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Georgina Chapman and Marchesa Get To Business

Being the soon-to-be ex-wife of Harvey Weinstein certainly could invest all manner of bad press on Georgina Chapman and her brand. In fact, in what has been revealed of her husband’s alleged abuses, it seems at times he threatened to black-ball actresses if they failed to wear his wife’s clothes across various red carpets. Still Chapman and her partner Keren Craig soldier on into the New Year with a collection of autumnal greens and dark prints, as well a vibrant purples and red.

Dawnamatrix Accessorizes Urban/BOHO PUFF Shoot

For us, latex accessories are as important as the shirts, catsuits and full wardrobe pieces we make. The two pictures here feature our latex gloves and our Premium Thigh Highs married with fabric garments shot for a urban/Boho shoot ‘PUFF,’ done locally.

Carol Burnett Celebrates…Bob Mackie

Not that one would expect Carol Burnett to be wearing a latex catsuit, but the famous lady comedian was sporting a designer dress on her Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special. And the designer of her dress was a man who dressed Mrs. Burnett for the entire run of her famous variety show, and a man synonymous with the very best costuming in Hollywood and truly worthy of a tribute: Bob Mackie.

Life Is Good for Shania Twain’s Couture Choices

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.

The Jenner T-Shirt Faux Pass

From their Kendall + Kylie clothing collection, the famous Jenner sisters attempted to release what they were calling “vintage” music t-shirts this week. The ladies took to superimposing their K&K logo or their faces (and in some cases, bikini shots) over classic album cover art and music star images. Using pictures from The Notorious B.I.G., Metallica, Led Zeppelin and many more, the sisters received a huge backlash this week when they revealed their latest attempt at hip haute couture across Instagram.

Dawnamatrix and Summer Jam 2017

It’s really fun to be part of all this great music of late. From Katy Perry’s “Bon Appétit” is video, to dressing Kima for this famous annual hip-hop fest, music is certainly in air round the Dawnamatrix design studio, as it always is in our hearts. And to be part of Summer Jam, in the small way we were, when this year a legend like Notorious B.I.G. was honored, was an even bigger thrill.

Turning Back Time And Believing in Cher

And here we have been going on about making Katy Perry latex for her latest video, “Bon Appetit” (of which we are infinitely proud). But did you catch Cher at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards this Sunday past? Katy P., Rihanna, all our reigning pop divas would have to give a nod to Cher, who …

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McDonald’s Feeds The Evil Empire

If they would have only asked we could have easily suggested where some latex accessories might have been added to update the look. Or why not even outfit the out front counter help with a catsuit or two (guys and glas both)? It seems though that the McDonald’s Corp. simply went ahead enlisting the services of designers Waraire Boswell and Bindu Rivas to develop brand new uniforms for their workers. And those uniforms are now coming under a social media firestorm, least of all for their too-easy comparison to costume designs from villains in the Star Wars franchise.

Dawnamatrix collaborates with artist Lana Crooks for the World of Wearable Art competition

Dawnamatrix and sculptor and fiber artist Lana Crooks collaborated to make a dress for the upcoming World of Wearable Art competition in New Zealand. WOW® is a globally respected and renowned international design competition. Yearly it draws hundreds of entries from all over the world, awarding $165,000 in prize money, and internships with huge creative companies, like the Weta Workshop, known for their work on “The Lord Of The Rings” trilogy, among others films.

Hillary In Leather

Culturally we’ve pretty much come to expect the black jacket turn from men. From Brando in “The Wild One,” to Elvis’ ’68 “Comeback Special” (dressed in head-to-toe black leather actually) to John Travolta’s T-Bird leader in Grease, the ubiquitous leather jacket has been recognized as male king-of-the-heap style. Yes, we did have Beyoncé wearing her Dsquared2 black leather jacket during her 2016 Super Bowl half-time show, but for a woman of such important feminist presence as Hillary Clinton sporting a leather jacket makes a statement indeed. And that the ex-First Lady chose these particular wardrobe choices at this specific conference made an even bigger impact around the web.

BeGLOSS For You, Your Latex and A Shiny Good Time

From something as simple yet necessary as a polishing cloth to a hygienically safe easy glide dressing gel Dawnamatrix presents the full range of your latex and skin care needs with BeGLOSS. Imported from Germany, formulated specifically for high-end latex garments, the BeGLOSS line is high-grade professional quality care items, the very best for keeping your outfits in top shape and your skin, supple and ready when you come to wiggle and writhe yourself into something for the night out. And not only does the BeGLOSS line take care of you and your latex, it will also add life and shine to any fetish clothing, from vinyl, faux & real leather.

Torture Garden Almost Rings In The New Year

Seeing beyond the New Year, you might want to lube up your catsuit or latex hakama pants for T.G,’s first event of 2017, their Valentines Ball to be held at the 9-room Coronet on 2/11. And a bit further afield from London, TG will roll into Edinburgh at the Caves on 2/25 for Torture Garden Edinburgh. The organization is also planning to roll out events for Rome and Japan later in the year.

Velvet Anyone?

