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Dawnamatrix, Paul Allan & Celina Greinke shoot for Snow Winters Designs and Annxannxdesign

Once again we were honored to showcase our latex couture on a stunning model, through the lenses of an expert fashion photographer. This time the images from our recent shoot with Paul Allan photographing model Celina Greinke were executed as a promo shoot for jewelry designs collaborations with two very talented alternative accessory makers, Snow Winters of Snow Winters Designs and Han-Yin Hsu of Annxannxdesign.

GLOW Returns, Promises Wilder Styles

Spandex trumps latex couture, but who cares when a T.V. show is as entertaining as GLOW? The explosively popular ladies wresting series premiers its 2nd season a few days before the 4th of July, and if the trailer or teaser is any indication the action and comedy this time hits, knocks down and for all intents and purposed pins the first season. What also seems to have been given an uptick is GLOW’s look.

Nicki Minaj At The 2018 BET Awards

When it comes to featuring latex couture and alternate fashions in her live performances and pretty much any place else we see her, Nicki Minaj is a queen. Yes, Katy Perry, Beyoncé, so many others singers and actresses wear latex bodysuits, tops and latex lingerie on stage, in their videos or just out and about town. But if you caught Nicki Minaj’s performances at the 2018 BET Awards just passed you’d have to admit this rapper/pop star is at the top of the heap when it comes to rockin’ latex.

Pride 2018

We should all expect only the most colorful and stylish couture when it comes to Pride Weekends, with latex outfits, lace, and bright color cottons seen across our fine cities. Marches, parties and celebrations of purposefulness as well as celebratory fun is what the whole Pride Month is about and reflected on the streets of so many cities and in the hearts of so many people.

Material, Color, Embellishment, Style at the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards

When it comes to the possibility of seeing latex couture, leather ensembles, completely alternative styles, and wild color, one can’t hope to do better than a MTV award show. The 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards, occurring this past Monday night, didn’t disappoint in wardrobe variety. We even managed to see some pieces that one might even consider actually alternative.

What Beyoncé Wears When Going Around Again

Currently working through the European stage of their huge On the Run Tour 11, Beyoncé and JAY-Z reveal a costume during the show that would even make a latex clothing devote stand-up and take notice. Interestingly enough, though we reported on the couture the couple is using in ORT11, one of the most unique (and downright sexy) dresses to take notice of appears only on video during the show.

Taylor Swift Plays Fashionably With Her Reputation

A pop star need be forever challenging both their music and style and Taylor Swift seems to have been able to reinvent herself time and again, change music styles from country to pop to even sprinkling in some rap and she’s wearing some great stuff doing it.

The 2nd Annual Couture & Cars Fashion Show

To be sure, the cars are any amazing accompaniment to the couture and does make the Couture & Cars Fashion Show certainly something we love to be part of. The visual allure of vintage and modern exotic sportscars with models walking a runway among them is a match made in alt. fashion heaven. We know for instance, that the World of WerableArt’s museum, all the way over in New Zealand, featured a match-up of fashion designer’s clothing (our winning one included) with cars just recently and Mr. Bailey’s assumption that more men do attend these shows seems to be born out time and again when we have seen our couture matched with car culture.

Lady Gaga For Fashion Icon…or President?

Then throwing all this wardrobe mixing and matching asunder, Lady Gaga made an appearance at the One America Appeal concert with the five living ex-U.S. presidents. President George H.W. Bush, President George Bush, President Jimmy Carter, President Barack Obama, and President Clinton all attended the concert to help victims of recent hurricanes in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. And Gaga posed with the great men.

Being WOWED Again: Dawnamatrix Enters the 2018 World of Wearable Art Competition

Proud as we were of attending, competing and winning with our latex outfits in last year’s World of Wearable Art Competition, you can bet we have entered the event for 2018. This actually marks WOW’s 3oth anniversary, so we are even happier (if that is possible) to have submitted for the show this special year.

Celebrating Memorial Day With Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty

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.

2018 Billboard Music Awards: Fashion, Inside and Out

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.

Exploring every’thing’ at the Museum der Dinge

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).

Tripping Over Cannes 2018

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.

Chun-Li and Barbie Tingz Up The Ante

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.

Céline & Deadpool, The Perfect Match

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.

Taste The Sweetness Of Sugared Kiss

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.

Changes Come To The Fetishistas

The Fetishistas is one such online portal, a magazine delivered via email, a site that changes monthly, full-to-bursting with the latest we all are so interested in but don’t all have the time to try and find piecemeal. The wonderful Tony Mitchell brings everything together with his specific panache and just this month he has announced a redesign of his site’s home page and cover, plus the addition of an “Editor’s View” and “Editor’s Pick” section.

Latex and Punk Lead “How To Talk To Girls At Parties”

Based on a short story by top fantasist Neil Gaiman, directed by John Cameron Mitchell, the man behind the iconic “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” How To Talk To Girls At Parties premiered at Cannes this year. Its release date has yet to be determined, but you can watch the trailer above and get as excited about the movie as we are.

Dawnamatrix In The MAC Nicopanda Launch in NYC

. The recent event for the lady’s line was for the launch of the company’s brand new cosmetics, MAC Nicopanda. As you can see from the pictures here, we provided the latex leggings model Jazzelle Zanaughtti was wearing for her appearance. Matching one of our best selling latex accessories with her silver skirt, big sweatshirt and heavy heeled shoes, makes for a modern street fashion look we could never have imagined, but were certainly blown away by when we first saw it.

