FASHION
LATEX
Lots of fashion brands are flirting with latex for already a great deal of time now.
Marc Jacobs stays one of our favourites.
EXPO
AZZEDINE ALAÏA
From December 11th,2011 to May 6th,2012 the Groninger Museum will present the exhibition entitled Azzedine Alaïa in the 21st Century. This exhibition displays the most fantastic Alaïa fashion creations of the last ten years. Alaïa is one of the last major couturiers still active. The exhibition is a follow-on to the overview of his work shown in the Groninger Museum in 1998, which was subsequently displayed at the Brant Foundation in New York in 2002.
ISSUE 01
ET ALORS? MAGAZINE
We finally did it! We made the first flamboyant magazine that combines naughtiness with a touch of art, a slice of fetish, a lot of sexiness and a bucket of chic.
A fresh, in-depth and up to date perspective on the world of fun, fashion, fetish, art, gender, literature, gay, bdsm, culture, glamour and icons in more than 250 pages. The magazine is published 3 times a year and in English. Et Alors? features interviews, photos, art and illustrations from an International collection of artists, musicians and cultural catalysts of the highest quality. We fill the gap between a naughty lifestyle, special-interest publications and style. With a high class take on the people and things we love.
CHECK OUT OUR BRANDNEW WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO AND WHERE TO BUY!
FASHION
FOUET BY HERMES
The “Fouet” is a flexible platinum whip shimmering with 3,669 diamonds hangs provocatively around the neck. The tip flicks a shower of diamond light into the decolleté.
A press kit quote:
“Take (the) platinum Fouet necklace, entirely set with diamonds which gives up the arms of brute force in a sparkling band that curls caressingly on the skin. This whip does not command but amorously cajoles. Volte and volte-face: the tables are turned, the whip is tamed and force transformed into beauty. Pleasure is the watchword, leavened by a lashing of wry humour.”
Voilà!
SHOES
NORITAKA TATEHANA
ICONS
ETHEL GRANGER
Ethel Granger, the woman with the smallest waist in the history of mankind, was a product of fashion and sexual fetish. Her husband, astronomer William Arnold Granger, believed that fashion influenced the structure of our most intimate thoughts: women that he found “flat chested results” of 1920s fashion were the byproduct of a perversion far more grave, according to him, than his obsession with small-waists.
Read more on the Italian Vogue website:
www.vogue.it
Read more about Ethel Granger:
www.ethelgranger.com
MOVIE
LADY GAGA
As part of her Monster Ball world tour, Lady Gaga with Nick Knight and Ruth Hogben created a number of films to use as part of her on-stage performance and as interludes in the epic show.
Check out some gorgeous bondage gear.
MOVIE
SPECIAL TREATMENT
Isabelle Huppert is at it again. In “Special Treatment,” this mesmerizing French star with a history of playing sexually transgressive women (a sadomasochistic musician in “The Piano Teacher,” an incestuous mother in “Ma Mère”) portrays Alice Bergerac, a naughty prostitute whose clients engage her in elaborate role-playing fantasies.
For paedophiliac john, Alice dresses up as a little girl, clutches a teddy bear and sucks on a lollipop. For another client, she dons a blindfold and crams a ball gag into her mouth while awaiting his arrival. One of them is Xavier, the bumbling Lacanian psychoanalyst destined to change her life.
Directed by Jeanne Labrune
GOODIES
LOUIS VUITTON
FASHION
MURRAY AND VERN
“Pain is a close-up; happiness, a long shot.”
Photography - Peter Ashworth
Model - Lucifire & Kate
Hair & makeup - Norah Nona
Clothes & art direction - Murray & Vern
www.ashworth-photos.com
www.murrayandvern.com
www.noranona.com
UTRECHT (NL) - EVENT
GET A ROOM!
Get a room! is a series of film screenings at Cultdealerenzo, in one of the wharf cellars of Utrecht. It’s an evening where we show films, documentaries, shorts and much more about sex. Every month Get a room! screens a different interesting, relevant or unexpected film about for example feminist and sex on the silver screen, porn from back in the days, masculinity, polyamory, BDSM or sex work. Plus always a different fitting guest within the subject.
August 26: Feminist Sex
Guests of the evening: Jennifer Lyon Bell (Blue Artichoke Films) & Liandra Dahl
September 15: Men Exposed: Man & Sex
Guest of the evening: Jan van Breda
MOVIES
BLUE ARTICHOKE FILMS
Do check out Blue Artichoke Films. A small group of film enthusiasts dedicated to making artistic, unusual erotic films that portray sexuality in an emotionally realistic way. Whether documentary, fiction, or experimental, Blue Artichoke films borrows from traditional film languages and styles to represent sexuality in new ways.
“The most important reason we make erotic film has nothing to do with commerce, but because we want to make films that we ourselves would really like to see. We want to feel characters from the inside, get lost, and come out the other side breathless and aroused.”
GOODIES
GIVENCHY
FASHION
ZANA BAYNE
Born in Seattle, studied conceptual art in San Francisco, briefly lived in Berlin, and now residing in New York.
All leather pieces are 100% hand crafted by Bayne out of her studio in Brooklyn.
Site:www.zanabayne.com
Online Shop:shop.zanabayne.com
Blog:www.garbagedress.com
PHOTOGRAPHY
FRANCOIS NARS
Make-up artist Francois Nars photographs Marc Jacobs in tomato red lipstick and nail polish.
www.narscosmetics.com
www.marcjacobs.com
FETISH
VINCENT GALLO
Just to let you know. In case some of you readers have a Famous Face Fetish.
“I, Vincent Gallo, star of such classics as Buffalo 66 and The Brown Bunny have decided to make myself available to all women. All women who can afford me, that is. For the modest fee of $50,000 plus expenses, I can fulfill the wish, dream, or fantasy of any naturally born female. The fee covers one evening with Vincent Gallo.”
