CHARLOTTE TG and ALEXANDRA HOUSTON, soon to co-host The Sunday Slick 02, captured taking a short breather during the event’s debut on May 10 at FYEO (photo: Tony Mitchell)
Sunday Slick 02: September 13 preview + May 10 launch report
ON SEPTEMBER 13, Torture Garden and Charmskool will co-host The Sunday Slick 02, the second edition of their new collab for 2026. Successor to a decade of Le Boutique Bazaar afternoons, it offers a revised concept with longer hours, featuring more emphasis on the social, fashion and entertainment sides – including an evening party – and less on the original retail activities. Tony Mitchell covered the new event’s May debut and combines a report on it (including 75+ photos) with full programme details for September’s sequel.
BANNER: Broke Boutique fashion show at The Sunday Slick debut (photo: Tony Mitchell)
The Sunday Slick, 2026’s official successor to a decade of Le Boutique Bazaar ‘shopping and socialising’ Sunday afternoons, returns for its second outing on September 13 at LBB’s old — but now revamped — London venue, For Your Eyes Only.
The Sunday Slick made its debut at FYEO on May 10 this year. Prior to this, LBB had lain dormant for a year, while co-hosts Charlotte TG of Torture Garden and Alexandra Houston of Charmskool considered ideas for developing the event to accommodate the changes in taste they’d observed.
They decided that the Sunday Slick should put more emphasis on the social side of things, with fashion shows and other attractions, opening hours extended to accommodate an evening party, and less focus on retail
exhibitors — although the new event will still accommodate 20+ of the latter.
The promotion of the new event’s May debut also appeared to mark an upgrade in Torture Garden’s visible support for it.
Whereas LBB felt like a ‘side’ TG project in terms of marketing and ticket sales, the Sunday Slick has, from the start, had the full official muscle of the Torture Garden organisation behind it — including detailed listings on the TG website and socials, and tickets sales handled by Dice.fm.
You’ll find full programme details for September 13’s Sunday Slick 02 on Page 2 of this article, along with more galleries from its May 10 debut, and principal links for more information and tickets.
A look-back at The Sunday Slick’s May 10 debut
CUSTOMER takes his purchase from Dutch leather brand Provocateur’s stand (photo: Tony Mitchell)
The May launch attracted a decent-sized crowd keen to check out the new vibes on offer in FYEO’s extensive — and extensively refurbished — basement premises, which boast new bar areas and a big new pole-dancing stage large enough for catwalk-style fashion shows and other performances.
The vendors’ stalls were spread around the front and centre parts of the venue, with the rear area now divided into several semi-private seated areas suitable for relaxing, socialising or hosting small-scale demos and workshops. Those turning up for The Sunday Slick 02 in September can probably expect a similar layout.
The overall impression of folk I spoke to who had previously supported LBB events at FYEO was that people really liked both the new features of the venue (which also has new toilets, plus a working lift that makes the basement fully accessible) and the overall shift towards socialising/shows and attractions/partying as the primary focus.
LETITIA DELISH’s May 10 performance certainly got some points across (photo: Tony Mitchell)
The big new stage allowed for May 10’s featured designers — Kerris Spencer, Riot Pony and Broke Boutique — to showcase their fashions ‘in the round’ to great effect, while cabaret artist Letitia Delish used the space to give full vent to their non-binary alt-drag latex-clad performance style. (Galleries from the shows are at the bottom of this page.)
Of the other attractions, experiences and sideshows scheduled for the event, I managed to catch only a couple, so I’m hoping to improve on this at The Sunday Slick 02 on September 13.
One I did catch gave me a chance to chat with old pal, latex couturier Amy Statik, who had been invited to host a ‘walk-up’ latex repair service at the event (as she also does at some Charmskool Showroom evening events).
Across from Amy’s installation, at the front of the venue’s raised rear floor, another installation featured artist Inky Layla, who was busy creating a portrait of a woman in a semi-trans latex dress. I checked that both were happy to be photographed and thus got some ‘candid’ artist-and-model-style shots.
INKY LAYLA: set to create more visitor portraits at Sunday Slick 02 (photo: Tony Mitchell)
It was great to see the artist, above, wearing (and looking great in) the same kind of fetish gear her subjects might wear, which led me to suspect there might be a silent ‘K’ at the front of her name. She’ll be back for Sunday Slick 02 doing more visitor portraits.