Heavy Rubber Relaunches

Of course there are lots of designers featured in H.R. (the models have to wear somebody’s wardrobe, right?), and we are thrilled to be in such illustrious company with alt. couture makers from throughout the world. As with Marquis, what you get in Heavy Rubber is a presentation of the very best talent-models, designers, photographers, visual artists and writers-from around the world.

Interview in City Arts

I never know what someone will think when they step into the nuts-and-bolts of our manufacturing. It certainly isn’t as glamorous as one of my wardrobe pieces being featured in a Katy Perry video or on a model posing in the latest issue of Vogue. That ‘end result’ is something I do enjoy witnessing of course, even being congratulated over ( I won’t lie, I like the affirmation as much as anyone.) But the day-to-day work isn’t sexy by any means, although it is rewarding in a way I can’t readily articulate. But Amanda and City Arts reported on what we do in such a special way

The Tech++Fashion Show

Come this April 26th, we are presenting a Dawnamatrix fashions at the Tech++ Fashion Show being held at the Seattle at University of Washington Intellectual House. At that show we will also be showcasing the Acrylic Amour collection.

Opium Ink: Porcelain Doll

Latex couture and sexy striking music videos, has there ever been a better marriage? Here is a still and the link to the video “Porcelain Doll,” by the band Opium Ink that just dropped this week. In the video you will see our black latex Cropped Top, Basic Leggins and Classic Hood that we contributed to the production.

Invisibility, Anyone?

But what about courting the idea of invisibility with our wardrobe? Exploring that age-old science fiction/fantasy trope of throwing on a piece of clothing, flipping a switch or getting under J.K. Rowling’s “Invisibility Cloak,” stepping unseen throughout day. It seems Engineers at the University of California, Irvine quite possibly have cracked the code on invisibility material.

Happy Holidays and Couture Costume Updates with Jesus Christ Superstar Live!

Starring John Legend in the title role, Sara Bareilles as Mary Magdalene and rock legend Alice Cooper as King Herod, the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice 1970 rock opera is being updated particularly by Paul Tazewell’s costume designs. This is the man who won a Tony for Hamilton just recently.

Grace Jones Hits Us With Her Bloodlight and Bami

Arguably, Grace Jones wearing a latex costume or two or some other alt. fashion accessory is probably the least provocative thing the actress, singer, performance artist, fashion icon, model has managed during her career. The trailer for Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, a new documentary film about Miss Jones’ life and career was just released this week.

Israel Adesanya Wears a Flower

MMA fighter Israel Adesanya, certainly a walking/talking/fighting example of culturally accepted macho-ness, is featured in the new campaign for Karen Walker’s “Monumental” line. In advertisements for Walker’s glasses, Adesanya wears a bunch of different styles (some of a more feminine stripe) with and without a shirt; a flower tucked behind his ear in every shot.

Dawnamatrix & Shady Bitch Eyewear

Forever championing the empowerment of women (and men too) Dawnmatrix has always been about expressing one’s self through our textile art. Be it transforming, costume play or imbuing the wearer with the confidence to step out feeling as sexy as they ever can, we agree with Shawntil’s’ take on wearer (women with sunglasses in her case) as warrior.

Trending Wedding Couture

ut with March 1st now officially delineated as National Wedding Planning Day and Lyst (tracking over 10 million searches from 70 million brides in 2017) and Etsy (their expert Dayna Isom Johnson making the startling, and it seems the correct prediction that jumpsuits would be the newest wedding trend) releasing their wedding fashion trends for the year, we thought it might be time to weigh in about nuptial wardrobe for 2018.

OTR II Is Coming

Beyoncé and JAY-Z just announced the dates for their On The Run 11 tour. This set of concerts will take the pair through stadiums, beginning in the UK, then running through Europe and swinging by romp through North America, starting July 25th. The husband-and-wife musical juggernaut last toured together in 2014 for the first “On the Run” tour.

Dawnamatrix Rising

In an interview by Abby Luschei, in a piece called “The Rising Of Dawn”, I give forth on all I can about the specific sexy haute couture I make and how I first came to make it. We as much cover how one can spice up their wardrobe, tackle the concept of what fetish fashion is and get into my studying kimono fashions when I lived and taught in Japan. Being a Seattle-based magazine, Abby also got my take on living and working here in the great Northwest of the U.S.

Things Get Slightly ‘Alternative’ During Fashion Month

Be it a latex skirt, a rubber mask, any kind of chainmail accessory, you know we are all about pushing boundaries of fashion and style. But as we have reported on plenty, one doesn’t usually find such way-out attempts during the haute couture of worldwide Fashion Month. A quick check though of what was just revealed recently in Milan, New York and London did actually surprise us.

Kim Kardashian’s Controversial Vogue India Cover

Being a huge proponent of the various Vogue magazines around the world, as well as seeing quite a bit of our latex couture featured on models in those magazines, when a story about Vogue appears across the web we certainly take a gander. This week there was quite the controversy brewing over Kim Kardashian and Vogue India.

A Rebel’s Jacket Pulls Down Half A Million?

Besieged by superhero movies, we are all well aware of latex couture, PVC, rubber, and leather being the basis of our most recent movie costuming. But there has been styles/wardrobes/make-up and even everyday items worn in Hollywood movies that become iconic above and beyond the possible ‘interesting’ material they are made from. James Dean’s cherry-red windbreaker from Rebel Without a Cause is one such famous movie wardrobe piece. That jacket comes up for action this week.