Here at Dawnamatrix we live for the unlimited possibility of textile art and how it relates to alternative couture. Zara doesn’t sport anything as naughty as a velvet catsuit, one probably wouldn’t be combing the site for a cosplay outfit or fetish gear specifically (although who can say how someone might come to use velvet?). But it is important to note, that just as we have seen with latex, there is a strong market for materials slightly to the left of what is commonly used in everyday couture, and not just for video stars or for Lady Gaga checking out her local deli counter.

Black Friday through Cyber Monday Sale!

Dawnamatrix will have our yearly sale from Black Friday through Cyber Monday. 20% off all catalog items with code THANKS2016 from November 25th to 28th.

Heidi Klum’s ‘Conceited’ Costume Design

This year we pretty much got Heidi Klum as Heidi Klum, just that there were a lot of them (her). Wearing identical costume design of nude thigh-high boots, body suits and gold, the same long wavy locks, make-up, hair and nails done all together to look alike…and prosthetics, Heidi and five of her clones went as Heidi Klum to the party.

Globe-trotting with Dawnamatrix

From Copenhagen back to Seattle (with a stop in Iceland too), premiering both our laser cut latex catsuit and latest full latex collection, “Waterproof,” enjoying the company of so many encouraging people, from fashionistas, models, designers, photographers and fans, and seeing some amazing spots, the past few weeks of the Dawnamatrix schedule has been wondrously busy.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.)

Before The Beehive

Heldt, who died this week at the age of 98, opened her own salon and had the Cosmetologists Chicago organization name a scholarship for her, created the towering conical woman’s hair style for a hair styling magazine in 1960, called her invention “the beehive” and quickly saw starlets and politician’s wives sport the do well into the decade…and beyond. Supposedly inspired by a black velvet hat the lady stylist found one night when working late as her family slept, Heldt built the hair in a wrap-around conical style creating what the magazine at the time called, “a circular silhouette with high-rise accents.”

A Dawnamatrix Summer: Vancouver Fetish Weekend, Seattle Fashion Week and the Fetish Fashion Party in Copenhagen

We’ll be making our west coast debut at Vancouver Fetish Weekend, 7/21-7/24. Hundreds of local and global fetish enthusiasts from all over the world will come to the long weekend and celebrate with an international community of fetish partiers, performers, models, designers, artists and photographers. Opening with the Scarlet Harlots Fetish Ball at the newly renovated The Imperial, followed by the Fetish and Fantasy Ball the very next night then both The Extreme Players Fetish Cruise and the Sleaze and Tease Player’s Ball after the cruise as the ending party, there will be plenty happening here for anyone’s tastes.

Amazon Is Wearing Latex?

Now for the alternative clothing market, latex couture specifically, Amazon has only dipped their toe in the water thus far. It would seem niche styles, material, textile art clothing might just be left to us all to figure out, as least for now. The fans, friends and customers we have seem to be more about meeting at fetish fashion events, posting over Instagram, keeping-up relationships via Facebook and Twitter, ordering custom made items or picking tasty morsel from our online store, more than they are for shopping for a latex bra on Amazon (this is not to say people aren’t buying their latex couture through Amazon, it’s just that so far in our experience we have seen our customers come to us in other ways.) But forward thinking as Dawnamatrix has always tried to be, we welcome any new way of selling and honest and fair competition. It would be foolhardy to keep blind to progress, or not recognize a giant like Amazon making the strides that it is.

The Future Is Not ‘Exactly’ Now @ The 2016 Met Gala…But Miss Bey Was In Latex!

ABC-TV news announcers wondered over Beyoncé latex gown and how she kept cool in it, as Miss Bey topped the dressers at the Met Gala at the beginning of the week. With co-host Taylor Swift “Goin’ Goth” in mostly black thigh-high strappy sandals and a silver mini and Zayn Malik sporting silvery faux robot arms, lots of celebs were attempting dress to the “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology,” theme of the night. While others, notably Beyoncé, went her own way…in a stunning latex fashion design.

Sometimes It Really Is All About The Corset

Yes, when it comes to fashion statements, we sexy costume, cosplay, latex outfit wearers have known the power of a corset (for both men and women) for a very long time. You know how it goes, they eventually catch-on to what we have been doing for decades. They suddenly realize that you might just turn heads by wearing specific pieces of lingerie on the outside of your clothes…or just the lingerie with a little jacket over it. Or they start taking to a specific material-latex maybe-and call because one or two big time celebs get seen out and about it a latex catsuit once in a while, or somebody sports a pair of leather gloves to the elbow. We can’t be haters for the John·ny (or Jill)-come-late·lies though, they are just getting hip to what we have already known and have to be patient enough to lead by example.

Book Review: How To Make Latex Clothes, by Goldust

In How To Make Latex Clothes, by Goldust (aka Latex Jim), a man who has worked as much for latex houses as he has given workshops on the art of latex working for nearly a decade, the reader gets a very positive ‘course’ on how to work with that material we all love so much. Easy to follow instructions (plus some good photos) are presented for methods in gluing, prepping, and cleaning latex even. In conjunction with his online Youtube tutorials, Jim lays out lots of his knowledge in this unique book that approaches the art of latex outfit making in the very best of ways.