Don’t forget to send us a report afterwards!
Book here: www.vgmerchandise.com
SHOOT
LA MAITRESSE DU PIRATE
La Maîtresse du Pirate, photoshoot by Bram de Ceurt.
VINTAGE
IRVING KLAW
Irving Klaw (November 9, 1910 - September 3, 1966) was an American photographer and filmmaker and best-known for operating a mail-order business selling photographs and film of attractive women (sometimes in bondage) from the 1940s to the 1960s. He was one of the first fetish photographers, and his model Bettie Page became the first famous bondage model.
VENUES
COUCHSURFING
La Maîtresse du Pirate created a CouchSurfing group.
A group for BDSM and fetish travellers and fetish-friendly couch surfers all over the world. For those who wish to find a couch somewhere or are straight-but-not-narrow and would like to offer one!
For bisexual, BDSM, gay, lesbian, fetish, queer, pan, asexual and transgender people looking for a safe haven.
Feel free to join us here:
www.couchsurfing.org/pirates
FETISH
WOOL SUITS
We are entering into a whole new era of bizarre with the discovery of wool fetishists. While you might look at an over-sized angora sweater and think of your grandma, these individuals do the happy dance.
The full-body wool suits have special (there is no way to say this politely) “love holes” located for pleasure.
SHOP
HELMUT NEWTON
BONDAGE X-RAY
The foundation of world renowned photographer Helmut Newton has a shop where you can acquire products that reflect his eclectic taste. A fine example of his work includes these devilishly hot bondage x-ray t-shirts.
You’ll also find bondage x-ray notepads, pill boxes and books.
PHOTOGRAPHY
CATHERINE DAY
You GOT to love Catherine Day. Photographer, retoucher, tea addict and lover of pixels. And weird rings.
She picked up her first camera at the age of six, and ever since, images have meant everything to her. At the age of 24 her passion for creating fashion and beauty images with a dark or unusual twist completely consumed her and has become her entire world.
Check out her gorgeous latex pictures and more, on:
GOODIES
FETISH BRAND WEARINGS: MMM
DESIGN
FRENCH MAID
Peter Jakubik’s highboy, night stand, stool, wall lamp and wall hanger narrate lusty the adventures hidden between the walls of motel rooms. The highboy and nightstand, named Maid, flirt with the fetish touch of the French maid uniform. The stool reflects sensual feminine touch by wearing white curly plastic knickers inspired by burlesque lingerie.
The wall lamp, the Coquette, is an ordinary wall lamp by day, but when night comes and you light her up, she starts flirting with the walls in your room.
Lastly, the wall hanger’s sexy legs extend from out of a skirt, ready to hold your coat.
PODIOBOOKS
DIARY OF AN S&M ROMANCE
"Diary of an S and M Romance" by Dollie Llama and ThornDaddy, is the true story of a young widow reclaiming her life in a red-hot world of kinky sex. She's a feminist doing things that many feminists would consider beastly, and loving every second of it. In "Diary of an S and M Romance", Dollie Llama explores the complex connections between romantic sweetness and furious, nasty sex.
Part introspective journey of discovery, part tender love story.Part manifesto of empowerment, part dirty dirty book.
"A refreshingly different book about an S and M relationship. The title 'romance' has been rightly chosen. Who should read "Diary of an S and M Romance"? All who have an interest in S and M.
-- Marquis Magazine
"The book has a feeling of real intimacy. This very contemporary romance taps into the universality of all relationships."
-- Skin Two Magazine
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Dollie Llama and ThornDaddy are an ecstatically married couple living in Southern California.
They do a free weekly BDSM PodCast called Submission and Coffee.
And check out their second serialized free audiobook, The Plump Buffet.
www.podiobooks.com/title/sm-diary
THE HISTORY OF
THE BERKLEY HORSE
The Berkley Horse is a BDSM apparatus, supposedly designed for, or by, Theresa Berkley in 1828. She referred to it as a "chevalet".
A notorious machine was invented for Mrs Berkley to flog gentlemen upon, in the spring of 1828. It is capable of being opened to a considerable extent, so as to bring the body to any angle that might be desirable. There is a print in Mrs Berkley's memoirs, representing a man upon it quite naked. A woman is sitting in a chair exactly under it, with her bosom, belly, and bush exposed: she is manualizing his embolon, whilst Mrs Berkley is birching his posteriors.
"When the new flogging machine was invented, the designer told her it would bring her into notice, and go by her name after her death; and it did cause her to be talked of, and brought her a great deal of business. [...] The original horse is among the models of the Society of Arts at the Adelphi, and was presented by Doctor Vance, her executor."
In one surviving letter, a customer hearing about the Berkley Horse proffered Theresa Berkley this pricing for her services: ""a pound sterling for the first blood drawn, two pounds sterling if the blood runs down to my heels, three pounds sterling if my heels are bathed in blood, four pounds sterling if the blood reaches the floor, and five pounds sterling if you succeed in making me lose consciousness."
The Society of Arts at the Adelphi is now the Royal Society of Arts: they took possession of the Horse in 1837, with public exhibition promoted by radical publisher George Cannon. An illustration of the apparatus is reproduced in the original 1880s edition of Ashbee's Index Librorum Prohibitorum, but omitted from the 1969 reprint. It is unclear whether the original device was preserved by the Royal Society of Arts.
Source: Wikipedia
PARTIES
DOORNROOSJE (B)
It’s summertime so Doornroosje is moving their NOENfeest from Fetish café Antwerp to the outdoors.
