Pleasure Bay 2025: Marquis and SubRosaDictum’s Greek getaway MAY COVER STORY: The newest addition to the relatively niche ‘sun, sea and sand’ genre of fetish getaways will celebrate its fourth year in October when Pleasure Bay 2025 returns to the Greek island of Crete for a another long weekend...
Fade in Decay: Iris Trika, House of Harlot boss and Paris latex couture creator, unveils her new art project MARCH COVER STORY: Fade in Decay is the name of a new artistic collective led by Iris Trika, the designer behind latex labels House of Harlot and Iris Thespider. It launched during London Fashion...
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...
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...
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...
Can Lucha Britannia, wrestling show with fetish roots, survive? MAY COVER STORY: With roots in London’s legendary fetish-friendly Resistance Gallery, comedy wrestling cabaret night Lucha Britannia made it through the loss of its original home as a result of the pandemic, to resurface at Shoreditch...
Yaz: Abduction film fetish fashion tells a true tale of incarceration APRIL COVER STORY: Yaz (Yazmeen Mirgoli) is a director, producer, and multi-disciplinary performance and visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her just-released second album, Persephone, includes the single, Abduction, now followed by a self-directed...
