News & events

BIRMINGHAM FETISH WEEKEND: 3 DAYS OF BRUM KINK IN NOVEMBERBilled as ‘a showcase of what the Birmingham and Midlands scene has to offer — the people, places and projects’, Birmingham Fetish Weekend returns on November 15-17 this year for a three-day programme split into five separate events.Although labelled a fetish weekend, and encouraging (though not insisting upon) a fetish dresscode...

RAIG: RUBBER AI GIRLS AND THE HARD WORK NEEDED TO CREATE THEMRAIG — an acronym for Rubber AI Girls — is the ‘pen name’ adopted by an AI artist who has gone to great lengths to keep his or her identity masked online (although we think it’s fairly safe to assume it’s a him!).For example, on Facebook, where the work...

HALLOWEEN SAMPLE SALE: LIBIDEX HOSTS LATEX BARGAIN WEEKENDIt’s nearly that time of year when Libidex hosts another Halloween Sample Sale at its London HQ in Islington, at 3 St Alban’s Place, London N1 0NX (which is just off Upper Street opposite Islington Green).The event will take place on Saturday and Sunday October 26 and 27 from 12 noon to 6pm...

TORTURE GARDEN HALLOWEEN: 4 NIGHTS, 2 WEEKENDS, 2 VENUES In just over a month, Torture Garden will once again celebrate Halloween — the single most popular fetish partying occasion of the year — by hosting no less than four Halloween-themed balls over two weekends at two of its regular London venues.TG will take over Scala, King Cross, for two nights...

SKIRTING THE ISSUE: LATEX SKIRTS FOR ALL + APRONS & KILTS FOR MENA latex skirt can be an extremely versatile addition to any latex wardrobe, as we intend to prove with this Skirting The Issue round-up. Among 70 skirts in our website’s Women’s Clothing section you’ll find everything from simple, cute and sexy minis, peplums and skating skirts (like the...

GOTHIC IMAGE AND SOPHIA GRAY SHOOT CHANNELS BRITNEY’S ‘TOXIC’ Gothic Image recently teamed up with Sophia Gray, a model new to fetish photography, to create a photo shoot inspired by Britney Spears’ Toxic video and based around Libidex’s air hostess-themed Toxic Dress and matching Stewardess Cap.With more than two decades of alternative fashion and portrait work to his name, British...

CHARMSKOOL HOUSE: KINK EVENT DURING LONDON FASHION WEEKCharmskool House — a one-off alt/fet event from Alexandra Houston of Wasted Chic, Le Boutique Bazaar and Charmskool Shop fame — will take place at a secret Soho venue on Saturday September 14, during London Fashion Week.Co-presented by Lover Management and combining art, education and social elements, it will feature a diverse line-up...

BRIGHTON FETISH WEEK: LIBIDEX SPONSORS 8-DAY FESTIVAL AUG 24-31Libidex is delighted to be a sponsor of Brighton Fetish Week, which starts this Saturday, August 24, and crams more than 30 events into an eight-day run finishing on Saturday 31. Promising to be the area’s largest fetish gathering, Brighton Fetish Week is an inclusive event, to which everyone is welcome regardless...

LATEX POWER DRESSING: LIBIDEX DEBUTS POWER & POSE COLLECTIONPower & Pose is a brand new latex collection just launched by Libidex — designed for women everywhere who want to embrace latex power dressing, or want to embrace it to an even greater degree!As the name suggests, this new collection, comprising more than 150 new styles, is not for the faint-hearted...

Yummy Gummy Latex founder Rebecca Allsop models catsuit made from her snakeskin-patterned sheeting (photo: Keith Barker)YUMMY GUMMY LATEX TO RETURN UNDER NEW GERMAN OWNERSIn news released at the end of July that has delighted designers and wearers of latex fashion, Yummy Gummy Latex, the British artisan sheet latex brand specialising in multicoloured and patterned latex sheeting, is to be revived...

ZDR & LAM: ZDR ‘LAST LONDON DATE’; LAM RESUMES IN NEW VENUEThe first weekend of August promises to be busier than usual on the fetish event front in London, thanks to events from both ZDR and LAM. Saturday August 03 sees ZDR’s postponed Blade Runner party descending on Union Club in Vauxhall, while Sunday 04 finds the first LAM (London...

LATEXWEAR ROUNDUP: LADIES’ LEOTARD STYLES TO APRONS FOR MENFor this new Libidex latexwear roundup — covering leotards, capes. gowns, robes and aprons — it’s important to note that, at the time of writing (July 26) the Libidex Grand Summer Sale was still running.For this sale, prices of almost all items on the Libidex website were reduced by 25 percent —...