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The “Sartorial Diplomacy” Of Michelle Obama

Mrs. Obama made news this week-and certainly this will be the last time she does so in just this way-when wearing a rose gold Versace ‘chain mail’ gown at the Obama’s last White House State Dinner. Entertaining Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (who wore Giorgio Armani) and his wife Agnese Landini (who wore Ermanno Scervino), the President and First Lady held this last historic event of its kind with Michelle Obama causing quite the stir days later because of her custom made tight dress…and how wonderful she looked in it.

How Does Robbie Williams Stand Himself in “Party Like A Russian”?

Robbie Williams has released his seeming first single “Party Like a Russian” from his new Heavy Entertainment Show album, mining a wonderfully fetish dress-up look for the song’s video. Obviously taking a cue from the iconic Robert Palmer “Addicted To Love” video (as well as Shania Twain’s all-male beefy backing band on “”Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” ) Williams has his ‘band’ of ladies in high-knee, pinpoint heel, lace-up ballet boots and it is quite the sight.

Cosplay=Feminism

“I think cosplay has been one of the driving forces behind that (comic popularity). There are so many more women participating in not just the comic book fandom but the Con culture as well, at San Diego and other cons and that allows us to support a wider diversity of books.”

Seattle Fashion Week Is Here!

As much participating in the fashion exhibition, we are also thrilled to be part of what will prove to be an interesting interaction of so many talented people, from the textile art field, as well as so many others that the city of Seattle has invited. Sponsors such as City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture–King Street Station, Sound Transit-Union Station, City of Seattle Office of Economic Development, City of Seattle Office of Film & Music, SDOT and Vann.Edge Salon (on-hand for the models as well as just sponsoring) assures a lot of diversity of who will be on hand…for designers and attendees bot

Carrie’s Cool Clothes Gets “Divorced”

Sarah Jessica Parker as “Carrie Bradshaw” might not have worn so much (or any at all) latex outfits in Sex In The City. She was considered a fashion icon though from starring in that hit show of years ago, influencing culture with Cosmos as with her shoes, well-placed “material” flowers and clutches. “Did you see …

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Dawnamatrix Says, Show Off Your Fetish Style At These Upcoming Events

Also on the list for us interested in alternative wardrobe (as well as alternative life-styling), you should grab up your tickets for another event happening in Amsterdam, the Dominatrix weekend, before they sell-out. The main party starts 11/2 and presently there is a host of what are called “Combi Tickets” packages available. Those planning to go, or right now just thinking about it, can take advantage of the two days in any combination they like.

Halloween Couture For 2016

For pure science fiction, we saw the most popular science fiction movie franchise return this year with Star Wars: The Force Awakens; get ready for more Stormtroopers as the very least of the S.W. cinema wardrobe you will see. And with Star Trek’s 50th celebrated in 2016, we might just see lots of Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock coming to our parties.

Interview Magazine and Dawnamatrix, 4th Times A Charm

Alongside gloves from Balenciaga, Tiffany & Co. necklace and bracelets, and top by Tome, all on model Sarah Brannon we are once again thrilled to be part of Interview magazine. See the magazine page here https://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/full-throttle/

The Dressmaker

Australian audiences fell hard for this movie last fall. The Dressmaker hit the #1 spot at the ‘down under’ box office, earning $14.4 million in total and grabbed five wins at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards. One of these awards went to Winslet winning for best lead actress.

And Who Said New York Fashion Week Couldn’t Get Downright Weird…In A Good Way

VFiles models walked down the runway in umbrella hats and plastic bag dresses.
Chromat revealed a look of black straps over a high-waisted panty two-piece.
Namilia did us all proud with two latex-hooded models, one a see-thru hood matching a latex top of the same thin vanilla and a second model in a thicker white hood (sporting a shocking braid out the top). Another model wore an open shirt, chains across her bared breasts attached to a collar with the ubiquitous black X’s in tape across her nipples.
Jeremy Scott went all sequined color, with asymmetrical 80’s-influenced lines as much in tops as eyewear and wigs.

From Comic To Screen with Stuart Urban

In 2013 Preaching To The Perverted enjoyed a revival three years ago when a Kickstarter campaign produced a high def version of the movie, so Urban knows the power of kickstarter for sure. He also knows to offer Tortured In The Orchard in all forms, digital, paperback and hardcover contingent upon a kickstarter contributor’s monetary commitment.

Kim Kardashian Is Not There

Just this week in New York City Kim was seen stepping around town in a see-thru bra, a PABLO denim jacket-coming from her husband’s current tour/album swag- and transparent plastic high heel boots from his just revealed “Yeezy 4” collection. (Kanye just gave a big show at Roosevelt Park in New York City during New York Fashion Week to launch that collection.)

