FAB.LONDON BIRTHDAY: founder Max Deviant and partner Marnie Scarlet, in her Laser Cut Latex Set made exclusively for FAB FAB.LONDON BIRTHDAY: SEVEN YEARS OF FETISH RETAIL IN CAMDEN FAB.LONDON, the fetish/alternative store launched by our ex-Libidex colleague Max Deviant back in 2016, has just notched up its seventh birthday as an independent retailer in London’s Camden Stables Market. Originally called...

Italian brand Cherry Latex (above) is due to make its GFB debut on the German Fetish Ball 2023 catwalk GERMAN FETISH BALL 2023 PREVIEW: BERLIN, MAY 17-21 In a few days’ time, the 2023 German Fetish Ball Weekend — the international fetish scene’s most prestigious gathering and biggest annual celebration of latex fashion and fetish — will kick off in...

Fetish on film: Bulle Ogier (left) taking care of business as the dominatrix in Barbette Schroeder’s Maitresse (1976)   FETISH ON FILM: FIVE DECADES, 20 GREAT MOVIES! With nothing much happening in the next few days, perhaps you’re looking for something distracting to entertain you on what would otherwise be just another ordinary May weekend? If so, how about bingeing...

We’re sure a lot of Libidex lovers are looking forward to giving their latex an airing at one or more of the fetish parties and festivals returning to kink’s international calendar over the next few months. So it’s disappointing to see complaints on social media this week that Meta (owner of Facebook and Instagram) might be having another of its...

Alejandra Guerrero, the Chicago-based photographer who had a big hit back in 2020 with her first fetish photography monograph, Wicked Women, expects to have her second book out this autumn with the same publisher (London’s Circa Press). Titled Auto Erotica, the new book combines two of Guerrero’s enduring interests: powerful cars and even more powerful women! “This collection of vignettes...

To judge from the column inches devoted to it by the British Press in the run-up to its release on Thursday April 13, the Netflix miniseries Obsession could turn out to be the streaming service’s equivalent to the Fifty Shades trilogy. Equivalent, that is, in the sense that it may well tap into a massive audience for the kind of...

We’re sometimes asked by customers whether Libidex, like other latex brands, ever supplies latex clothing to makers of movies, TV/streaming dramas or music videos. The answer is yes, we most certainly do! But we haven’t promoted this side of our work as much as some whose designs you might see sported by celebs on social media. However, since there is...

Many Libidex fans will be aware that all our latex garments are made with latex from our sister company Radical Rubber, one of the world’s largest supplier of sheet latex intended specifically for clothing manufacture. However, a very talented British artist by the name of Michelle Mildenhall has been proving for more than a decade now that sheet latex can...

 Fetish fans in London and beyond who were looking forward this week to attending ZDR’s Gods & Monsters event on Saturday (March 25) at Ruby Blue, just off Leicester Square, were dismayed to be told on Tuesday that the party had been cancelled. In an emotional message to ticketholders and newsletter subscribers, organiser Zara DuRose explained that she’d received a...

Fetish model, make-up artist and performer Beatrix Devine confesses that she’s been “addicted to latex” since first trying it on in early 2020. Now, she travels all around North America modelling for latex brands, appearing at a variety of fetish events throughout the year. At the time of writing, she’d just come off the runway at March’s New Orleans Fetish...

  At Paris Fashion Week nowadays, it seems to be not so much a question of if there’ll be any latex on show, but how much latex will be on show. That was certainly the case at the PFW that finished in Paris earlier this week. And it would be fair to say the latex designer’s name on everyone’s lips...

Next to our own LIbidex PopUp shops held at our Islington headquarters, our favourite London pop-up fetish/alt-fashion retailing event (with the emphasis on fashion) has to be Le Boutique Bazaar. Launched in late 2014 as a joint venture between the organisers of Torture Garden and Wasted Chic, these seasonal events started out at McQueen in Shoreditch before relocating to current...