Coachella Couture Off Stage

Yes, we just reported on Lady Gaga’s set pretty much starting off Coachella 2025 with her 4 set pieces, latex costumes, and music. But there were lots more on hand this first week of the festival than just what was happening on stage when it came to alt. couture….at least in what celebrity audience members …

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Gaga Causes Mayhem@Coachella 2025: Music, Set Pieces…and Yes, Latex!

Did anyone think that the desert heat would deter Lady Gaga from wearing oversized dresses, hats, and boots and leather, lace, and latex? Returning to the infamous Coachella festival for her first time in nearly a decade, Lady Gaga acted very much the Grande Dame headlining the opening day of the music extravaganza with a 20-song …

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Lady Gaga Causes Mayhem

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 …

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Yet Another Latex Couture Round-Up

Once again, we can proudly say there has been a bunch of recent latex couture sightings…. The annual BRIT Awards, celebrating the UK music industry, delivered a bunch of celebs in wonderful latex couture. There was YouTube personality/author/presenter Nikki Lilly in a strapless red maxi latex dress festooned with rhinestones and single leg slit, exuding …

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Abracadabra! It’s Lady Gaga…and Latex

Yes, Lady Gaga, give us our latex! In her brand-new Abracadabra music video, which premiered during the just-past 2025 Grammy awards, the lady who answers her Little Monsters dreams as much as wears a startling array of fantastic costumes (and quite often latex couture) once again thrills us all. Working with a wide variety of …

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Kristin Juszczyk Highly Visible Fashion Moment

Taylor Swift, who we all know is dating Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs (another 2024 Superbowl hopeful), has been seen, and seen plenty on camera during the broadcast, in Kristin’s couture.

Lady Gaga-NYC-Harley Quinn

In the scenes seen, this Harley Quinn wears red lipstick matching her equally bright, tight red blazer with its short sleeves meeting at the elbows.

Academy Award Couture…and

This year’s Oscar telecast of the 95th Academy Awards did not disappoint in this way. But this year, there was much more to style than just what the stars were wearing.

Goodbye Yummy Gummy

Sad as we are to see any latex designer go (competition or not), we were especially saddened to hear that Yummy Gummy Latex is closing up shop.

Steven Klein’s New Book

Steven Klein has reigned as one of our most important photographers/videographers for three decades.

Celebrating Katie Gallagher and Issey Miyake

Although not known for any latex couture, but very important to our culture at large; we just saw the passing of fashion designers Katie Gallagher and Issey Miyake.

Cultural couture 2021

Lil Nas X’s trotted out blood red and black latex, leather, and smoking hot dancing for his “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” and Camila Cabello’s super colorful, sometimes 70’s style-vibe in “Don’t Go Yet.”

It’s All About Gucci

The love parade is just one of many celebrations the design house is holding for its 100 anniversary.

Lady Gaga Gets Jazzy With It

We are so used to seeing Lady Gaga in outrageous outfits, from meat dresses to a wide range of latex couture, to high-end fashions. But, returning to the Park Theater at Park MGM in Las Vegas after a 652-day lay-off, the star of the upcoming “House of Gucci” has taken the strip by storm once again, in her revamped Jazz and Piano residency.

RuPaul makes history

And as of the 73rd Emmy Award show that just passed, RuPaul is now the most-award person of color in Emmy history.

House Of Gucci

The film is directed by Ridley Scott and features Jeremy Irons, Salma Hayek, Al Pacino, and an unrecognizable Jared Ledo.

Dawnamatrix, 2021 WORLD OF WEARABLE ART Finalist!

The WOW show, happening from 30 September to 17 October this year, will be a “most spectacular theatrical stage production, showcasing the finalist entries from around the world, with an audience of over 60,000 people expected to attend.” Finalist designers will vie for awards and prizes across three recurring sections; Aotearoa, Avant-garde, and Open, as well as a new trio of sections; Architecture, Elizabethan Era, and Monochromatic.

Saying Bye-Bye To The Baroness

The Baroness claims she will continue to document and archive her years in the fetish scene through writings, short video histories of fetish luminaries, and maybe even podcasts. In addition, this ‘lady of latex’ will return to designing latex clothes and making clothing as art once she establishes her new workshop at her new home.

Welcome To The House Of Gucci

Opening in November, the new film, directed by Ridley Scott, stars Gaga as Maurizio Gucci’s ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani. Adam Driver plays Maurizio Gucci, the Italian fashion house boss who was assassinated in 1995. Reggiani was convicted of orchestrating his shooting and sentenced to 29 years for the crime.

Inauguration 2021 Couture

PVC, leather, latex, and alternate fashions will probably have no place in today’s inauguration, but haute couture does…as it always has

Predicting Fashions (Alternative and Haute Couture) of 2021

Yes, we are all as much wondering when we might get back to wearing our best leather dress or straight-leg latex trousers for a sultry night on the town as what lasting fashion results might come from the COVID-19 shutdown. In some ways, 2021 might prove more challenging than 2020 when we can get out …

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2020 MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS FASHION: INSIDE AND OUT

o matter if we saw latex jumpsuits, leather-and-lace combinations, or lingerie worn as an accessory, we all knew this year’s VMA’s would be different than any in the show’s three-decade history. Playing across our TVs, tablets, and other streaming devices, the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards came at us all last Sunday night, socially distanced as we all knew it had to be, but still as colorful and wild as ever, inside and out.

Lady Gaga & Ariana grande Make it rain

Have you seen the latex costuming in Lady Gaga’s duet with Ariana Grande, on the video clip for Rain On Me,? Better yet, have you seen the two divas leading a ‘live’ weather report, called “Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande Are The Chromatica Weather Girls”?  Here’s the first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoAm4om0wTs Here’s the second: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZkOxrJHlTE&feature=youtu.be The bespoke …

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Little Richard

We all know what a sexy latex top, a loud sound system and colossal video screen can bring to modern music performance. But without attitude, a singer/performer/modern-day diva (man or woman) is sunk. Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, and so many others would be lost without their particular joie de vivre, no matter what they are …

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Dawnamatrix In The Philadelphia Museum of Art book “Off the Wall: American Art to Wear.”

This article elaborates on WOW’s (The World Of Wearable Art) global importance in an academic context…and quite the global importance the competition holds. Our “Foreign Bodies” outfit, which was awarded the Overall International Design Award, International Award: Americas Winner at the WOW competition in 2018, makes an appearance in the book.  Designing bespoke latex, flattered …

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Stepping Into The Haus Of Gaga, Las Vegas

A few blogs back, we bragged about contributing some latex accessories (gloves to be exact) to a Lady Gaga Haus Of Gaga video campaign. Well, just recently, we had occasion to stop in the Hause Of Gaga store at the Park MGM in Las Vegas. Lady Gaga’s “Enigma” residency shares the Park MGM’s Park Theatre with Aerosmith’s …

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Warner Brothers Studios Tour New Costume Display

Warner Brothers Studios has ‘upped the ante’ on their game recently in what they are showing to the public of their costume collection, allowing the public into view both an Aquaman/Wonder Woman DC collection as well as displaying wardrobe pieces from Crazy Rich Asians and the Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper A Star Is Born.