April 2025

COACHELLA 2025: KINK-ADJACENT STYLE AT APRIL’S TWIN WEEKENDS Coachella 2025, which just occupied two consecutive weekends (April 11-13 and 18-20) at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA, continued this year to be almost as important for showcasing edgy and kink-adjacent fashion as for its mix of rock, pop, hip-hop, electronic and indie music styles.Quite a few of this year’s...

BIG SPRING EVENTS: 5 MAJOR FET/ALT GATHERINGS IN UK, EU & USAMany fetish folk probably consider that spring has only well and truly sprung when we reach the period from late April to early June when a concentrated sequence of big spring events are staged annually by some of the fetish/alternative scene’s biggest international players. And this year we’re possibly...

VENUE FACELIFT NEWS: UK ALT/FET MARKETS’ LATEST PROGRESSTwo of the UK’s popular fetish/alternative shopping events found themselves facing a venue facelift earlier this year. And by complete coincidence, both were aiming to stage their respective ‘comebacks’ on exactly the same date: April 13. But while that date looks like being lucky 13 for one of them, for the other, the...

SPRING SALE: LIBIDEX REDUCES LATEX PRICES BY 25 PERCENTThe Libidex Spring Sale, which has just started, offers 25 percent off the full price of virtually all latex on the Libidex website. Spring is a time of hope, where flowers bloom and we come out of a long hibernation. And as long as you’re not too affected by the feeling that...