21st of July
18th of August
15th of September
From 1pm till 6pm
More info (Dutch) and reservations: www.smaxxx.eu/doornroosje
PHOTOGRAPHY
MIKE RUIZ
Mike Ruiz is a world renowned photographer, who also happens to be a TV personality, former model, actor and director. Mike's lens has done a whole lot of zooming in and zooming out, while the world keeps a keen focus on his high-impact, surreal brand of celebrity and fashion photography.
Mike was born and raised in Repentigny, a suburb in Montreal, Canada. After working for more than a decade as a successful model, his true calling came into focus one Christmas morning, when he got a gift of a lifetime: his first camera. Wide-eyed, he took the camera out of the box, and in the blink of an adept eye, his whole life was about to change. With focused determination, Mike immediately took to his new present--taught himself the intricate mechanics of the camera and to this day, he hasn't stopped clicking away. Perhaps it's only when you might hear him say, "we got it!", that there is but the slightest of pauses to an otherwise very hectic shooting schedule. Sharing with the world the images that he captures is tantamount to poetry. Whether it's Kim Kardashian to Betty White, or from Nicki Minaj to Katy Perry, Mike has seen and shot it all.
Like everything Mike touches, we witness a man who brings to life the fantastical, which in turn, is inspired by his brilliant optimism. Throughout it all, Mike's hard work, dedication and passion behind the camera has given him the opportunity to bring his message of hope to the forefront of all his efforts. Mike has a true sense of social responsibility and is always intent on giving back to the community. Among the countless organizations he supports, are The Ali Forney Center, GMHC, The Trevor Project, Housing Works, It Gets Better Campaign, Living Out Loud, Project Angel Food--as well as The Men’s Sexual Health Project for NYU School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital. Mike is also a recurring motivational speaker at New York University, the Art Center College of Design, Brooklyn International High School and the College of Design in Sacramento.
In addition to his advertising and celebrity clients, Mike Ruiz has branched out as a director. He has produced music videos for artists, such as Vanessa Williams, Kelly Rowland, Jody Watley, Kristine W., Shontelle among others. Mike has also appeared on several reality shows. Such shows include Kathy Griffin's: My Life on the D-List; America's Next top Model and RuPaul's Drag Race, where he appears as a celebrity photographer and guest judge. He also rounded out the panel of expert judges on the third season of Canada's Next Top Model. Most recently, Mike is on the hit reality series, The A-List: New York, giving viewers a peek at his picture perfect LIFE...what's next on Mike's list? That is anybody's guess--but you can be sure there will be plenty more to come!
FASHION
LOUIS VUITTON
Louis Vuitton's autumn/winter 2011 press release opened with a dictionary definition of the word Fetish. It was explained in the notes as something not merely attached to sex but to the act of worship and devotion in general. Designer Marc Jacob's revealed that his intention was to explore themes of commitment, effort and discipline.
His reference was The Night Porter (Italian: Il Portiere di notte) a controversial 1974 film by Italian director Liliana Cavani, starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling. Bogarde plays Maximilian Theo Aldorfer, a former Nazi SS officer, and Rampling is Lucia Atherton, a concentration camp survivor who had an ambiguous relationship with Aldorfer. Flashbacks show Max tormenting Lucia, but also acting as her protector. In an iconic scene, Lucia sings a Marlene Dietrich song to the concentration camp guards while wearing pieces of an SS uniform, and Max "rewards" her with the severed head of a male inmate who had been bullying the other inmates, a reference to Salome. Thirteen years after World War II, Lucia meets Aldorfer again; he is now the night porter at a Vienna hotel. There, they fall back into their sadomasochistic relationship.
The look was central to the collection; Jacobs dressed each of his girls in peaked caps, some of them LV monogrammed. The wardrobes of both female and male of The Night Porter were explored in the form of voluminous trenchcoats, leather gloves, braces and military-style jodphurs and jackets.
Models as uniformed bellboys and chauffeurs to sexy French maids in pure fashion fantasy form, as Paris’ iconic Louvre played host to legendary models Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell, role-playing their parts on the catwalk. Dipped in lace, leather & fur and accessorized by crystal covered handcuffs.
The ‘Feti-Chic’ collection had plenty of products that many would look upon with fetishistic desire. Jacob's designs certainly brings up ideas of traditional S&M. They risk being cheap and trashy but Jacobs was staying true to the discipline aspect of 'fetish'. He promoted the 'less is more' philosophy (a back-buttoning blouse is far sexier than a bare top-half). And obviously, his fabrics were far more luxurious than the sort one usually associates with sex shops.
COMICS
ERIC STANTON
Eric Stanton (September 30, 1926–March 17, 1999; born Ernest Stanzoni) was an American bondage and fetish illustrator, cartoonist, and comic-book artist.
The majority of his work depicted female dominance scenarios.
Born and raised in New York City, Stanton began his career in 1947 at Irving Klaw's Movie Star News company, gaining employment by boasting he could draw better than any of the artists then working for Klaw. He afterward attended the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, under Batman inker Jerry Robinson and others. One classmate was future Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, with whom Stanton shared a Manhattan studio at 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue from 1958 to 1966 or 1968 (accounts differ). Some of Stanton's work during this period shows Ditko influence (see below), and the introduction to one book of Stanton's work says, "Eric Stanton drew his pictures in India ink, and they were then hand-coloured by Ditko". Ditko reportedly denied touching Stanton's work, though Stanton himself said they would spot-ink each other's art.
Stanton, in a 1988 interview with comics historian Greg Theakston, recalled that though his contribution to Spider-Man was "almost nil", he and Ditko had "worked on storyboards together [and] I added a few ideas. But the whole thing was created by Steve on his own. ... I think I added the business about the webs coming out of his hands".
After Klaw died in 1966, Stanton supported himself by self-publishing and distributing his work to a quasi-underground network of subscribers and patrons. His mimeographed/photocopied Stantoons comic-book series continued to his death in 1999 and featured many of his best-known post-Klaw concepts, including the superheroine Blunder Broad, and the Amazon-like Princkazons.
