This works whether the garments are a tight or looser fit. In the latter category, Mags is particularly pleased with the collection’s two new jackets — the Sonya Fishnet Biker Jacket and the Astra Organic Structure Lace Biker/Bomber.

“They can be worn not only with latex but mixed with fabric clothing as well,” she says.

Furthermore she believes the emphasis in the Pandora Deluxe Chrysalis collection on “feminine and pretty” styles that are “not like typical fetishwear” makes the garments eminently suitable for wearing outside the usual fetish environment — for example at regular clubs, parties or restaurants.

In fact, she reveals, the eyelash lace styles were actually conceived as a “boutique collection” that could sit happily alongside ‘normal’ lingerie in a luxury undies store. (This also marks the first time Mags has created garments with wholesale specifically in mind).

‘In Berlin I mixed all three patterns together. You can use the eyelash lace to go all classic, or you can use some fishnet, or you can mix it with the organic structure and it works’ 

Check this claim out for yourself in our two galleries dedicated to the Chrysalis Collection, both shot in Berlin during the GFB weekend.

One was shot backstage at the Ball by Christian Gschweng (who is both a photographer and a talented latex designer in his own right). The other was an outdoor location shoot by Swiss photographer Kink Engineer, who also contributed the cover/banner image of Nephilla for this article.

You can read more about Kink Engineer’s work in general, and this shoot specifically, in the dropdown panel at the end of this article.

I feel obliged at this point to add just one small fact he omits from his very readable piece. During the shoot with Mary D and My Little Vronie in the courtyard of an apartment block near the Ball venue, an elderly resident complained about what he assumed was a porn shoot happening on his doorstep.

“You should be so lucky” is what they very sensibly didn’t say to placate him.

When Mags created her first net and lace patterns on the computer, she wasn’t sure whether using all three styles in one collection was a good idea.

“But I decided to mix ’n’ match, and as you saw in Berlin, it actually worked. I mixed all three patterns together to create one look. You can use the classic eyelash lace to go all classic, or you can use some fishnet, or you can mix it with the organic structure and it works.”

Interestingly, when Chapman first began wondering a few years ago about combining her physics/maths academic background with her latex fashion design interests, developing patterns that could be laser-cut was not her initial direction of thought.

“I was actually thinking about going into materials science in the field of ‘soft matter’ where latex and emulsions and paints are,” she explains.

“But that would have meant going back to uni and that wouldn’t have been so interesting. So I decided not to pursue that path.

“Then a couple of years go, looking at architecture and other designs, I came across these geometric patterns that really interested me. I thought, wow this is really amazing, I really wanted to use this!”

What she had discovered were a series of diagrams developed by a Ukrainian mathematician. They were geometric tessellations — a very specific way of tiling shapes without gaps (like wallpaper patterns), also known as generative art.

One of the tiling patterns she discovered was an organic cell-like structure that could be generated mathematically by a computer algorithm.

It enabled her to develop the nature-mimicking pattern that, translated to latex via her laser cutter, would become a key element of the Chrysalis Collection. The result, she feels with no small justification, is akin to wearable art.

This is a fantastic opportunity to get this brand new, state-of-the-art, sexy latex dress at a price you will not find anywhere else, and that will not be offered again by this designer.

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