Fetish style is the winner on this year’s Brits red carpet!

Fetish style is the winner on this year’s Brits red carpet!

Fetish style — including latex, leather and other fet-inspired looks — was chosen by a surprising number of celebrities (or their stylists) for their red carpet appearances at last Saturday’s Brit Awards.

Leading the field of celebs embracing (or being embraced by) kink style was Sam Smith, sporting a black latex suit with ‘balloon’ arms and legs.

The outfit was created by Harri, a London College of Fashion Masters degree holder whose recent London Fashion Week debut with his distinctive inflatable designs garnered many fashion page column inches.

If Sam Smith looked a mite uncomfortable in his vaguely insectoid latex costume (later the subject of various Photoshop parodies including one by Ricky Gervais), nobody on the Brits’ red carpet looked more at home in their fetishistic attire than comic actress and writer Daisy May Cooper.

The This Country star’s in-your-face dominatrix outfit — allegedly a combination of latex, leather and wetlook — might have been an ironic choice, but Daisy carried it off with the panache of a genuine domme.

No wonder ITV, which was broadcasting the event, failed to censor her near-the-knuckle onstage quip about meeting the Sugarbabes in the ladies’ loos. Who, after all, would have been brave enough to hit the mute button on a woman looking as fierce as that?

Predictably, tabloid commentators who had to swiftly provide descriptive captions for the photos coming in of the Brits’ red carpet kinkery made some wild guesses that were sometimes well wide of the mark.

For example Munroe Bergdorf’s shiny black gown was described by some as PVC when it was clearly a classic Atsuko Kudo latex number.

Ashnikko’s gown — a transparent latex creation complete with gigantic ‘buboes’, by Hydra designer Anna Gloria Flores — was evidently too confusing for some pundits to say anything at all about it, at first!

You want leather? Ellie Goulding wore a black moulded breastplate by Cameron Hancock that might have been. Megan McKenna wore a black cowgirl outfit that could have been. Salma Hayek wore a black Alexander McQueen corset dress that definitely was.

And Billie Piper? She wore neither latex nor leather, but a pink-bra-topped, cream-sleeved Roberto Cavalli catsuit. The black bottom half, in what looked like high-end Lycra, hugged her figure so tightly, it appeared to have been literally sprayed-on. The lady has definitely come a long way since Doctor Who!