Stanton created Blunder Broad in the 1970s with writer Turk Winter, for use in a great number of pornographic BDSM stories, published over the years in black and white. A parody of Wonder Woman, Blunder Broad is an inept superheroine who continually fails in her missions and is invariably raped and tortured by her enemies, who include a lesbian supervillainess variably called Leopard Lady, Pussycat Galore, or Cheetah, and her male sidekick Count Dastardly. Blunder Broad can be deprived of her super strength when subjected to cunnilingus.
With "Lady Princker", Stanton and Shaltis (as well as Alan Throne and Winter) created the Princkazons storyline in which women around the world grew female penises, or "princks". These women also grew taller and stronger than men and began dominating and humiliating the men in public, including facesitting and rape.
In addition to books about his work, Stanton's art was reprinted in the 1990s in Fantagraphics Books' Eros Comix comic book Tops and Bottoms, issues subtitled "Bound Beauty" (#1), "Lady in Charge" (#2), "Broken Engagement" (#3), "Broken Engagement 2" (#4), Sweet Gwen, The Kinky Hook, as well as in that publisher's Bizarre Comix #3 and Confidential TV. The German publisher Taschen has published several collections.
Source: Wikipedia
GOODIES
SHOOT THE ARTIST
Although we don’t like guns here at LMDP headquarters, we couldn’t resist the urge of sharing these goodies.
FASHION
GARETH PUGH
One of our favorite London-based style subversives Gareth Pugh in collaboration with two brands.
He infuses his shadowy, esoteric vision into an exclusive collection for M•A•C.
He has recently teamed up with ABSOLUT MODE EDITION to participate in a redesign of the iconic ABSOLUT bottle. Pugh chose to evoke the realm of fashion by creating a bottle with twelve facets and wrapping it in a midnight blue silk cloth embroidered band.
ET ALORS? MAGAZINE
CONTEST
The contest to win your own designer collar by Edin DeSosa for Schwarzer Reiter is closed. An update on who won it will follow soon!
LAUNCH PARTIES
ET ALORS? MAGAZINE
Thanks to everyone who made our launch parties possible!
BERLIN
AMSTERDAM
ANTWERP
FASHION
MCQUEEN
Absolutely adore the Alexander McQueen Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear Collection!
SHOP
THE INVERTED EYE
The Inverted Eye offers subtly kinky items and discreet fetish antiques to discerning clientele
The online store presents a palpable sanctuary for customers to explore fringe fetishes.
Patrons can shop privately while looking inward & challenging their notions of what is "normal" & what is "perverse".
We love!!
MAGAZINE
FERRY
A magazine that carries the (boy’s) name Ferry. Where men act outside their frame. The cover visualizes this literally, as if every cover model is Ferry. In combination with the topic, it also can be read as ‘Very’. The twist lies in the fact that you read the title and the topic as one sense or message. The target group of the magazine can be guessed!
FMM is published quarterly with a circulation of 10,000 copies throughout the Netherlands and Belgium. We grow with our readers and so will our circulation.We are currently a non-profit organisation, founded by enthusiasts. Photographers, stylists and models contribute voluntarily to this progressive magazine.
The Cellars of Cureghem
Rue Ropsy Chaudron 24
1070 Brussels
Check it out on
www.ferrymag.com
PHOTOGRAPHY
MEISEL FOR VOGUE
Tight corsets, leather accessories and multiple piercings… A look at photographer’s Steven Meisel’s new editorial for Vogue Italia, inspired by Ethel Granger.
Model: Stella Tennant
Photographer: Steven Meisel
Stylist: Karl Templer
ART
WHIP MACHINE
It does not take long before the initial amusement that overtakes a visitor to an exhibition of quirky kinetic sculptures by Rebecca Horn disappears, and a sense of considerable unease takes over.
She is a 44-year-old West German artist, still better known by Europeans than Americans, although her work has been exhibited in the United States on and off for well over a decade. Having started her career in the 1960's constructing body sculptures that occasionally mixed sadism with sensuality, she has in recent years concocted electronic gadgetry of the sort displayed here.
My machines are not washing machines or cars. They have a human quality and they must change. They get nervous and must stop sometimes. If a machine stops, it doesn’t mean it’s broken. It’s just tired. The tragic or melancholic aspect of machines is very important to me. I don’t want them to run forever. It’s part of their life that they must stop and faint.
Rebecca Horn, "The Bastille Interviews II, Paris 1993"
MAGAZINE
POUPI WHOOPY
Hurray for boobies! That's pretty much what Poupi Whoopy magazine is about. The makers rehashed classic pin-ups and a whiff of burlesque with raunchy DIY and came up with a nudie mag that's somewhere between pop art and underground.
SHOES
NICHOLAS KIRKWOOD
Kirkwood VS Keith Haring VS Swarovski + rollerskates.
TOKYO - VENUES
ALPHA IN
In the Love Hotel category, Tokyo's Alpha-In offers up plenty of goodies. Alpha-In's theme is "anything goes as long as it's consenting." From medical motifs with dress up doctor and nurses' costumes and an examination bed to S&M rooms for beginners with a white color theme, a restraint chair, and 'heaven hanger shackles' and suspension chains.
FETISH MAKEUP
ANDREW GALLIMORE
RETRO FETISH
SALLY ROBERTS
She was billed as 'America's Sweetheart' or 'America's Bondage Sweetheart' and a huge star in the 70's. She still has this strange fascination for many, as being the sweet faced, girl-next-door in ropes.
FASHION
VOID OF COURSE A/W 11
I like to share some pictures of the great and raunchy Autumn/Winter 2011 collection from Void of Course called IMPOSSIBILITY OF LOVE.
