Breathless is the latest London latex label to announce a summer sale.

It is offering 20 percent off any orders made online or at its Kings Cross store between now and July 26.

Visitors to the store, at 131 Kings Cross Road, London W1X 9BJ, will also find further reductions of up to 50 percent on selected stock. Opening hours are 11am-7pm Monday-Saturday.

The label warns that deliveries of sale orders may take longer than usual owing to the high volume of orders at sale time. Customers are advised to allow six to eight weeks for orders to be shipped.

The Breathless sale ends on Monday July 26 at midnight GMT.

The Los Angeles fetish and BDSM community is mourning the death of Ila Packman, an artist and photographer whose work has chronicled the events and parties of the LA scene over the past few years.
Packman was named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the victims of a high profile pair of robbery homicides at medical marijuana dispensaries on Thursday June 25. Packman, 39, was an employee at Hollywood Holistic store in the 1600 block of North El Centro Avenue.
From 2007 to the end of 2009, Packman was a regular photographer at Masque, Club Hell, The Bondage Ball and many other LA events. According to his ModelMayhem profile, he had a love of photography that started at the age of three.
Clearly something of a controversialist, Packman coined the slogan The answer to domestic violence is consensual domestic violence on a range of his own merchandise, sold through cafepress.com.
His business partner, Gaston, may be contacted through his website.

FetishGuerilla and other well-known Berlin fetish organisations are co-hosting the first Berlin Fetish Weekend in the German capital on May 21-23.

Berlin fetish club promoters, venues, stores and designers have teamed up to provide a varied programme of events over the Whitsun weekend — the slot previously occupied by the German Fetish Ball, which has moved to Hamburg.

The aim is to continue to provide a good a reason for fetish people to visit Berlin for a kinky Whit weekend, while keeping costs down to admission prices better suited to Berlin pockets.

Starting out hosting Revolution as a once-yearly preparty for the GFB, FetishGuerilla is now an established part of the Berlin club scene, with regular bi-monthly parties at the legendary KitKat.

After drawing audiences in excess of 1,000 to its last two GFB parties, Revolution on Saturday May 22 at KitKat will be the centrepiece of this year’s schedule. Fetish performers include Plastique in Veins, plus there’s live music from Doomsday Diva and Revolution’s usual mix of hot European DJs. Tickets are €20 on the door.

Friday May 21 sees the BFW kick off at 9pm with Chat Noir, a burlesque evening at Equipage, a “lounge for fetish play and art” located in old stable buildings, known to many as the venue of Darkside Club.

The same evening also offers, from 10pm, an Education Play-themed night at Gargoyle Berlin, a “small but smart” SM club offering three well equipped play areas near Platz der Luftbrücke in the centre of the city.

Saturday 22 starts at 11am with an event at BFW Headquarter Showroom, about which unfortunately we have no information in English.

Saturday’s schedule originally included two three-hour tours by the crfriends-Fetishbus which was to cruise around the city with onboard music and dancing and stop at various fetish shops and clubs. But we’ve now heard that the bus has broken down and won’t be fixed in time, so this element of the programme has unfortunately been cancelled.

Saturday’s clubbing begins at 9pm with Menage à Trois at Equipage, followed at 10pm by the choice of a Corset Party at Gargoyle (featuring outfits by Private Zone Corsets, conveniently situated right next door), or Berlin Fetish Inferno, taking place at Insomnia, another club familiar to many from previous GFB weekends.

Fetish Inferno features DJs Clark Kent and Jumble, kinky performance from DoubleTrouble and a choice of dancing, cocktails, cinema, whirlpool, massage or fun in the SM play areas. Admission prices are as follows: couples €22, men €17 and women €12.

Saturday’s headlining FetishGuerilla Revolution party (details above) starts at KitKat at 11pm.

Sunday 23 starts (optimistically, some may think) at 11am with a fetish brunch organised by crfriends at the Red Rooster bar. Cost per person is €7 for the buffet, plus drinks, and there’s no dresscode.

At 2pm, the legendary Residenz Avalon on the Havel, on the edge of the city, hosts an SM fleamarket and a “relaxed-bizarre chillout by the Havel”.

The Residenz, which has previously hosted GFB play parties, is a listed former Prussian gun factory converted into a BDSM fantasy location rather in the style of the OWK, complete with underground cells, a large 100-capacity event hall, a large, secluded courtyard, and a terrace and landing stage on the waterside.

Admission to the fleamarket is free, providing an excellent opportunity to check out this unique establishment for a potential future pervy holiday.

Closing the weekend party programme on Sunday night is Danse Dangereux — a dance and play night at Equipage starting at 9pm.

Although this first Berlin Fetish Weekend does not include a GFB-style fetish fair, Sunday’s fleamarket at Avalon is by no means the only kinky shopping opportunity offered by this brand new fetish fest.

Most of Berlin’s pervy stores and designers are participating at their own locations, many with extended weekend opening hours and some staging little events on their premises.

Berlin stores and designers taking part this year are: Berli-Gum, BFW Headquarter Showroom, Biank Rodalquilar, Blackstyle, Fantastic Rubber, Hautnah, McHurt, NoNón de Florette, Peitschenhandel, Private Zone Corsets, Rubaddiction, Savage-Store, Schwarze Mode, Schwarzer Reiter, TABEA Design, The Feisty Cat Store, Très Bonjour and XtraX.

We’re not going to tell you which designer is promising free champagne to every weekender who turns up at her showroom in case she regrets her generosity. But you can probably find out by checking the links to the participating stores on the BFW’s website!