HEEL APPEAL: Onna Sakura (top) teams ainsley-t’s new vegan Mme Ambivalent shoes with latex by Valery Doux-Amer (pic: Mew-Chiel), while Lady Bellatrix (above) brandishes her Plug boots
From Berlin to Bellatrix, things are afoot at ainsley-t
British shoe designer Stuart Thom added all-synthetic vegan options to his ainsley-t fetish shoe range in time for Onna Sakura and Kari Berg to try them out for photo duo Mew-Chiel during Berlin’s GFB Weekend. Back in Blighty, Lady Bellatrix has been having fun with her Plug boots…
Stuart Thom, designer behind the ainsley-t fetish shoe range, has been pretty busy since we last reported on his activities back in the spring.
He decided then to look at the possibilities of collaborating with designers, performers and photographers at major upcoming fetish weekends such as the German Fetish Ball.
One subsequent outcome was a hook-up with Spanish latex label MadRubb, for whom he provided the footwear worn by its GFB catwalk show models.
He also teamed up in Berlin with photography team Mew-Chiel, aka Michiel Kivits and Lara Aimée, to shoot shoes from the new Mme Ambivalent range on model Onna Sakura and GFB MC Kari Berg, who wore the designer’s Plug Boots on stage during the GFB shows.
You can see our favourite Mew-Chiel shots from Berlin in this article’s ainsley-t by Mew-Chiel gallery.
Other ainsley-t projects since Berlin have focused more on the label’s dominatrix clientèle — enthusiastic wearers of its uniquely-heeled Plug styles (now available with a pointed-toe option).
The new Vegan option introduced across the ainsley-t range (and roughly 20 percent cheaper) found its first customer when vegan domina Countess Von Kink bought a pair of all-synthetic Plug pumps.
And now domina Lady Bellatrix, a Rubber Cult drinking chum of ours, is reported to be wreaking havoc in London with her own pair of Plug boots — stopping only to pose in them for some pictures that have found their way into our ainsley-t assortment, gallery.
Last but not least, following shoe exhibitions in Holland (at Rotterdam’s Kunsthal) and Switzerland (Spielzeug Welten Museum, Basel), Stuart created a very special pair of Austrian-themed shoes for the SHOEting Stars — Shoes in Art and Design exhibition at Vienna’s KunstHausWien.
The unique white ‘schoko-pump’ Plug pumps feature a small tongue-shaped tray which accommodates a single Mozartkugeln chocolate from Konditorei Fürst — “to comment”, says the designer, ”on the relationship between the erotic power of the foot and the sensual connotations of food”.
December 3, 2014
Tags: Retail, Shoes
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