Seeing that Kim Kardashian didn’t break anything on her own cover of this same magazine three years ago, Nicki Minaj will probably not break anything either. But boy is the lady always upping the ante on what she might do and how she comes to wear latex and other alternate fashions to pretty much make our day.
Moschino finally released their transparent garment bag “Cape Sheer Overlay Dress” to the retail market this week. The plastic dry-cleaner’s bag is part of the ‘trash-collection’ the designer debut at Fall 2017 Milan Fashion Week. The clear full length gown is selling for $900.00, while a mini version sells for $600.00.
Now Fashion for Conservation will be bringing designs from the show (including some of our pieces) to Seattle’s Axis Pioneer Square (located at 308 1st Ave S., Seattle, WA 98104) for a cocktail fashion event, once again, fighting for conservation.
With next year’s Met Gala theme just officially confirmed, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” it’s is obvious these celebrity fashion events, competitions, fashion shows and galas, all look to make significant contributions. The influence and expose the fashion world, as they do culture on a grand scale, with everyone watching, posting and posing. It’s just heartening to keep seeing alternative wardrobe styling, albeit only a few really standing out at this year’s CFDA, making their mark.
To see our wardrobe pieces adorn the likes of Katy Perry or featured in magazines throughout the world, is also an honor and thrill. And then just to hang out with our fellow fashion fashionistas, as much admiring their work as being complimented on ours, rewards us in ways we can’t describe. But to be recognized recently by the school we learned so much of our craft in, as we just were in this Pratt Institute News piece, puts an icing on the cake that we have been hard baking the past few months.
Once again though celebrities seemingly out did us all…or just got lots of press and Instagram pictures over what they wore. Kim Kardashian managed to pull off a spot-on Cher, and daytime talk show host Wendy Williams dressed as the Statue of Liberty (and fainted live on her show overcome by the heat of the costume). But Heidi Klum out-celeb-ed her fellows, as she seems to do every year, in a perfect recreation of an iconic get-up.
Inspiring up-and-coming designers, and bolstering the dreams of men and women working hard in the industry is good for us all, not just those of us working in fashion. Empowered as we were with the back and forth in that class in Wellington that day (and we learned so much more from those young women than we could ever impart) we just know how attendees and speakers both will be buzzing come the first Friday in November.
One certainly won’t be bothered by a little less latex clothing (or no latex at all) if Daniel Day-Lewis is on screen. The trailer for his latest (and supposedly his last) film, “Phantom Thread” sees the enigmatic actor pairing once again with director Paul Thomas Anderson. The trailer for this period sartorial romance dropped just this week and as always with a PTA film, people are already talking Oscar, as much wondering what the movie is about.
K.P. super fan (one of the legion of “Katycats” who attend multitude Perry shows and dress in homemade outfits based on their favorite singer’s classic looks) Samantha Bolton drove over eight hours for a Perry show in Kentucky. She was also wearing a dress she designed made of more than 3,000 rhinestones for her planned meet-and-greet with the singer. Bolton’s outfit consisted of high heels with sparkly eyeballs and a black dress with a matching eye inside lips across her chest, matching smaller eyes on her skirt.
Surely, a wedding brings out the bride’s gown choices as much as her style for the special day, but Gucci Mane and Keyshia Ka’oir made sure the day was stylish for them both.
Iconic screen star Marilyn Monroe makes the news this week…and certainly this week we need a little fluff and lightness in our lives. A series of twelve photos of the star, many nudes, will go on sale at Heritage Auctions on the 11th. These stills, some color, some black and white, were shot by famous photographer Lawrence Schiller as Monroe was filming what would be the last film she ever acted in, “Something’s Got to Give.”
Katy Perry performed at the arena on Oct 11th and in keeping with their tradition of making each gift different and personalized to fit the artist, Barclays Center wanted something custom and memorable that really would stick out for Katy. They wanted something the pop star would really love, and something that also represented Brooklyn. And we were commissioned to make a jacket (see here) inspired by Katy’s song “Swish Swish.”
As always, Halloween will prove to be a wild romp for kids of all ages. So enjoy, be safe and dress-up as much as you dare.
Our latex clothing winning awards, a chance to see Hobbiton, hanging with a host of global designers; well here’s more of what Dawnamatrix got into during our trip to The World Of WearableArt Competition
If you don’t know, Peter Jackson filled “The Lord Of The Rings,” and his Hobbit films, on a ‘living’ set built into a family farm in Waikato, New Zealand. In fact, Jackson’s WETA workshop was one of the sponsors of WOW and awards their own prize at the show.
We won the Technology Award for our Labyrinth Gown, an award that “recognizes a designer that explores and applies the most original and innovative technology to the construction and/or function of their wearable art garment.” And we also placed 3rd in the Red Category for our outfit The Messenger.
Latex outfits and animals is what Dawnamatrix has been about most recently. While we jet on over to New Zealand for the Wearable Art Show (and yes, there will be pictures and stories about this trip coming here soon) we have also been involved with some feathery as well as tough-hided friends.
One can easily connect latex couture to cosplay or a pop performer’s stage gear. Justin Sayne, of JSL (Justin Sayne Leather), has recently brought his company’s leather fetish collection and popular accessories beyond high-end stage gear, creating guitar straps and microphone stands.
