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Hoods, harnesses, latex: when BDSM dominates fashion trends

2022-04-26T17:41:19.518Z


With latex dresses, hoods and harnesses, the fetishist aesthetic infiltrates fashion, from red carpets to ready-to-wear stores. A phenomenon between frustration and rediscovered pleasure.


This Sunday, March 27, at the Oscars

after party

, Julia Fox walks down the red carpet with bloodshot eyes in a leather dress that mimics a strangulation.

If the sexual reference had escaped you, Julia Fox gives it a layer by posting the photo on her Instagram account to thank the creator.

Her caption: “thank you Han Kjøbenhavn for existing and being my erotic fashion dream”.

Directly invoking sadomasochistic strangulation, the look disturbs.

And spilled a lot of ink.

Sex and clothes, this formula which does not date from yesterday does not lose effectiveness.

On the contrary, it is making a comeback.

«Fetish core»

Like Julia Fox, Dua Lipa in a Versace strap dress at the Grammy Awards, Kim Kardashian at the Met Gala 2021 in a Balenciaga hooded outfit or even Lady Gaga in fishnet stockings and patent ankle boots, to name a few, have recently given in the sadomasochistic register .

Same trend on the catwalks of creators like Ambush, Koché, Richard Quinn, Roberto Cavalli… And nothing suggests a decline in the phenomenon called

“fetish-core”

.

The fashion search engine Tagwalk lists nearly 250 “Dominatrix” silhouettes for the fall-winter 2022 collections, compared to 120 and 89 in previous seasons.

Well established, the movement was, in fact, started decades earlier.

From dungeon to dressing room

In 1971, the punk designer Vivienne Westwood baptized her first boutique "Sex" and, with her provocative creations, became the spearhead of a rebellious counter-culture.

The dialogue between sex and fashion is open and will become the playground of designers like Jean Paul Gaultier and photographers like Robert Mapplethorpe or David Lynch.

Until then reserved for eccentrics, and in the realm of entertainment, fetishist aesthetics are now reaching the wardrobe of ordinary mortals through certain pieces.

No latex suits or zipped hoods on the shelves of mainstream stores, but a harness erected into a star fashion accessory.

How to adopt it?

Tutorials dedicated to styling it flourish on Tiktok.

According to the American shopping application Lyst, searches for “harnesses” on the platform would be growing by 132% per month, those for choker collars, 100% since the beginning of 2022 and those for “latex”, 26%.

But why does fashion suddenly take so much pleasure in pressing where it hurts?

strong sex

The new celebrity of Julia Fox, actress and ex-dominatrix, is no stranger to the resurgence of the fetish trend.

Leather, latex and black pantone are an integral part of his clothing vocabulary during his recurring public appearances.

It is impossible, however, to attribute such influence to her alone.

The BDSM aesthetic is part of a larger trend, that of the post-pandemic advent of the sensual and liberated body.

For

Madame Figaro

, Thomas Zylberman, stylist and trendsetter at the Carlin Creative office deciphered: “We return to a body language that expresses our desire to go towards the other (…) a whole generation of girls discovers that the female body can become a form of empowerment not suffered.

And to find satisfaction in appropriating the body and sexuality, of oneself and of others.

Which is reminiscent of the pleasure mechanisms of sadomasochistic practices.

“Fetish-core”, an aesthetic of rediscovered pleasure.

Source: lefigaro

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