The 3 Things You Can Do To Get Your Latex Look Looking Even Better

Loath that we are to admit it, it sometimes takes a bit more than just buying from a reputable designer making killer alternate couture (we can recommend one of course) to get your latex outfit looking smashing. We as much get customers coming to us ordering custom made wardrobes, as others who want to just grab a pair of leggings right off our site. In all instances we are here to help as much as we can, forever hoping our customers go away happy and come back time and again. But there are also a few suggestions we try to impart at conventions, backstage at runway shows, as much in emails and just in every day gossiping to potential clients and friends that we feel make a latex look look even better.

Jenny Beavan Leather’s-Up The Oscars

Yes, once again we saw no latex bodysuits or accessories walking the red carpet, but there was one true alternative wardrobe moment at this year’s Oscars. Worn by none other than 2016 Academy Award winner for Best Costume Design, Jenny Beavan-winning for her work “Mad Max: Fury Road”-Beavan paid homage to her film by wearing a leather jacket sporting the film’s skull logo on its back. Claiming to press backstage at the broadcast that she absolutely” does not wear heels and “I look ridiculous in a beautiful gown.” Beavan certainly represented the rebel in us all, if only ultimtaley for her comfort, and didn’t look anything like the “bag lady,” Stephen Fry claimed she did.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Is A Hot Topic

We all know Victorian-era clothing is just perfect for dress-up possibilities and seeing as Seth Grahame-Smith’s 2009 parody story mashed-up Jane Austin with flesh eaters, we get comely lasses in lace and petticoats dispatching monsters across a blood-soaked English countryside. But what the ladies of the time wear under their outfits is what most interests Hot Topic here, as they have managed to produce a new line of unmentionables for fans of the movie…or just ladies who wish some extra special dressing-up under their everyday wardrobes.

The 2016 Barbie Might Just Surprise You

She’s still not sporting any latex accessories, but the 2016 Barbie, as just announced from its maker Mattel, certainly is seeing some interesting modernizing. And it’s not so much the cars, planes or even the fantasy wardrobe the doll is getting anew, as it is options in body types that makes this year’s plastic lady so interesting.

David Bowie Icon: A Personal Reminisce

From the flaxen haired folk troubadour, to pushing past the boundaries of androgyny (and more or less inventing glam rock) with his spaceman alter ego Ziggy Stardust (certainly influencing some of own ‘space oddity’ styles https://dawnamatrix.com/shop/new-items/plugsuit-style-catsuit/ & https://dawnamatrix.com/shop/collections/classics/spiked-bodysuit/ . to pursuing Orwellian soundscapes as a Diamond Dog, then mining “Philly Soul” as the emaciated Thin White Duke (a period in his life where Bowie himself said he was scared by what he was becoming), to celebrating the synth laden dark tonalities of “Krautrock,” to all his acting, producing, writing songs for others, laying down the price of “Fame” with John Lennon, to selling stock in his songwriting royalties seeing well into the digital age and then releasing brilliant albums this century, up to his last Blackstar, released just last week on the man’s 69th birthday, containing all too prophetic songs like “Lazarus” (see the video embedded here…and Bowie just broke Vevo’s music video record) really is there anybody better then David Bowie?

Yes, Sometimes ‘Alternative’ Fashion Means…Sex

A latex catsuit, rubber clothing, fantasy costuming is damn sexy and is used often for characterizations of naughtiness that can range from coy expressions of sexuality, to outright kink and fetishes. It all works for us, from the high couture to the tie-me-up-for-a-spanking scene (in real life or film); like you all, we are just tickled when the latex is brought out, in any way it can be!

The sexiness of an ‘alternative’ wardrobe, non mainstream fashion is seen time and again (so much so in fact that many a layman fashionista-if there can be such a person-often comes to link latex/rubber/PVC clothing as being always about something sexual) as we have reported often and is seen in stark example on the new Showtime offering Billions.

LOVE Magazine’s Advent Calendar Tickles Us Close

Yes, the upcoming Pirelli calendar is getting lots of press-and the women posing in that famous Italian fashion export are not even nude this year or even wearing latex outfits-it’ the annual LOVE Magazine Advent calendar that seems to be earning the most attention for its salacious content. With their pictures and videos of scantily clad celeb ladies rounding out their month of days, we see lots of high-waisted panties and bra sets, dangling garters (or those attached to stockings) model Zendaya going way out in a 2001: A Space Odyssey homage and Pamela Anderson (the last woman to appear completely nude in “Playbo0y” magazine actually) in classic black 50’s lingerie. Kendall Jenner even walks through video fire in her own stocking and garter set while wearing various fur coats.

Custom Orders

Made-to-order designs are a Dawnamatrix specialty. Do you want a bespoke garment rendered to your color choice, size, and specifications? We will create a one-of-a kind design created for you and you alone…nobody you ever meet will step out in a latex outfit like the one you own. Whether creating your fully unique heretofore unrealized …

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