In the repurposed, partly-curtained-off spaces behind Layla, I stumbled first upon an area that accommopdated an ornate BDSM ‘throne’ and other wooden furniture items at one end (provided, I believe, by Charnskool seller Rough + Ready). I snapped various people using the throne as a prop to pose with, but guessed the space might also later accommodate demos and workshops.
Other areas of the raised rear floor had comfortable seating that people were using for relaxing and socialising.
When I set out to do a tour of the designers’ stalls (now known as the Charmskool Makers’ Market), the distribution of fewer stalls around the venue certainly made connecting with and photographing stallholders and their displays a different experience from the old LBB days.
My tour provided an opportunity to catch up with another old pal, PVC accessory queen Ada Zanditon. Ada is always busy with customers at such events — something that requires a journo hoping for a chat to know when to shut up and step aside so that actual business can be conducted.
Some friendly folk I hadn’t met before were the owners of Dutch harnesswear brand Provocateur, whose black leather creations appeared in sombre (but smart) BDSM-ish contrast to Zanditon’s bright rainbow colours.
When I arrived at the third harnesswear display, this time of intricate leather pieces created by Cursed London (many with lattice- like ‘cage’ styling), I did sense a bit of a theme emerging for the vendors Alexandra had chosen to participate in this first Sunday Slick.
There was definitely a focus on retailers of accessories and smaller items that might, theoretically at least, be more attractive impulse purchases for Sunday afternoon ‘social shoppers’ than, say, the pricier latex outfits that used to be on offer from some well-known designers at Le Boutique Bazaar.
Other accessory-offering brands showing at the Sunday Slick debut included ELF Zhou and Nes Noir, while The Loussine, Miss Thing and Painkiller Clothing all featured accessories and/or small separates/skimpy clubwear prominently in their respective product displays.
Most noticeable by its absence on May 10 was latex design, with upcycled rubber specialist Broke Boutique seemingly the fabric’s most prominent standard-bearer in attendance. But will there be more latex and/or rubber at Sunday Slick 02?
I know that Broke Boutique will be returning and Latexcellence will be joining the upcoming Makers’ Market. But at the time of writing, details of all 20+ sellers were still awaited. When I have the full September Market list, I will add it as an update to this article — and we should know the answer.
It’s only fair to add that while Charmskool does feature plenty of clothing brands (including latex), it is probably most celebrated for its designer accessories and clubbable separates. So it is quite reasonable for The Sunday Slick to reflect that same focus in its Charmskool Makers’ Market.
And by the way, anyone who fancies a preview of the myriad designer delights from which the Sunday Slick 02 Makers’ Market will be chosen might like to know that the Charmskool Shop website has just undergone a very attractive visual and functional revamp that’s well worth a visit!
AMY STATIK: available at the first Sunday Slick to repair people’s latex (photo: Tony Mitchell)
I would also like to offer a suggestion to designers taking stalls at the September Sunday Slick and beyond.
Although as stallholders you will understandably be hoping to make sales to visitors on the day, there is another benefit of exhibiting that some of you could be taking more advantage of.
The Sunday Slick 02 will once again attract photographers and videographers potentially interested in shooting views of your stands. But quite a few of your stands do not include sufficiently visible branding for your businesses.
A sign, plaque or a banner positioned within your product display area has a fair chance of getting your branding included in photos or videos that people shoot. Which is free advertising for you further down the line.
It doesn’t need to be excessive in size — just big enough to be legible from further away than a few inches. Ensuring you do this in future would be really helpful to visitors — including we media people trying to report on the event and potentially give you free promo!
CURSED LONDON leaves no one in any doubt with its stand branding! (photo: Tony Mitchell)
That said, I’ll wrap up this look-back at May 10 by noting that those who particularly valued the social aspect of LBB events — and whose views very much influenced the change of emphasis introduced with The Sunday Slick — are unlikely to be disappointed by the vibes they encounter on September 13.
Those visiting and participating in the May 10 debut definitely ensured a reprise of the warm, chatty, friendly atmosphere of LBBs-gone-by. There is no reason to think September’s Sunday Slick 02 vibe will be any different.
Shows: Kerris Spencer + Riot Pony + Broke Boutique + Letitia Delish
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(All gallery inages by Tony Mitchell)
Tags: Designers, Performers, Retail, Social Scene
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