Skin Two Magazine – Order the New Issue 62
October 27, 2011 by webslave · 5 Comments
Many of you will know that Skin Two Magazine – published since 1984 – is a beautifully designed 100-page glossy style mag, collected around the world by lovers of sophisticated, sexy fetish fashion, nightlife, features and news.
The new Skin Two issue 62 is out now, featuring photo spreads of the most sophisticated latex fashion from Mademoiselle Ilo and HMS Latex of Paris, Abigail Greydanus of Los Angeles, Jane Doe and Kaori’s Latex Dreams of London, Dawnamatrix and more. Read more
Sidonia von Bork and the Bondage Dolly – Live Show
October 27, 2011 by webslave · 2 Comments
Sidonia von Bork is one of England’s top dominatrixes, owner of a famous female domination website and a talented photographer under the alias “Ariel Belle” Read more
Alix Fox at Skin Two Halloween Ball on Saturday
October 26, 2011 by webslave · 2 Comments
The fabulous Miss Alix Fox of Bizarre Magazine is our MC at Skin Two Halloween Ball this Saturday 29th October… Read more
Mistress Sparkly at Skin Two Halloween Ball
Mistress Sparkly is an award winning face and body artist, who has experience in most forms of body decoration, ranging from delicate freehand glitter designs, liquid latex clothing, to blood and gore for more macabre events! Read more
Boudicca Blue Bodyart exhibition at Skin Two Halloween Ball 2011
You won’t have seen body art like this before… Fiona Patterson Fraser and Jules Bentley are both successful artists who work with fashion designers, film directors and music artists to create body art of the highest standard. Entering the World Body Painting Competition in Austria, they reached the finals at their first attempt. Read more
Skin Two Femdom Play Party: Friday 28th October 2011
October 12, 2011 by webslave · 6 Comments
How do you meet a really fabulous dominant woman? Someone intelligent, highly attractive and totally genuine. Dominant and cruel, of course – but also someone you’d be happy to trust if they had you at their mercy. Which they will. Read more
Lady K’s Burlesque Show at the Skin Two Halloween Ball
Skin Two Halloween Ball is a 3-day programme, with a femdom party on Friday 28th October 2011, the Halloween Ball itself on Saturday 29th – and burlesque on Sunday 30th. To be exact, it’s Lady K’s Burlesque…
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La Nuit Démonia 2011 Paris France
Saturday October 15th 2011: The famous Paris event is at a new location this year. It’s from 8pm right through to 5.30 am and you can get dinner before the shows, which run from 10pm to midnight. Venue is Le Petit Domaine, Route de la Pyramide, 75012 Paris (Metro: Chateau de Vincennes, line 1). Full information here: www.nuit-demonia.com
La Nuit Démonia 2010 photo gallery by Jan FetishClubPix
Helena Eloise – Photography at Skin Two Halloween Ball
October 6, 2011 by webslave · 2 Comments
On October 29th, at Skin Two Halloween Ball, we present the photography of Helena Eloise. Helena graduated from Salford University with a Visual Arts BA (Hons) and worked in the music industry for Manchester’s Airtight and Tangled clubs. Her images have been published in Mix Mag and The Big Issue and her first solo exhibition took place in 2003, in Stockport, with reviews in the Stockport Express and Manchester Evening News.
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Lingerie: A Modern Guide, by Lesley Scott
October 3, 2011 by webslave · Leave a Comment
This is a fabulous book that contains some very interesting facts, pictures and an exciting history of lingerie. The fashion critic and writer, Lesley Scott tells us in the foreword “few items of clothing can so easily create a mood, shift the vibe or set off shivers like the right lingerie.” The first few pages really draw you into the book; the way she explains her love for lingerie in a way that you wouldn’t really think of “perhaps foodie culture is to nutrition what lingerie is to sex: a delicious, extravagant touch of mystery and mastery that makes sex more sensual, less prim and that much more fun.”