Celebrating The Vision, Cast & Style Of Star Trek On It’s 50th Anniversary

The Creator of Star Ttrek Gene Roddenberry said he envisioned his show as “Wagon Train To The Stars.” But the enduring quality of this visionary television serious that spawned movies, many other Trek series, product tie-ins, cosplay and conventions became so much more than the adventure yarn its creator wanted it to be

Dawnamatrix & Beyoncé @ The 2016 VMA’s: Together Again

Dawnamatrix congratulates all the other designers who continued to last night’s celebrity wardrobes and onstage outfits (be they latex or anything else), as well as all the winners and array of announcers on hand at Madison Square Garden, We also sent a special thank you to Marni Serofonte for honoring us again by reaching out and asking us to be part of Beyonce’s show-stopping performance

Big Changes To New York…Fashion Week?

Losing sponsors, venue changes, designers deciding not to show or showing in wholly different ways, mixed with after-parties and music celebrity outing/performances/runway shows taking the spotlight to many speak to a certain decline in the NYFW’s prestige and power. As a designer of certainly more ‘alternate’ couture all we can do is sit on the sidelines like the rest of you (unless somebody reading this blog is indeed one of those private appointment attendees …and if you are, please write us!) and see what comes of The Big Apple’s fashion week.

Dressed In Their Best For the 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony

When it came to this particular Olympic games nobody actually knew (or even still knows) what to expect. Deplorable athlete housing conditions, Zika virus scares and the recent mugging of Ryan Lochte and his teammates certainly speaks to certain obstacles heretofore unrealized in Olympic history.

Wagging The Dog In The Digital Fashion World

Just these two examples, and there are certainly plenty more, reveal the truth we all live with presently. No longer is social media and the net being influenced or reporting on culture, the reverse now exists, where apps and the social networking are influencing and driving fashion and style, so much so that whole new business are sprouting up from a Grindr or a Kim Kardashian West looking for bloggers (a job no one had before the net) for her beauty app.

Vancouver Fetish Weekend-Part 2

It’s true that alternate couture is a global pursuit. Even if we could exercise our most selfish business druthers we would still want to see a marketplace with all the latex designers presently available showing their wares across the net, at shows, and in stores. It’s a more-the-merrier atmosphere we have always felt and if you were to take a cross-section opinion from most designers, they’d admit they feel the same. Given this, we are still very proud to say we are an American-based (North Pacific America in fact) and were thrilled to share our designs with, as much as meet, all the fetish-y faithful from the area. Surely folks came from all over for the VFW, but there was no way ignore where we all were.

Creating Video: With Porcelain and Sierra McKenzie and Henry Vance

There is the sexy techno beat God’s Deathtrap Remix of Die Antwoord’s “I Fink You Freeky,” a kaleidoscopic overlay of images, inside and out provocation from the ladies and the matching of fur shrugs over both our high waisted panties in one scene and a cat suit in another (and a truly dangerous image of one of the ladies walking round in a gown from our Space & Time Collection, brandishing an axe.

Vancouver Fetish Weekend-Part 1

While Vancouver has a vibrant local fetish community, they are expanding each year to create an international sensation. The organizer at VFW said “This festival has been growing like blazes and this year everyone was talking about how it really felt like it had stepped up big time to a whole new international level”. We certainly saw that cross section of people in the nearly 500 who were at the fashion show Saturday night.

The Yummy Gummy Sheet Latex Sale 2016

Ironically, the latest big news of U.K. Brexit referendum seems to be truly benefitting overseas buyers. Prices are reduced in general across all U.K. retail products with the current weakness of the pound and if there was ever a time to buy some latex from a U.K. alternative wardrobe house (or go grab English goods in general) this might just be the very best opportunity to order up some Yummy Gummy sheet latex and have Dawnamatrix make you up a catsuit or some other sexy accessory.

Breaking News: Fake Superhero Dressed in Dawnamatrix Dragon Queen Bodysuit Walks Through Comic Con!

It seems the phrase ‘It doesn’t matter’ (in a good way) rules the day when dressing in a latex Dragon Queen Bodysuit at Comic Con. Buzzfeed’s Associate Creative Producer Mandy Caruso contacted us to create a custom version of our Dragon Queen Bodysuit, along with thigh highs and gloves for a Comic Con piece they were preparing….and we were honored to do just that. But Mandy created her own ‘fake’ superhero and nobody much cared, they loved her look anyway!

Fox’s Rocky Horror Reboot

The Fox film opens as a movie inside a movie, with an audience reacting to all the Rocky tropes watching the The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This time around the cast includes Victoria Justice, Ryan McCartan, Reeve Carney, Christina Milian, Annaleigh Ashford, Staz Nair, Adam Lambert, and Ben Vereen joining Cox and Curry. Wild cinema wardrobe seems to include metal studded black leather jackets, red corsets and speedos, so we might very well be on the right track for this remake (original Rocky duds have populated many a museum exhibit) become Rock impresario Lou Adler, produce of the original film as well as responsible for bringing the original U.K stage show to L.A., is coproducing this time around, with Kenny Ortega choreographing and directing. The men claim they will be staying true to Richard O’Brien and Jim Sharman’s original songs and script.

