Charmskool Showroom opens in London just in time for Valentine’s Charmskool Showroom, the first permanent retail venue for avant garde and erotic specialist Charmskool, has its soft launch in East London on Wednesday February 12, just in time for Valentine’s Weekend. We find out from Charmskool chief...
John Willie: A Bizarre Life – a fine new biography from Jane Garrett NEW YEAR 2025 COVER (with revisions to page 4 added on Jan 3): Despite the extent of his influence both on fetish culture and mainstream fashion, John Willie – creator of 1950s magazine Bizarre, cartoon heroine Gwendoline and much...
Le Boutique Bazaar marks 10 years as London’s cool kinky pop-up shop DECEMBER COVER STORY: London’s alt/fetish pop-up Le Boutique Bazaar celebrates its official 10th Birthday on December 1. To celebrate this major milestone, we’ve brought our December cover story forward a few days. That way we can tell...
DuRose Dining debuts with kinky dinner at posh private London club November 29 marks the London debut of Zara DuRose’s new venture DuRose Dining, at a private members’ club in the heart of the posh St James’s club district. The evening will combine fine dining and immersive entertainment with after-hours...
Abduction film: Yaz battles against repression, censorship and theft NOVEMBER COVER STORY: Since its release in April, Yaz’s Abduction film short, based on her experiences of being institutionalised at age 15, has had more than 250,000 YouTube views – an official mark of commercial success on the platform....
Alexandra Houston: Charmskool supremo plans world domination! OCTOBER COVER STORY: Alexandra Houston is the brains behind London alt/fetish pop-up Le Boutique Bazaar and the more recently launched Charmskool, a retail platform that combines its founder’s deep love of fetish and fashion with her substantial...
Charmskool House: one-off Soho event during London Fashion Wk Charmskool House, at a secret Soho venue on September 14, is a one-off during London Fashion Week hosted by Charmskool’s Alexandra Houston, co-host of Le Boutique Bazaar. This fetish and ‘sex-positive adjacent’ evening will feature art and photo...
S+ Association: new UK trade org launched for sex-positive events AUGUST COVER STORY: London saw the launch in June of S+ Association, a not-for-profit trade organisation for the UK’s sex-positive events industry. Founded by a group of event organisers and welfare monitors, S+ aims to establish shared...
Yummy Gummy resurfaces! Sheet latex brand finds German buyer Legendary British custom latex sheeting and clothing brand Yummy Gummy – supplier of custom patterns and colour-mixes to numerous latex fashion labels – is finally set to reappear under new German owners, after more than a year on the market....