To give you a little taster of the kind of thing to expect in this book, I have noted some parts which I found particularly fascinating. The first chapter, called “Lingerie from ancient times to the 19th Century,” offers an insight back to ancient Egyptians. In 3,000 BCE, high-status women in ancient Egypt wore body-conscious under-tunics that fell to the ankle, to show off their position in society, while slaves went naked or wore a loin cloth at most. Moving onto the Minoans, historians found a figurine called the “Snake Goddess,” wearing what could pass as a modern day corset. The “Snake Goddess” was discovered in 1903 by the British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans and at the site where it was found “the typical signs of a male dominated society were simply not present. The archaeological evidence supports the idea that women dominated Minoan culture.”
Leading on to the ancient Greeks and Romans: Roman women wore a strophium (a band belted over and underneath the breasts, made of soft linen between 6 and 8 inches wide and long enough to be wrapped twice around the body). Roman mothers “who were worried that their daughters would overdevelop made make them wear a strophium, as did fashion conscious women who wanted their tunics to drape as flatteringly as possible.”
According to costume historians, the latter half of the 14th century was the starting point of modern fashion, the time when “for women, the tops of their robes dipped ever lower and décolletage emerged, showcasing high, pert breasts. This, combined with a fashionably curved belly and generous hips, was the ideal figure in the Middle Ages, related, naturally to a woman’s ability to bear children.”
Something I found particularly engrossing was about iron corsets of the 16th and 17th century: “their supposed role as tortuous implements of fashion was undoubtedly a tall tale perpetuated by La Vie Parisienne. This racy, somewhat fetishistic turn-of-the-20th century magazine was probably also responsible for the Victorian myth of the chastity belt, for which no hard evidence actually exists” Wouldn’t you just love to have a read of these La Vie Parisienne magazines? It sounds like a very intriguing publication! In case you were wondering about the Iron corsets, scholars now believe they were solely used as orthopaedic or medical corrective devices.
Then, Lesley Scott goes into Victorian dress; “first stripteases were simply women undressing layer by layer down to their chemises and getting into bed” and she covers the innovation in production leading to new lingerie trends.
If you are more attracted to the start of modern lingerie, chapter three includes a bit about the impact of the First World War and the 1920s “as part of the of the war effort, women were asked to give up their corsets in order to free up steel – which they did – willingly providing more than 28,000 tons worth, enough for two battleships”.
After this, Lesley goes into the Second World War and pin up culture, lingerie from the 1960s and in popular culture (film, music and dance). Then up to the very modern day, including Lady Gaga who “uses her lingerie to titillate and control her audience.” One of the very last parts of the book is on the very surprising topic of “Syria’s extraordinary lingerie culture”.
At the end of the book is a very useful guide called “choosing, buying and caring for your lingerie” which includes a great list of lingerie names you should know, gives you info about the companies and the website details, so you can go hunting for the perfect lingerie that you have just learnt the origins of!
Lingerie: A Modern Guide contains a little bit of everything I love: lingerie, fashion, history, film and music. I would recommend this book, even if you don’t have a passion for lingerie but like to learn about history. I’m sure you would still enjoy the book and it is full of great photos and pictures. The other good things about it is that it is a good starting point: if you really like the bit about the middle ages, for example, it might influence you to go and look into this period in more detail and go searching for other books about it.
Review by Roxanne Dorrington
You can buy the book from amazon.com
Lingerie: A Modern Guide, by Lesley Scott
ISBN 9781408127544
Format: Hardback
Dimensions: 164x138mm
Extent: 224 pages
Illustrations: 150+, full colour throughout
Price: £12.99
About the Author: Lesley Scott is a highly regarded fashion critic and the Editor in Chief of Fashiontribes.com, an online magazine and fashion blog. She was one of the first fashion bloggers accredited by the IMG to cover New York Fashion Week, and was previously a Senior Editor at Coolhunt.net and Executive Editor at Stitch Magazine in New York.