Void of Course is a London-based brand from the collective minds of Belfast filmmaker and actor Chris Sutton and Dublin designer Sean-Anthony Moran.
Void of Course is formed as the synthesis of these two creatives and their pooled experience, laying a wide foundation and offering a unique depth to the brand.
Void of Course creates Art/ Fashion & Film with their own unique visceral need to create. This is the duo’s second collection; their first, ROMANCE OF VIOLENCE, included pieces that were worn by none other than Lady Gaga.
GOODIES
FLEET ILYA
Fleet Ilya is headed by Ilya Fleet and Resha Sharma, the former, Russian-born with training in traditional saddle-making and Resha Sharma a Central Saint Martins Graphic Design graduate from London.
Fleet Ilya can be traced back to a small bedroom in South London where Ilya Fleet began taking his traditional leather training and combining it with a knowledge of 3 dimensional design learned from his late father, a renowned Russian sculptor. The constructive tendencies evident in his rigorous pursuit of functionality and a sublimity of form.
Ilya soon developed what is widely regarded as the signature line, Restraint – a collection of hand-crafted luxury accessories for the sexually playful. Resha became his creative partner and wife shortly afterwards, applying her knowledge of fashion, image making and art direction to blur the line between leather bondage and fashion accessories.
EXPO
THOMAS RUFF
Thomas Ruff (born 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach) is an internationally renowned German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf.
During his studies, Ruff developed his method of conceptual serial photography. His initial focus was the interiors of German living quarters, with typical features of the 1950s to 1970s. This was followed by similar views of buildings and portraits of friends and acquaintances. These are typically shown with emotionless expressions, in very large, high-resolution passport-style portraits. In a discussion with Philip Pocock (Journal for Contemporary Art, 1993), Ruff mentions a connection between these portraits and the police observation methods in Germany in the 1970s during the German Autumn.
Thomas Ruff's building portraits are likewise serial, and have been edited digitally to remove obstructing details – a typifying method, which gives the images an exemplary character. Of these Ruff notes, "This type of building represents more or less the ideology and economy in the West German republic in the past thirty years."
These series were followed in 1989 by images of the night sky, Sterne, which were not based on photographs by Ruff, but rather on archived images found by the artist in a European Observatory. In the years from 1992 to 1995, Ruff produced night images of exteriors and buildings using the same night vision infrared technology developed for use, both military and in broadcast television, during the Gulf War. In 1994 to 1996 these were followed by Stereoscopy images, and another series in the 1990s, Zeitungsfotos, consisted of newspaper clippings enlarged without their original subtitles.
In 2003 Thomas Ruff published a photographic collection of "Nudes" with a text by the French author Michel Houellebecq. Ruff's images here are based on Internet pornography, which was digitally processed and obscured. In 2009, The Aperture Foundation in New York published jpegs, a large-scale book dedicated exclusively to his monumental series of pixilated enlargements of internet-culled images, all compressed using the standard JPEG format.[1][2] which intentionally uses JPEG artifacts.
Exhibition:
Museum Villa Haiss - Germany
08.07.2011 - 31.12.2011
www.museum-villa-haiss.de
BOOKS
HELMUT NEWTON POLAROIDS
World known photographer Helmut Newton established a particular style marked by erotic, stylized scenes, often with sado-masochistic and fetishistic subtexts.
Helmut Newton, Polaroids published by Taschen presents a collection of the photographer’s test Polaroids allowing for a rare glimpse into the workings behind some of his greatest shoots over a period of decades.
Helmut Newton, Polaroids,
£34.99 is published by Taschen and available at www.taschen.com from July.
DESIGN
UNA BURKE
Designer/Artists Statement:
Through my work I continually aim to create leather objects which are both visually captivating and technically challenging. They are pieces of wearable art which are indefinable as particular garments, preventing them from being placed into the conventional categories of the fashion industry. They are free to exist just as the objects that they are, interpreted independently by each individual. I use traditional leatherworking techniques to produce these evocative, conceptual creations. In doing this I hope to encourage a new and more modern appreciation for leather craftsmanship and present the possibilities achievable through the use of this material in both the areas of art and of functional design.
FETISH
CROSSDRESSING
Why do women voluntarily bind their breasts, spend hours creating facial stubble and want to make everyone believe they are in fact men?
Meet the dragking…!
» Read more in English
» Read more in Dutch
Jim by Jan van Breda
ART
ERWIN OLAF
Born in1959 in Hilversum (the Netherlands), lives in Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Erwin Olaf's art visualizes implicitly the unspoken, the overlooked, that typically resist easy documentation. Olaf's trademark is to address social issues, taboos, and bourgeois conventions in a highly stylized and cunning mode of image making.
AMSTERDAM - SHOOT
LA MAITRESSE DU PIRATE
Striking a pose for the higher cause.
Amsterdam based photographer and artist Johan Brouwer is making a book called Proud@.nl.
A piece of art with pictures and stories of proud individuals. Proud for being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender,.. you name it.
This book makes a friendly fist towards intolerance and unacceptance.
Check out this great initiative on:
www.proudat.nl
(website only available in Dutch)
FASHION
VOID OF COURSE A/W 11
I like to share some pictures of the great and raunchy Autumn/Winter 2011 collection from Void of Course called IMPOSSIBILITY OF LOVE.
Void of Course is a London-based brand from the collective minds of Belfast filmmaker and actor Chris Sutton and Dublin designer Sean-Anthony Moran.
Void of Course is formed as the synthesis of these two creatives and their pooled experience, laying a wide foundation and offering a unique depth to the brand.
Void of Course creates Art/ Fashion & Film with their own unique visceral need to create. This is the duo’s second collection; their first, ROMANCE OF VIOLENCE, included pieces that were worn by none other than Lady Gaga.
