location, a former power generator house and energy distribution center in the harbour of Bremen, now containing three clubs and event centers: The BLG Forum, Energieleitzentrale and Club Underdock.
Stage perfomances, live music, DJs, playrooms and much more will add to a great evening of fetish fun. More details will be announced soon.
(13/Jan/2012)
This year's German Fetish Ball has just been announced and it is moving back to Berlin! After an experimental change in both date and city, the event moves back to it's origins, the pentecost weekend in Berlin.
The German Fetish Ball started in Berlin in 2004 where it remained for six years before moving to Hamburg in 2010.
(7/Jan/2012)
On February 4th, the 'Obsession' party is back at the 'Edelfettwerk' in Hamburg, Germany, the location that has become the main hub for latex enthusiasts in Germany.
This time the event will have a 'Sin City" theme with appropriate decorations, ballerinas, poldedancers and everything yoo would expect from Sin City. So think 'sin', pack your best latex outfits and dress on up!
(22/Dec/2011)
For over a decade Demask was well known for its extravagant and latex filled stage shows at their own legendary Europerve in Amsterdam and many other fetish parties across Europe. However in recent years those pervy rubbery stage shows were missing from the party scene.
Now with the new owners Anton and Louva, Demask is picking up the pace again and have recently done their first new stage show at the Wasteland party in Amsterdam. With both well known fetish models and pervy dominatrixes and slaves, the pervy range of Demasks outfits was thrown into a true latex orgy on stage for an enthusiastic audience.
Looking forward to more cool shows from Demask soon. Rumours have it that even the legendary Europerve itself might make a return soon...
(15/Dec/2011)
The seventh annual issue of the Fetish Map London is out now, again providing a comprehensive overview of everything that might be of interest to fetish enthusiasts in the city of London, including shops, venues, services and other kinky stuff.
If you are going to London any time soon, make sure to get your copy so you don't miss some of the very highlights.
(3/Aug/2011)
After more than twenty years, Demask founder Steve English has sold the company including the Demask shops, production facilities and website to his long time right hand man Anton Koot and his wife, the fetish model Louva.
Anton has been effectively running Demask for a number of years, so he knows the territory and the change in power might bring some fresh wind into one of the oldest and largest latex makers in the world.
We wish them the best of luck and are looking forward to working with them.
(7/Jun/2011 - Updated 30/Jun/2011)
From June 1 - June 5, the famous German Fetish Ball opened it's doors again in Hamburg. The main event was held on Saturday evening at the "Edelfettwerk". Photos from the fair and the ball are here now.
(11/Apr/2011)
As reported here before, at the Leipzig book fair in March, a new book featuring Norman Richter's photographs of Susan Wayland was premiered and is now available.
Sway, as she is known for short, has worked together with her photographer boyfriend Norman and publishing house Horgen Books to produce a 192 page photobook featuring 230 photos from a total of 15 different shootings, most of them in latex.
The book looks and feels very classy, with very high quality print and it has only very little text, leaving lots of room for the high gloss photos of the living work of art that is Sway. The photos present a fantastic fetish dream girl wearing lots of different shiny latex outfits in several exotic locations. A must have for every Sway fan and anybody else who is into living high gloss latex dolls.
The hardcover book is priced at € 39,90 and can be ordered at Horgen Books.
(15/Feb/2011)
Famous fashion designer Marc Jacobs teamed up with London's latex label 'House of Harlot' to include several latex designs in his new collection presented at a fashion show in New York this week.
"I wanted something strict and severe" Marc Jacobs said of his new collection, a counterpoint to the loose and fluid designs of his last collection.
Polka dots and latex seem to be the most significant fashion statements of Jacobs' newest outing, so let's see how this translates into everyday fashion...
(15/Feb/2011)
Beautiful Gemma Chan plays 'Charlotte' the nemesis of Belle, the main character on ITV's 'Secret Diary of a Call Girl" in the fourth season that is just airing in the UK.
She wears different latex outfits throughout the show and looks stunning in all of them. Very nice!
(20/Jan/2011)
Rasmus is a fetish blogger (3xL), and a latex fetishist, and he has a rubber loving girlfriend. Seems like he is living the dream of so many latex fetishists, so what can he do for the scene?
He wrote a book, explaining it all. So if you ever wanted to know what latex items to get, how to take care of them, how to find likeminded people or even that special someone and much more, you might want to get his new book "Rubber Life", which was released on Jan.20th.
(18/Nov/2010)
After a significant shakeup in personnel and a downturn in sales, about two years ago it was announced that the legendary fetish magazine ''Skin Two'' would cease publication as a quarterly magazine and become an annual fetish yearbook instead. Things went very quiet from there on. One yearbook was published in 2009, but it was rather disappointing, lacking the style and gloss the magazine had established in the fetish scene. Together with the end of the legendary annual Skin Two Rubber Ball in London, things didn't look good for the fetish legend.
But now Skin Two is back: The new magazine (#61) has just been released in both print and digital download form. It features reports about celebrities in latex (Katy Perry is on the cover), latex fashions from Atsuko Kudo and lots of other reports about fetish fashions, people, artists and events - all that you would expect from a glossy fetish magazine.
(12/Aug/2010)
A new movie is out on DVD in Japan, called "Rubbers". It is the story of a young woman with a latex fetish and her problems with men who do not understand her fetish and have problems dealing with it.
The DVD comes in Japanese with no subtitles, so I did not understand a word but still liked the movie. I am hoping that they will put out a subtitled version on DVD at some point.
