Taking place as usual at sumptuous Shoreditch venue McQueen, the event — tagged Valentine’s Decadence — opens its doors on Sunday January 31 between 1pm and 7pm to offer visitors a curated selection of around 40 designers representing ‘all things daring’.

Le Boutique Bazaar is jointly produced by Torture Garden, in the personage of Charlotte TG, and by pop-up powerhouse Wasted Chic, whose proprietrix is Alexandra Houston.

Popping up three or four times a year since its launch in September 2014, LBB has become a prime London destination for stylists, performers, naughty kittens, dramatic fashionistas, fetishistas and curious people of all types.

With its alt-fashion and young designer-orientated ethos, it offers a substantially different shopping experience from the regular monthly fetish fairs within and outside the capital.

As one regular LBB vendor quipped: “The typical visitor is young, female, dressed to impressed and actually looking to spend money. It’s refreshingly bereft of ponytailed blokes with whips dangling from their leather jeans.”

Currently Boutique Bazaar provides the best opportunity outside the expos of the major German fetish weekends to see the offerings of multiple latex labels under one roof, and meet the designers behind various UK brands.

Currently Le Boutique Bazaar provides the best opportunity outside the big German expos to see the offerings of multiple latex labels under one roof

And though latex clothing firms may make up only about a quarter of the total number of vendors at a typical LBB event, the vast majority of other exhibitors are offering stuff very much compatible with a fetish look.

At the Boutique Bazaar Valentines event, McQueen’s three floors will feature couture latex, custom corsetry, exotic jewellery, elegant millinery, luxury leather accessories and kinky toys galore.

Designers will be selling items for immediate purchase on the day, but will also be taking pre-orders, allowing you a chance to meet them, see garments in the flesh and discuss different options. It should all make purchasing that perfect ‘special item’ even easier!