BERLIN - PARTY
LA MAITRESSE DU PIRATE
La Maîtresse du Pirate goes international with the German edition of Wanna Play ? On the 8th of september 2011, we would love you to join us on this special event.
Beautiful people, drinks, food and play & dance possibilities are the keywords on that special evening where there won’t be a difference between Fetish and BDSM but where we aim for a smooth cocktail between all those goodies.
Because it’s always nice to host well dressed people, we would like to ask you to stick to the dresscode: Fetish, BDSM, 30’ Gangsta, Burlesque, Crossdressing, Gala, Smoking... as long as you feel pretty and we all have to suppress the urge of eating you alive.
Where:
All this yummy love stuff is centred in the exclusive Schloss Greifenhain in Brandenburg. Situated between Berlin and Dresden.
When:
The Mistresses and Pirates are waiting for you at 9 pm and will set you free – no doubt with glooming faces because of enjoying your company - at 4 am.
How:
35 people can enlighten us with their presence, so this party is ‘invitation only’. Please send an email to info@lamaitressedupirate.com, if you want to be on our list.
Being practical:
By car:
Your car can be parked in front of the building. Just ask us for driving directions.
By airplane:
www.easyjet.com
We can arrange a taxi or shuttle at your arrival.
Hotels:
www.am-seegraben-hotel.de
www.www.radissonblu.co.uk (search for Germany – Cottbus)
I hope we see each other there and then, for a trip through a sparkling night.
Fleur Pierets & Paulien Boom
FASHION
SAMUEL CIRNANSCK
Brazilian designer Samuel Cirnansck closed the first day of Sao Paulo fashion week with a show to remember. He picked up where Louis Vuitton left off, introducing ropes and fetish into his spring collection. Where Marc handcuffed his girls to Louis Vuitton bags, Cirnansck put horse bit gags in his models’ mouths and tied them up.
WE LOVE
THE GIVENCHY CROWN
Kirsten McMenamy wearing the Givenchy Crown by Riccardo Tisci in i-D NO. 313.
Photography by Josh Olins.
www.i-donline.com
www.josholins.com
DESIGN
HELLO KITTY
The Hello Kitty-Inspired Sofa by Mark Stratis is not as cute as it may sound. With a handcuff on either side of this stylish seat, this sofa appears to be perfect for the bondage-loving Hello Kitty fan.The couch was a part of a Hello Kitty-inspired ‘Love Hotel Art’ installation, explaining the naughty handcuffs. With lots of pink and a sparkly bow on the back cushion, I’m sure that this Hello Kitty-Inspired Sofa will fulfill a certain population’s fetishes.
The starting point of the Love Hotel project began with a simple question. How could America solve its current financial recession? Mark Stratis came up with a possible solution. The sex industry accumulates over fifty-seven-billion dollars a year worldwide. Twelve billion of which comes from the U.S. alone. What if American tapped into the sex industry to help pull itself out of the recession?
Let’s just say that’s what happened. America decided that it needed to be number one again and quickly. They start by legalizing prostitution, which had only been made illegal in the early 1900’s. Slowly but surely, small red-light districts start appearing around the nation. The red-light districts have brothels, bathhouses, sex stores, theatres, and Love hotels.
This is the idea that Mark Stratis used to create his Hello Kitty inspired Love hotel pre-viz model, which was used as the basis for the furniture collection. The collection is comprised of a Sofa, two ottomans, coffee table, lamp, and rug. To compliment the furniture and take viewers into this love hotel world, Mark also created several smaller props. The props include, a ball gag, Hello Kitty Paddle, necklace, two mock magazine covers, and Kitty Milk carton.
BOOKS
DE SADE – LETTERS FROM PRISON
The great libertine author, the subject of many biographical efforts, is finally allowed to speak about his life, in his own words, with the publication of this selection of letters written during the many years that Sade was incarcerated. Behind bars from 1777, when he was first imprisoned in Vincennes, to 1789, the marquis had nothing else to do but write. These letters reveal that while he was melodramatic, manipulative, self-righteous and prone to fits of rage and paranoia, he was also extremely insightful, intelligent, well read, full of ironic humour and capable of expressing great love and tenderness to his wife.
Most of the letters in this collection are to his spouse, toward whom his emotions are startlingly extreme. In an early letter he writes, "My dear friend, you are all I have left on earth: father, mother, sister, wife, friend, you are all those to me, I have no one but you: do not abandon me, I beg you, let it not be from you that I receive the final blow of misfortune." But later, he vents his frustration on her, chiding her cruelly for foolish pursuits: "If 'tis true that one must account to the Lord for one's time on earth, what embarrassment awaits you in the next world!" The only drawback to this collection is that the reader gets only Sade's side. Although Seaver's elegant introduction nearly fills the need, the full context, in the form of the many letters Sade received, is missing. Even by themselves, however, these stunning epistles show a man who suffered endlessly in prison, but who never lost his spirit, finding solace in the written word.
The Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) in Prison
(engraving) by French School, (19th century) Private Collection/ The Bridgeman Art Library.
Source: Publishers Weekly
IN THE PICTURE
FOR SEXUAL FREEDOM
Mission Statement
The NCSF aims to advance the rights of, and advocate for consenting adults in the BDSM- Leather- Fetish, Swing, and Polyamory Communities.
We pursue our vision through direct services, education, advocacy, and outreach, in conjunction with Our partners, to directly benefit these communities.
EXPOSURE
MADRID
We are very happy to read that our Magazine also got reviewed in Madrid.
And not just by anyone, but by the inspirator of the stylish and exclusive BDSM club Fetterati.
A place where they add an elegant touch to the world of fetishism, sadomasochism and consensual BDSM.
A review of Fetterati in English:
www.whattoseeinmadrid.com/fetterati
The Fetterati website in Spanish:
www.fetterati.net
The note on La Maîtresse du Pirate:
http://pipinkos.blogspot.com
WHERE TO BUY
ET ALORS? MAGAZINE
Et Alors? Magazine is making it's way into the shops!
