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Paloma Faith: Keeping the Faith with Latex
Paloma Faith performing at Brighton Pride in 2022, wearing a red Atsuko Kudo Lady P latex catsuit under an M.Fiction wetlook coat
PALOMA FAITH: KEEPING THE FAITH WITH LATEX
With a few notable exceptions, celebrities who appear in public in latex — especially those at the Hollywood end of celeb culture — tend to do it primarily to draw media attention to themselves rather than because they are expressing any genuine affinity with kink.
However, this is not an accusation that can be levelled at British singer Paloma Faith. Before her successful career as a chanteuse, she was a trained dancer who performed at burlesque events and — gasp! — at actual Torture Garden parties!
During her subsequent singing career Paloma has performed in a lot of latex, and this article samples just a small selection of her many memorable appearances in our favourite fabric.
The earliest, specifically latex-related reference to the singer Google offered us was a delightful exchange of tweets (sadly now bereft of its picture) from July 2010. This was when designer Lady Lucie tweeted a pic of Paloma backstage at Lovebox Festival wearing her latex, and Ms Faith replied: “I think your stuff is amazing! I want to own a whole house made of latex!”
That is surely an ambition she could quite easily have fulfilled by now. But whether she actually settled for a home with just a large wardrobe full of latex or an entire dressing room stuffed with it, there is little doubt that her love of latex is more than just skin deep.
Ten years ago, Paloma wore this William Wilde red latex dress with contrast white top section and neck bow in Comic Relief TV show
For example, some ten years ago in March 2013, she wowed British TV viewers watching Graham Norton’s Big Chat Show for Comic Relief (the BBC’s annual charity fundraiser) by performing in an all-latex ensemble. She wore a William Wilde red latex dress with contrast white blouse-style top section and giant red and white check bow at the neck, which she accessorised with a red latex beret from Atsuko Kudo. The dress was auctioned after her performance and appears to have been snapped up for a final bid of $4,460!
Wilde was again designer for Paloma Faith’s 2014 Roundhouse concert; she wore his white Tuxedo Blouse and black Lolita leggings
Then the following year — nine years ago this very week, in fact — she made a big impression on the Press covering her concert at London’s Roundhouse in another William Wilde outfit. This time it was a sleeveless white latex Tuxedo Blouse with flared peplum, mock shirt-front detailing and attached black bow-tie, which she wore with black Lolita Leggings from the same designer.
2022/23: Brighton Pride, Vogue BAFTA party & Coronation party
Brighton 2022: Paloma before and after shedding her coat to reveal Atsuko Kudo Lady P latex catsuit and matching red thighboots
Jump forward a few years and latex-loving Paloma was hitting the headlines again in August 2022 at Brighton Pride, where she performed on the open-air stage in a bright red latex Atsuko Kudo Lady P Catsuit with bra-top styling. The catsuit, with perfectly matched red platform thighboots, was only fully revealed when she flung off the shiny red, ruche-sleeved, M.Fiction coat she’d been wearing over it.
However, there are those who contend 2023 is currently shaping up to be a real vintage year for the London singer and her long love affair with latex.
At Vogue’s 2023 BAFTAs after-party Paloma Faith wore a black latex Atsuko Kudo Joy body and stockings beneath pink fabric dress
In February this year, Paloma attended the British Vogue/Tiffany & Co Fashion And Film BAFTA after-party, at which she schmoozed with the likes of Joan Collins while clad in a black Atsuko Kudo Joy Body and matching latex stockings worn under a pink (non-latex) dress. Or, if you went with the Mail Online description, it was a pink dress with a black PVC top section. Or, according to another report, a patent leather dress. Well you know what they say: you can lead a hack to latex, but you can’t make them think!
Coronation: Paloma reprises Atsuko Kudo latex body/stockings, with Roksanda dress (left) for show and Westwood look backstage
And finally, to bring things right up to date (in one sense, anyway): can you guess what Paloma Faith did for her Coronation performance earlier this month? She reprised February’s striking latex-and-fabric theme, wearing the same Atsuko Kudo black latex body and stockings (with added gloves) but topping the latex with a different contrasting dress — this time a voluminous style by Roksanda. In some pictures shot under stage lighting this dress looks pink, but we’re fairly confident it was actually more towards the red end of things because its designer chose the red version above for her Instagram — and why would she do that if not?
Paloma already had her latex on for earlier backstage interviews, but at that time it was combined with a Vivienne Westwood ensemble in homage to the late designer. The outfit was accessorised with some very dangerous neckwear that, wisely perhaps, was discarded for the actual performance!