And We Thought A Latex Hood Made A Statement
Accountant Zhang Shifan, who lives in China’s seaside city of Qingdao, initially created garment so beachgoers could be protected from jellyfish stings.
Accountant Zhang Shifan, who lives in China’s seaside city of Qingdao, initially created garment so beachgoers could be protected from jellyfish stings.
This high fashion outfit is high collared and sleeveless, featuring a zip up the front, flowing hemline and princess seams, with a dramatic hood.
A classically patterned, heavy rubber opera coat with a structured hood. Cords at neck allow this style to double as a cloak. Please indicate secondary color for hood interior.
A flowing, hooded poncho with 2-way front zipper and 2 additional front zippers, with structured shoulder seams.
One could easily opine that latex clothing, cyber sleuthing and hoodie-wearing anti-heroes are all the rage presently. During the recent Television Critics Association press tour, where critics and television program sellers both gather in a Beverly Hills hotel to consider what is happening across networks, lots was made over hacker “Elliot Anderson” of USA’s new TV series Mr. Robot, while the highly anticipated, if not wholly endorsed 4th Lisebeth Salander novel The Girl in the Spider’s Web is set to be released next month, starring Stieg Larsson’s tatted and pierced female super hacker.
A beautiful twist on a classic contoured hood, featuring our exclusive textured damask latex.
One of our competitors (no, we won’t name who) just published their “Latex trends 2026.” It’s an interesting assessment, some of which we agree with…and some not. But as we have always tried to keep up with fashion trends, be they latex, or any other respectable alt. fashion, we will surely champion the article’s pronouncement …
A latex catsuit, (and plenty of other fashions in a new video), Nicole Kidman’s gam, and Madonna bouncing back post her outfits going missing at Coachella, all make this little news round up. Speaking about The Devil Wears Prada 2 as we did last time (and a few blogs before) have you seen Lady Gaga …
You might catch a modern-day diva on stage strutting in a latex top. Spy some ‘influencer’ on their phone posting to millions. Catch an A-list (or even D-list) celebrity walking the crowd, as much as stepping from an even tent. You might even swipe some swag from a pop-up shop. Whatever one might get into …
Wishing, as we always do, that we might see some latex among all the celebrities who walk its red carpet, we’re not sure how to take the announcement of the official 2026 Met Gala dress code this year being “Fashion Is Art.” A natural couture outgrowth of the museum’s Costume Art exhibition, opening on the …
“I wear a latex dress at least once a week. Like, where do you guys think the baddie went?” Kylie Jenner made the above statement to Dazed Magazine last May, and whether she’s a ‘baddie’ or not, she surely does wear latex a lot. As do her sisters. And Kylie and her half-sister, Kim Kardashian, …
Yes, sometimes a piece of latex lingerie is all one needs to make a statement. Twenty-two-year-old Canadian singer Tate McRae just posted some pictures across her @/gavingram account. In one, she is wearing some heart-stopping latex lingerie. If this woman hasn’t made a statement before, and she did as a finalist on Canada’s So You …
Be it Daily News pics of cosplayers dressed in their latex, lace, and PVC, blogs about toy debuts, or celebrity-filled panels talked over on various YouTube shows, New York Comic Con 2025 just passed, and the reviews and reveals are in. As expected, when it comes to cosplay dress up, tons of fans came to …
We held a hopeful chance of catching some latex couture when we reported on Lady Gaga’s opening day set at the Coachella festival this summer. And we did see some in the stage costumes the Queen of the Little Monsters wore at that UK summer show, a preview of her UK/American Mayhem Ball Tour. Just …
Have you ever wanted to be, or are you now, a latex or alternative fashion model? The organizers of Vancouver Fetish Weekend have issued a call for models for their headline fashion show. The big fashion reveal runway event is part of the city’s largest annual gathering of kink, fashion, and alternative art, and you …
Surely, we love her for her music but we also have to applaud Lady Gaga on her choice of couture, lots of it lots of the time, latex. Most recently, on the heels of the release of her new album Mayhem, the Little Monsters mother showcased some scrumptious latex costuming in her Abracadabra music video, which …
On the shiny latex heels of Kylie Jenner partnering her KHY brand with latex designer Poster Girl (which we alerted you to last week), the Jenner sister shared a candid Q&A, while wearing a skin-tight tight latex dress. Kylie declared that yes, she’d wear this very same dress when picking her kids up from school, …
As we usually do at the end of each year, it’s time to take a look back at what we saw in latex couture, be it on a red carpet, some new superhero movie cosplayers will be suited up soon to emulate, a music video, across a fashion show runway or for just the everyday …
Be they cloth, leather and lace, PVC, full-on latex wardrobes, or a combination of any of the textiles (or none at all) this time of year lots of us start to wonder what costumes will be trending for 2024. We know almost every costume shop, cultural blog, and even high-end couture site weighs in with …
We have seen some fantastically talented latex designers, models, magazines, portals, yearly events, and latex makers come and go through the years. There are a multitude of reasons why one person stays in business, in any business, and lots of time that has nothing to do with what a person does or even how they …
Coming off these two of our latest latex couture blogs So, Did Nike Break The Olympics? – Dawnamatrix and Nike sexualizes Paris? – Dawnamatrix this new piece from NBC, just published Olympic Gymnastics: Simone Biles & Team USA’s Paris leotard sneak peek (nbcnews.com), presents a nice new and positive spin on the games’ couture. In particular, …
Getting past all the blogs, tweets, and amateur fashionista assessments of the outfits worn—be they latex, leather, or the current nude dress rage—here is our perspective of the 2024 BET Awards couture. Two latex wardrobes stand out as do the seven different changes host Taraji P. Henson spun through and even a controversial clutch moment. …
It’s not that Dojo Cat hasn’t been sporting electrifying costumes on her Scarlet Tour so far, but she showed a certain aplomb in an old London town just recently wearing latex. For this one show, the “Agora Hills” singer stepped on stage in a skin-color (and skintight) latex bodysuit, under a stunning translucent latex trench. …
Night Club, an electronica group for L.A. is using latex—once again— for full fantastic effect in the video for their new release “Barbwire Kiss.”
And less we forget, Zendaya’s red carpet appearance with Timothée Chalamet in Seoul, South Korea recently.
We will even skirt around the shiny and lubed 800lb. gorilla in the room when we don’t find any latex wardrobe to drool over by reporting on some other kind of alternative fashion that might make our grade
As ever, we found some serious, some silly, but all interesting nuggets to report for the beginning of August.
Having worked often with global designers, be they makers of latex couture or working with a host of other textiles, we are ever so appreciative and interested in world couture.