Kendall + Kylie are at it again…and they’re not even wearing some shocking latex outfit to court controversy! Most recently it was the sisters’ company being called out for using Tupac, Biggie and Redman images without permission. Now photographer Al Pereira has filed a new lawsuit against Kendall Jenner, Inc. for ‘appropriating’ those images he …
Once again gorgeous ladies, latex couture and lots of other alternate wardrobe is on display as seen through the eye of Peter W. Czernich. In his “Fetish Beauties” photo exhibition, the man known as the brains behind Marquis Magazine, is presenting his unique prints and books at the Etienne’s Art Galerie in Luxemburg at the end of September.
We love presenting our pieces in none traditional fashion show spots. Inside or out, down a delineated runway, across cobblestones, in the wide expanse of a Car Museum, serpentine through hot cars, the intersection of fashion and culture is what we are all about.
Elephants and latex couture? Well, at the upcoming London Fashion Week, mighty pachyderms will be walking the runway showing their stuff and Dawnamatrix is part of the show.
And while we have all heard names like Klaw, Burtman, and Page in context with what was considered alternative fashion modeling and picture taking, there are still plenty more men and women who paved the way for the Jean Paul Gaultier’s, the Alexandar McQueen’s, and even those iconic images of Hatstand, Table, and Chair we made mention of here.
In his new book, Charles Guyette: Godfather of American Fetish Art, Richard Pérez Seves presents the story of a man we all should know better
One expects a VMAs host to be entertaining and even outrageous. With Katy Perry at the helm for this year’s show, home viewers as well as the famous in-house audience members had to expect wild (and many) wardrobe choices from the hostess. And Katy Perry did not disappoint with her haute couture array, as she surely paid homage to the medium the VMAs were built on and are broadcast from.
From the lyrics on her latest release Joanna, to how humbled she seems around her fans, to interviews where her honest answers run in stark contrast to some latest wild haute couture she might be wearing, Lady Gaga is like no other modern day pop diva. And it seems Gaga: Five Foot Two will prove this point we have known all along.
With such media starry-eyed notables like Neil deGrasse Tyson bemoaning the loss of American space adventuring, investors like Musk putting their money where their flight is might spark some real space exploration again. Boeing introduced their own formfitting brightly-colored suit at the beginning of 2017, giving rise to the term ‘Athleisure for space.’
If one loves latex fashion and alternative stylings one can’t help but love Bravo’s Odd Mom Out. Writer/creator/star Jill Kargman has as much skirted round ‘Athleisure’ as she has the “violent and romantic” as was evidenced by this week’s show signature leather harnesses.
Over at The Fetishistas web portal (see here) there is a cover story on one of the top latex clothing models in the business, Monique Charriere. We keep up with The Fetishistas, reporting as it does on a wide range of international alternative lifestyle and happenings and wild styles.
The Loot Train Battle” from Game of Thrones the other night seems to be a game changer as far as H.B.O., cable, and all of fantasy fandom is concerned. If you caught the sequence, it was hard not to be stirred by Emilia riding Drogon over the Los Barruecos location, no matter whose side you happened to be rooting for.
The World of Wearable Art exhibition at the Museum of Pop Culture had such an impact on us all here at Dawnamatrix Studios. This fusion of art and costume was what I had been searching for and now that we have made it to this point all I can say is thank you all for following me in this journey.
The LeMay America’s Car Museum in Tacoma was full with cars, attendees and styles. Along with Dawnamatrix, four other designers presented their latest wardrobe collections and accessories.
Not that a latex skirt (link to: (https://dawnamatrix.com/shop/collections/basics/cheeky-skirt/) would garner front-and-center attention here, but to be sure at the 20th Bodypainting Festival (link to: https://bodypainting-festival.com/en/) in Klagenfurt, Austria there was more than just bare painted bodies on display. Anything from faux horse tails, disco balls and fish bowls were employed by 60 artists and designers …
As a homage to Robert Palmer’s “Addicted To Love” video, one might recall Shania in first top hat and long coat, with a bevy of beefy guys playing instruments behind her, then later revealing the iconic sexy corset/mini skirt look. Shania returns, albeit briefly, in some of that wardrobe in her brand new video, “Life’s About to Get Good” for the lead off single from her soon-to-be-released album, Now.
Not that Celine Dion ever truly left us. From Vegas residencies to recent performances at music events, this lady is surely a diva for the ages. But this recent work with Vogue certainly showcases how very daring the lady might like to get from time to time in her day to day dress to her costume designs to her very elegant wear
Yes, the latex costumes do manage to sneak in, but generally it’s a full cornucopia of latex, PVC lace, leather and pretty much anything else you can care to name that makes the cosplay scene. At San Diego’s Comic-Con 2017, attendees are showing up in all kinds of imaginative homemade wear and for the 4th year in a row Hot Topic and Her Universe celebrated this fantasy fashion at the 2017 Her Universe Fashion Show.
The Sidefeel Women Cute V Neck Sweet Scallop Pleated Skater Dress, from Amazon is made of polyester and spandex. It comes with scallop trim, the aforementioned slight low neckline and short sleeves and is available in yellow, pink, white, red, blue and black.