The mix and match of our various pleasurable pursuits crisscrossing in the media are arguably at a high water mark. But add a dash of what Las Vegas is most known for (not gambling or “girlie shows”) but over-the-top theatrical displays one shouldn’t be surprised what the Golden Knights are presenting currently to the masses.
Although we have caught her sporting sporting gear or latex-like couture from Alexander Vauthier for a trip to the Grammies, who would have thought we’d be lucky enough to catch Rihanna in so much lingerie? At the beginning of this month the singer ‘dropped’ her new Savage x Fety line and it includes 90 pieces of lingerie, sleepwear, and accessories, as well as four core collections.
Whether walking the red carpet or performing sadly we must report that there was very little, if any at all, latex couture seen at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards held last Sunday. Hailing from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas this year, and seeing as this was a culture pop event we had hope that a celeb or two might lean towards wearing a catsuit or some other wardrobe piece we could consider in our wheel house. But alas they kept to haute couture designers, free of any truly unusual textiles, in what they wore coming in to the show and even when on stage.
Especially for us lovers of a particular type of textile art, we are in tune that there is rich and beautiful eroticism in the world around us. Championing this cause is a current museum exhibition in Germany, at Berlin’s Museum der Dinge, called “The Eroticism Of Things” (Erotik der Dinge).
At the 71st Cannes Film Festival-though there has not been so much as even a latex bustier seen in the South of France film festival this year so far-shoes have become so important in what they cause to happen as what one can say when not wearing them.
As unafraid to show herself off as to make full use of textile art in all its various splendor, Minaj is definitely one of the leaders in this particular pop arena. Watching “Barbie Tingz” and “Chun Li,” we know we are getting a high-water mark of video costume design that is pretty much the cutting edge of what is out there and, most importantly, what’s coming.
Not that it comes as any surprise that Ryan Reynolds is once again pulling out all the stops as Deadpool, but in the video here you see his sardonic superhero managing some pirouettes and even a grand jetés on stage with Céline. What makes the scene even better as the strings swell (and appear also on stage with the pair) is that Deadpool is prancing about in stilettos. How Céline stays serious is anybody’s guess. Talk about cosplay accessorizing, this is like watching Flashdance on steroids.
Expert erotic photographer Ashley Fontenot and famous fetish model Emily Marilyn have teamed up to reveal their specific take on latex fashion, alternative fashion photography and the overall world-class beauty of women in “Sugared Kiss.” Presenting this new “photography magazine of women, by women,” we asked Ashley specifically about the whys and wherefores of “trying to put together readers of Playboy, Skin Two, Vogue and Photo magazines in the same room and have them not judge each other,” as she says that her and Emily imagine they are doing with Sugared Kiss.