Just to keep you posted on where our beautiful newborn is available, check out all the bookstores who were brave enough to stock Et Alors? until now.
Check the bookstores HERE
Online sale HERE
10 CHRISTMAS TIPS
LA MAITRESSE DU PIRATE
Tip 1: Goodies by Nonon de Florette
Beautifully handmade handcuffs, collars en belts. Yes, we have seen them in real life and they are yummie!
Tip 2: Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
A highly influential book in academic feminism and queer theory. It is also the book credited with creating the seminal notion of gender performativity. It is considered to be one of the canonical texts of queer theory and postmodern/poststructural feminism.
Not an easy-reading book but take your time and you won’t regret it.
Tip 3: Maitresse by Agent Provocateur
How can we not love it!
Tip 4: The Forbidden Fruit by Rianne S.
An external intimate massager, designed to add another dimension to your play. Discover yourself and each other by moving the stalk of the apple to switch between the five different intensities and seven vibrational patterns. The large surface ensures all the right areas are tickled and teased.
Tip 5: T-shirt by Tom of Finland
Tom of Finland was a Finnish artist notable for his stylized androerotic and fetish art and his influence on late twentieth century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images". Check out the T-shirts. As use see they’re suitable for either men or women!
www.tomoffinlandfoundation.org
Tip 6: Human Hair Whip by Paul Seville
This whip is made from human hair by master leather artisan Paul Seville. And it has an overlapped leather handle. It was inspired by the Surrealist movement. It’s incredibly soft, yet if used properly can carry just enough sting. The human hair whip is delightfully different and extremely sensual.
For sale at: www.cocodemerusa.com
Tip 7: Closer Together by 210th
The 210th chilled wine comes in a beautifully designed white bottle. This wine is a refreshing blend of 70% Prosecco and 30% Chardonnay, full flavored, fruity with the fragrance of ripe peach and a harmonious dry finish. The sparkling wine is uniquely produced through cold fermentation using specially developed yeast and has been proclaimed the best sparkling wine in Italy! Cheers darlings!
Tip 8: Sado Chic Cufflinks by Betony Vernon
The Sado-Chic Cufflinks will add a sexy accent to your formal attire, whether you are a perfect gentleman or a daring dame with a desire for three-piece suits and tuxedos.
Tip 9: Foot Corset by Ainsley-T
We love shoes and we love corsets. Stuart Thom from Ainsley-T Italy understood and created this gorgeous Foot Corset. Developed in collaboration with Tonia Merz.
Tip 10: A very, very big kiss by La Maïtresse du Pirate
Why? Because we want to thank you all for visiting our website, liking our firstborn Et Alors? Magazine and especially because we love the way you are being yourself.
So cheers to you!! We wish you the most wonderful Christmas and lots of love, fun, good times, bubbles and glamor in 2012.
Here you go sweetie darlings!
Fleur & Julian
EXPO
PETER LINDBERGH
The internationally acclaimed photographer Peter Lindbergh has in part determined the fashion scene during the past 25 years. His melancholy images give a view of the inner essence of supermodels like Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz or Kate Moss. The FoMu presents the series Berlin, which he made for Vogue magazine in 2009, and aselection by Klaus Honnef, from 2010, a unique combination of his world famous images and more recent work.
Expo at the FOMU and Geukens & De Vil Gallery Antwerp (Belgium). October 14 – January 29 2011.
www.peterlindbergh.com
www.fotomuseum.be
ART
UNITED COLORS OF BENETTON
The latest Benetton project: Lana Sutra was created by Erik Ravelo, a Cuban artist at Fabrica. These art pieces embody the idea of colour and of a woollen thread linking all humankind. The Lana Sutra is a series of 15 installations conceived as a homage to love and dedicated to the desire for an equal and sharing society.
The Lana Sutra is the result of Ravelo’s reflections on the meaning of Kama sutra (kama, pleasure; sutra, a thread which unites). Each installation is made of two plaster sculptures: two bodies embracing and covered in woollen threads in various colours, chosen from the key tonalities present in the United Colours of Benetton Fall-Winter collection, currently available in the stores. The points where the two entities meet and where the colours merge into each other, is yet again a way to symbolize how love can cancel differences and bind humanity as one.
More on the Benetton blog:
wwww.blog.benetton.com
GOODIES
CHAIN BY MARC JACOBS
PHOTOGRAPHY
KATSU NAITO
West Side Rendezvous is a collection of photographs by Katsu Naito, documenting the transvestite and transexual streetwalkers of New York's Meatpacking district in the early 90's.
Naito's 45 monochrome portraits, are at once tough, romantic and full of street-knowledge, capturing moments of beauty in their subject's day-to-day lives. Of all races and backgrounds, their bond with Naito is one of trust and mutual respect. Even after 20 years that’s obvious to see.
West Side Rendezvous by Katsu Naito is published by Wild Life Press
EXPO
STORYTELLERS
Storytellers provides a rare opportunity for gallery visitors to view a wide range of material pulled from The Kinsey Institute’s extensive library collection, with an intriguing selection of pulp fiction paperbacks from the 1960s, illustrated erotic novels, underground comic books, Japanese pillow books, and other narrative texts. Story-driven artworks are also included in the exhibition, ranging from vintage photographs, prints, watercolours, and drawings by anonymous and known artists to a series of Judy Chicago lithographs and other contemporary pieces.
A case of ’60s pulp fiction sits in the middle of the room. Titles such as “Sucked into Sin” and “Sexperiment” are accompanied by depictions of sexual encounters.
Kinsey Institute art curator Johnson-Roehr said these books were popular, cheap and much like the Internet today in their accessibility. With many different topics available, the novels fed every fetish.