Ghostbusters Jumpsuit Homage

Surely, this Halloween will seem like 1984 as kids (especially ‘girls’ of all ages) take to sporting the infamous Ghostbusters jumpsuits, as will there be an uptick in Ghostbusting cosplay, as people celebrate Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and the rest of the crew in this modern day reboot of a costumed classic.

2016’s Comic-Con International: San Diego…Dressing Up Is All The Rage

For those in more of a masquerade dress-up mood (and maybe our Epic Ringleader Trench would do well for such an even?) HBO will present Comic-Con’s 42nd (yes 42nd, you read that right!) Annual Masquerade. This is where the lace hits the steampunk (and lots of other combinations to be sure) during a certainly award-heavy night. People portray their favorite characters on a big elevated stage through comedy skits, lightsaber duels, songs and dance. With four video screens providing close-ups for the nearly four thousand who will attend the show in the ballroom (and for another two thousand more watching on projection screens outside it) the audience will be witness to solo and group costuming of cinema wardrobe and other fanciful dress. Master and Mistress of Ceremonies will be-once again- five-time Hugo Award-winning artists and writers Phil and Kaja Foglio.

Giant Phalli and Kimono Wearing Crossdressers: Just Another April Weekend In Japan

It’s a sure bet you’ll find some of the very best latex clothing couture in cities like San Francisco, London, Amsterdam and Berlin. You can also assume the very best kimonos ca be found in Japan. And pretty much, this is the truth, though we try our best with our Dawnamatrix collection of latex kimonos. But when you are thinking of where to catch the best collection of kimono-wearing cross-dressers in Japan, you only have to look at the ancient Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Iron Phallus).

Naughty Writing And Fetish Latex Cartoons From Roxy Katt

Born in Western Canada in the early 1960s (and still living there) writer/cartoonist Roxy Katt first published erotica in 1997 in Heavy Rubber Magazine’s first edition. She jumped a few years until the mid-2000’s publishing again in earnest in anthologies by Cleis Press, Constable & Robinson, and Logical-Lust, and the many books she produces to this day. Presently she’s got a kinky story coming out in December in the print/ebook anthology: Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, is working on a novella set in the 1960s-a BDSM romance between a woman and a phallogyne (a leather-suited chauffeuse)-and promoting her Naughty Tales of Leather and Latex, published by the new and rising publisher Wordwooze.

The 19th World Bodypainting Festival

The addition of elaborate headpieces and prosthetics, props like fiery batons and even a separate “World UV Bodypainting Award” competition is what makes this festival unlike anything else ever seen. Further awards are given out for “Facepainting” “Airbursh” “Body Art with Special Effects” and “Brush/Sponge” to name only a few award categories.

Fergie Is a Mom We’d Like To Follow…In Latex

At 41 and a mom herself, Fergie certainly qualifies as a MILF (no matter what word you want to use for the ‘F’). Her new candy-colored video features openly out gay Spanish supermodel hunk Jon Kortajarena, delivering milk to a bevy of MILF’s, Fergie leading the gaggle. The scenes change from backyard lawns to soda fountains, to classrooms to bathtubs, pretty much each time showing Fergie and her friends in latex costume designs.

That Skirt Is Just Too Short

The Nike Premier Slam Dress is the signature outfit for female players on the circuit endorsing the sportswear brand. But this year a group of players paid to endorse Nike (and wear the dress) asked for alternations to the outfit, over concerns over the dress’s length (or lack of it). Simply put, a goodly amount of vocal lady players feel the dress exposes way too much flesh when they run, jump, manage splits and bend during pl

Battling Ageism in Fashion One Big Bushy Beard At A Time

We have seen celebrities and models like Lauren Hutten or a Helen Mirren fight ageism with recent fashion and accessory modeling campaigns. And certainly body image paradigms are being fought all the time (just this past year Sports Illustrated’s annual Swimsuit Issue featured not only featured its first plus size model on a cover-Ashley Graha-and another curvy lady, Nicola Griffin, who is 56 years old.)

What A Star Worries About Most…Her Armpit

At least Chopra has some humor about this all, and after all any news is good news, right? Tweeting about the armtroversy herself with an untouched picture of the armpit in question, Chopra added the hashtags: “#WillTheRealArmpitPleaseStandUp#nofilter#armpitdiaries.”

Seattle Fashion Week Photo Shoot By David M. Bailey Featuring Dawnamatrix Couture

We have been hearing only great things though about the upcoming Seattle Fashion Week. By all accounts and our sixth sense things are going to be a smashing success between October 13th and 19th this year. We have great confidence in the people organizing the event. Experience tells us that this will certainly prove to be the premier fashion happening for the north western part of the country. And we are tickled by all the other talent on the roster.