(6/Feb/2010)
Are you using the new Firefox 3.6? If so, you may have learned about the new "Personas" available for that browser, which are in fact some sort of skins to put on your browser window. A large number of ''Personas'' are already available and I have created one too, with a latex theme of course.
(3/Feb/2009 - written by Tim Hayes)
Amber Moelter still loves latex. Her turn in a catsuit for the short film Catwoman: Resolution caught the attention of fetish fans in 2007, and her new YouTube mash-up of Katy Perry's I Kissed A Girl proves that she still gets a kick out of wearing a sexy latex outfit. "I could live in this red dress all day." she laughs.
The YouTube clip mixes the song with glimpses of Amber's new film, Dirty Step Upstage, and of the character known for now just as Girl In The Red Dress. "The red latex dress was a happy accident," she says. "I searched for the perfect red dress to suit the film, but nothing was right. Then I remembered Laura at Vex Clothing in Chicago, who I worked with on Catwoman: Resolution, and it all came together. The dress is seriously sexy. Wearing it makes me feel powerful...and slightly evil."
Some evil thoughts may have occurred to late-night partygoers in London's Soho, where the scenes were filmed. "By the time we got on set I forgot that the crew members and extras hadn't already seen it. It wasn't until I was walking around on the seediest streets of Soho in it at midnight after the shoot that I remembered the power of a latex dress. The guys checking me out were probably wondering which club I worked in."
For Amber, the reactions the dress gets from other people is key to its appeal. "When I'm that character in front of the cameras I feel an amazing empowerment," she says. "In between shots I actually forget I'm wearing it, but when someone new sees it I'm reminded of its subversiveness. The reaction that the dress garners is part of what makes it a turn on to wear."
The last time Amber caused a stir in latex, it was thanks to the spectacular purple and black catsuit created by Vex for Catwoman: Resolution. "As soon as I put on a latex catsuit I fell in love. In the latex I just felt so agile and sexy. The outfit in Resolution felt really revealing, even though there was actually a little black body-suit over the purple one so I was really wearing more layers than a straight catsuit. With the garters drawing attention to my upper thighs and my butt sticking out, it's much more of a dominatrix style." More Catwoman projects are planned, and if Amber gets her way they'll feature an even more dramatic version of the iconic catsuit.
"Latex is like the sexiest woman you know," she jokes. "No matter the situation, you can't take your eyes off her. You cannot help but slip away to the dark parts of your mind and think about what you could do with her."
(24/Aug/2011)
Selene, the beautiful vampire in a shiny black catsuit is back in 2012, played again by Kate Beckinsale. The new movie "Underworld: Awakening" is coming out in January in 3D.
(17/Mar/2011)
Okay, it has been a while and so far there were only clips with single shows, but now finally here is the video report of the German Fetish Ball 2010, featuring Ancilla Tilia and fashion shows by HW Design, HMS Latex, Naucler Design and Rubaddiction, plus an introduction by Baroness Bijou.
Because I had to limit the length of the video, I left out some shows, that were not so much about latex, including those of Velda Lauder, Engineers of Desire and Cyberesque, as well as a rope bondage performance. Sorry about that.
This videoclip has also been edited for content to meet the requirements of YouTube (no nudity). [WATCH ON YOUTUBE]
The version on Vimeo and is about seven minutes longer than the YouTube version: [WATCH ON VIMEO]
(8/Dec/2009)
She is already well known for her extreme outfits that often include fetish items, but now pop singer Lady Gaga met a woman even more known for her unique fashion style, Queen Elisabeth II yesterday at a charity event, and the Gaga girl from New York dressed up for the occasion in a very dramatic red latex dress with ruffles and everything. An interesting compromise between provocative style and classic look.
I just hope she didn't have sweat dripping out of her sleeves when she shook the Queen's hand. ;-)
(16/Nov/2009)
As reported here, on August 2nd, 2009, my friend, the 29 year old fetish model, -performer and dominatix Veronica Hoffman died from suicide caused by depression.
Now her closest friends, including her partner Joseph Bishara and The Fetishistas' Tony Mitchell are establishing the "Veronica Hoffman Foundation" in her memory with the aim to help other people from the scene that may be affected by depression and related health problems.
(5/May/2007)
Rasmus, the man behind the well known fetish blog 3XL from Denmark has just started a new project: A latex encyclopedia, the "Latex Wiki". He says that Wikipedia have now purged 99% of their fetish content and therefore the need to create an encyclopedia devoted mainly to latex fetish content became imminent. Now it just needs to be filled with content, so go ahead and join in the (latex) fun!
(27/Dec/2006)
German latex designer ''Fräulein Ehrhardt'' has made a name for herself designing sexy latex items for women that are equally at home in high fashion as they are in the fetish scene. Katja Ehrhardt, former designer for Marquis fashion, has developed a very unique style of latex items with that certain female touch.
For a while now, she has also been doing her own latex photography, taking pictures of beautiful models in her own latex designs. Finally, she has opened a website with her own photography, aptly named "HighGloss Dolls". Very nice!
(27/Feb/2006)
Karin and Wanco, a japanese rubber couple from Tokyo have been designing their own very colourful rubber clothes for some time now. Their great imagination and playfulness make for some very extraordinary colourful and unique latex outfits. They have taught themselves how to make latex by trial and error over the years and now that they have perfected their craft, they are teaching their friends and are holding latex design parties where everybody works together in designing their own latex outfits.
They have also improved the vacbed into a very interesting "3D Vacubox" where the subject enters standing up.
