Take for instance the mainstreaming of model Cara Delevingne. The British lady is accumulating accolades presently in the big summer ‘teen’ blockbuster Paper Towns. Delevingne has made steps into the ‘mainstream’ acting world in both Face of an Angel and Anna Karenina, but the twenty two year old has slipped into public conscious now with her recent turn in Paper Towns and is getting great reviews.
This year’s VMA’s certainly won’t be the first time that latex clothing has played a part in the show’s proceedings. Dawnamatrix was involved in last year’s Video Music Awards (see here) and proud of it. But this year does mark the first time that world-renown kinky toy store “The Stockroom” lent a hand in ‘dressing’ a nominated video from a major pop star (in this case Taylor Swift). In Swift’s “Bad Blood” latex couture as well as a goodly amount of guns and slowmo female derring-do is widely featured; Swift, Selena Gomez and a slew of current lady stars romp through the clip as secret agent/bad ass ‘chicks’ getting revenge (see the video here.)
One can certainly understand why the “Bad Blood” video has received nine video award nominations, including “Video Of The Year”.
We are never really free of our super heroes, even when summer movie-going is winding down. Next year the first modern movie version of Wonder Woman will be seen in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The new lady to take charge of The Lasso Of Truth and those cool bullet repelling braclets, Gal Gadot is showing off lots of herself in the current issue of Interview Magazine. In just bra, underwear and stockings the new W.W. lounges quite ‘wonderfully’ in a hammock. And as you can expect there are as many people who appreciate the long-limb ex-Miss Israel’s form, as those who think she is showing too much of herself.
Certainly her appearance at the ESPY”s, the film clip pre-amble it showing Bruce’s Olympic glories, and the commercial for Jenner’s E! show I AM Cait shown post it gives muscle to the critics who claim this was all done for publicity. Still one can’t help be stirred by a speech where C.J. simply whittled down her point to: “…a very simple idea: accepting people for who they are. Accepting people’s differences.”
As we can all expect, this is not all of Gaga will be seeing. Not only is the pop star presently entertaining sold out crowds (with Tony Bennett no less) on her “Cheek to Cheek” tour, supporting the album with Bennett of the same name, but we she’ll be seen come October in the 5th season installment of the American Horror Story series. Announced back in February, but certainly news again since Comic-Con, the “Little Monsters” creator will be joining the monsters of the popular show in “American Horror Story: Hotel and Scream Queens.” Gaga’s character will play a nasty lady somehow involved with fashion (see the teaser trailer here).
There was also a heart-warming costume story that broke the beginning of the week of a Minnesota Man walking over 600 miles to attend Comic-Con 2015, dressed as a Stormtrooper. Kevin Doyle and his wife Eileen were fans of Star Wars and took to dressing-up together in costumes from the film (they actually met because they were both members the movie franchise’s costume organization, the 501st legion. https://www.501st.com/) From The Star Wars museum in Petaluma, Doyle began walking the California coast to honor his wife who died of pancreatic cancer in 2012. The near 60 year old man is hoping the trek will get him back to his photographing and illustrating and raise money for a children’s charity he launched in Eileen’s name,
Here David Rocha of Shogun Photography in Death Valley catches the sultry Elegy Ellem, a Swedish alternative model known for her arresting body art, voluptuous figure, and classic beauty. Elegy is modeling the Dawnamatrix Ring Harness a sexy couture accessory we find popular with women for wear either as is-as Elegy shows us-or layered under any number of other Dawnamatrix wardrobe pieces.
It would be hard to argue the success of E.L. James’ trilogy. Not only did the subject matter interest those of us of a more ‘liberal’ dress-up sensibility (one could entertain some kinky fantasies when wearing something like our https://dawnamatrix.com/shop/bottoms/micro-ruffle-skirt-2/) but the adventures of Anastasia and Mr. Grey took the world by storm. With the release of her new novel Grey, a book that tells the Fifty Shades story from Christian Grey’s point of view rather than that of Anastasia Steele, E.L. James sat for a national Twitter exchange Monday at https://twitter.com/hashtag/askeljames. Granted the nature of Twitter’s shorthand volleys can lead to some spirited and humorous exchanges, but a good percentage of the folks who lobbed questions at E.L. James were a bit snarky to say the least. Twitter followers as much hoped the author would soon get writer’s block, took stabs at the shallow nature of The Fifty Shade characters (one writer compared Anastasia to a blow up doll) and quipped whether E.L. James suddenly wished Twitter came with a ‘safe word’ after all the attacks.
Latex clothing will be the least of the ‘alternates’ on display at the very first Alternative Fashion Fest in Liverpool tonight. The event, organized by model, creative director and mom Jane Bellis will hopefully turn out to be a celebration of “many sub-cultures which are usually completely ignored and made to feel inadequate,” Bellis told the UK’s Echo newspaper. Opening with Lynsey Hughes’ fire eating, featuring globally recognized alt. models Kitty Von Krypt and Cherri Pi, the event that was four years in the making, is happening in Liverpool at Circo’s bar down at the Britannia Pavilion Albert Dock this very night. This ‘Fashion Show with a Difference’ boasts alternative couture and heavy tune-age with cocktails and “nibble platters” for those who will stay the whole night.