MADAME CARAMEL, co-host with Miss Tess of Fetish Weekend London, a new four-day kink celebration scheduled to take place over Easter this year
Fetish Weekend London: new UK kink fest set for Easter debut
FEBRUARY COVER STORY: We welcome the arrival of a new annual fetish fest when Fetish Weekend London makes its debut this Easter. The four-day festival, at various Shoreditch locations, starts with a kinky bus tour and will offer a programme of parties, workshops, high teas and a two-day fetish fair hosted by Charmskool, plus an official hotel that was previously a magistrates’ court and still has the cells. Tony Mitchell summarises all the info currently available for this Fetishistas preview. Banner: Co-host Miss Tess (second right) with FWL guests (l-r) Arno Von Detritus, Mistress Lorraine and Miss Ruby Alexia
Fetish Weekend London is set to make its debut over Easter Weekend 2026 at various venues in Shoreditch, east London.
The event, on April 2–5, aims to fill the gap left after the capital’s earlier annual kink fest, London Fetish Weekend, made its final appearance in October 2019.
While Fetish Weekend London’s debut is set to provide the capital with a varied programme of daytime and nighttime events, as LFW did before it, the new festival’s hosts — Madame Caramel and Mistress Tess — have emphasised that Fetish Weekend London is
“a newly created event, not a revival of earlier brands”.
This is important to establish, given that the new event was initially launched last summer under the (old) title London Fetish Weekend — a move that surprised the original LFW’s organisers, who objected strongly.
The result was a minor rebranding of the new event as Fetish Weekend London, which not only works just as well as a name, but also allows the new event to make its entrance untroubled by confusion about its lineage.
FWL 2026’s main venue: 83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch
INTERIOR and exterior views of Shoreditch venue 83 Rivington Street, Fetish Weekend London’s main venue where its parties and workshops will take place
FWL’s first outing this Easter is conceived to bring together education, performance, fashion, nightlife and community in what the hosts call “a carefully curated celebration of consensual fetish expression”.
The programme includes parties, a fetish ball, workshops and a two-day fetish fair hosted by Charmskool, all bookended by a kinky bus tour on Day 1 and a femdom high tea and play party on Day 4.
Main venue for the weekend will be multi-arch Shoreditch location 83 Rivington Street, just off Shoreditch High Street. This venue
will feature a walk-in shop provided by main event sponsor ÜberKinky, offering a large selection of fetish, BDSM, and extreme toys throughout the weekend.
Another, recently refurbished Shoreditch venue will be the location for the separate FWL Fetish Fair on Easter Friday and Saturday.
So far, the public face of FWL, as represented by its fetishweekendlondon.com website, suggests it leans fairly heavily towards the interests of the BDSM/play communities — not that surprising, given that its two hosts come from that world.
The FWL vibe: somewhere between DomCon and TG?
CROSS-SECTION of guests who’ve confirmed appearances at Fetish Weekend London this Easter
At time of writing, the vast majority of people confirmed as FWL guests on its website are mistresses.
In comparison, the ‘guest’ pages of events like Berlin’s German Fetish Ball Weekend tend to focus on the numerous fetish models attending the event and walking in the GFB fashion shows.
At first glance, therefore, this might suggest Fetish Weekend London’s debut is aiming for something more akin to America’s DomCon weekends, which are designed to attract dominatrixes and those who’d like to get close to them.
However, given the London setting and the cutting-edge fetish partying environment it will be launching into, the new weekend could potentially morph into more of a hybrid of DomCon and Torture Garden event styles.
It may be disappointing to a few that the Easter Weekend dates chosen for FWL’s debut clash directly with the Easter Fetish Meeting happening from April 1 to 6 (with the main action on 3–6) in Essen, Germany.
But there is probably only minimal crossover between FWL’s target audience for their new event and EFM’s usual crowd.
Fetish Fair venue: familiar haunt with a fresh facelift
REFURBISHED interior views of For Your Eyes Only, the old LBB venue that will house FWL’s Fetish Fair hosted by Charmskool
A factor that will doubtless play into the balance between femdom and fashion at FWL is that Fetish Weekend London’s two-day Fetish Fair is being curated by Alexandra Houston, celebrated Charmskool chief and co-founder of Le Boutique Bazaar.
Anyone familiar with LBB, the Charmskool website or the new Charmskool Showroom in Shadwell, London E1, will know that, when
it comes to clothing and accessories, Alexandra has a supreme talent for sniffing-out and showcasing the most stylish kink and kink-adjacent brands.
This should make the eight-hour Fair on Friday and Saturday’s four-hour Fair, both of which are set to include fashion presentations as well as vendor stands, a must-do for fetish fashionistas.
NEW DUNGEON space at FYEO, kitted out by Charmskool sellers Eyes Overload, Rough + Ready and House of SXN
And for anyone who has previously enjoyed the unique vibe of Le Boutique Bazaar at its old For Your Eyes Only (FYEO) venue on City Road, a special treat lies in store.
Because the FWL 2026 Fetish Fair will take place at the newly refurbished FYEO venue, which now boasts a dungeon-themed room styled by Charmskool sellers Eyes Overload, Rough + Ready and House of SXN.
Sadly this doesn’t mean that Le Boutique Bazaar will be returning to FYEO to continue its residence there any time soon. It’s complicated, I’m afraid.
But the two-day fair over Easter should certainly give an idea of what things would look like at FYEO if LBB did return.
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