“Storytellers” gives visitors a chance to view sex as an ongoing narrative.
MAGAZINE
LA MAITRESSE DU PIRATE
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ET ALORS?
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You can find more information and order your first copy HERE
PRESS
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GENDER
LADY GAGA
With the words "You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don't love yourself.” Lady Gaga revealed the cover of het newest single “You and I”.
Pictured is the model Jo Calderone, who, if you're a major Gaga fan or fashionista, you know is the drag alter-ego of the Grammy winning popstar, this cigarette-smoking tough with a whole bunch of attitude.
GALLERY
LA MAITRESSE DU PIRATE
Check out our brand new online gallery!
With the now seperately available photographes that are included in our latest publication, the fairytale book 'De Tuin met tien Deuren'.
And all the available pictures from our current exhibition 'In Pain'.
For more information, contact us at info@lamaitressedupirate.com
DESIGN
SARAH GARZONI
A corset made with hundreds of shark teeth.
With "Breaching", Sarah Garzoni made a life-sized, traditional 19th century corset fashioned out of wax, string, plaster, and added a thousand shark teeth. The piece was shown at the Atomes Crochusan exhibition in Paris, France.
You'll find images of Garzoni's artwork, including more pictures of this masterpiece at www.sarahgarzoni.com
FETISHVERTISING
CHRIS HABANA
Jewelry designer Chris Habana launches the new AW11 collection with this “Weird N’ Kinky” short movie by narrativefilm.com.
One of the short film nominees at the Festival-Cinema in Kiel.
www.vimeo.com
www.chrishabana.com
MOVIES
MARIA BEATTY
Maria Beatty is a New York filmmaker who directs, acts, and produces. Her films are often made in black and white and cover various aspects of female sexuality including BDSM and fetishism. She was inspired by expressionist German cinema, by French surrealism and American film noir.
She sometimes stars in her own films, such as The Elegant Spanking (1995) and The Black Glove (1997). In 2007 she won the FICEB Best Director award for Silken Sleeves.
DESIGN
DIGNA KOSSE
'May I ask how many costumes she wears out each year?'
'My dear sir, the clothing of a lady does not wear out through her wearing of it, but through her being seen in it. '
Richard Steele
Behold the whispier than whispy minimal dress.
NEWSLETTER
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FASHION
KERMIT TESORO
Kermit Tesoro is a rising fashion design talent from the Philippines who displayed his latest collection which feature among other designs, a pair of skull heels. The shoes are an alabaster finish that integrates a small skull into the heel and the shoes come in variety of styles from straps to suede.
This unusual motif was carried throughout the collection as demonstrated by the designs which used milled foam, bent wire or rubber tubing. The full collection was quite avant-garde despite its mostly monotone colour palette.
SHOES
LOUBOUTIN
Shoe designer Christian Louboutin designed special ballet slippers for the English National Ballet's Summer Party silent auction. Louboutin added 8-inch heels and his red sole to the slippers.
PICTURES
CREEM #3
His + Hers
Creem #3
Shot by: Michael Donovan
Styling by: Katerina Simonova
Models: Jana Wirth & Natalia Piro
BERLIN - TRAVEL
LA MAITRESSE DU PIRATE
From Thursday the 8th of September till Sunday the 11th, La Maîtresse du Pirate takes you on a trip through Europe’s fetish capital.
You sleep in an authentic Slot which is equipped with the most advanced bdsm tools, we’ll take you on a fetish tour to the most beautiful toy ateliers and shops, feed you with an exquisite 8-cours dinner, invite you to a bdsm play night on a gorgeous location and invite you in the most exclusive nightclub near Berlin.
3 days and nights of fun, food and excitement. A weekend measured to fit your fantasies and imagination.
A weekend to be yourself, without restrictions.
Feel free to send an e-mail to berlin@lamaitressedupirate.com to receive the full program.
PHOTOGRAPHY
POLLY BORLAND
In the recent photography series “Smudge,” Polly Borland, an Australian photographer, shows a series of anonymous models with hidden faces. Some of her subjects’ faces are covered with stuffed toy heads, while other looks teeter towards fetish fashion. With stocking-covered faces and simplistically drawn-on features, her work runs the gamut from cute to bizarre.
The series was inspired while photographing a man dressed in a Santa Claus outfit. Borland decided to take his beard and have it cover his entire face. That shot went to exploring with wigs and other small props. Fans of Borland’s work know that the fetish theme isn’t a new one for the artists; ironically, the photographer has also shot such famous icons as England’s Queen to pop sensation Kylie Minogue. From those well-done but staid subjects, she did a series with men who enjoy dressing up as babies after work.
ANTWERP - VERNISSAGE
LA MAITRESSE DU PIRATE
Photo's by: Paulien Boom
MX7 GALLERY:
IN PAIN – LA MAITRESSE DU PIRATE
(photography by Bart Cloet).
May, 12 – June, 25 2011
Feel free to drop by from Thursday to Saturday –
From 2 till 4 pm, or by appointment.
Location: MX7 GALLERY – Marnixplaats 7 – 2000 Antwerp (Belgium)
FASHION
McQUEEN AT THE MET
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.A survey of the career of the British fashion designer.
Read More about Alexander McQueen HERE
Info about the exhibition:
www.metmuseum.org
BOOKS
LA MAITRESSE DU PIRATE
“De tuin met tien deuren” is a fairy tale about a young woman who is forced by her lover to undergo a number of fetishist initiations. He leaves her behind in the woods peopled by mythological creatures who take care of her and transform her into an ‘insider’. The initiation ritual is based on the great arcana from the Tarot de Marseille, in which each card represents a ritual she has to undergo. At the end of the journey, she has to abide by the judgement…
Eroticism, BDSM and fetishism are key words in this story about the limits to our freedom, about the way we try to cross these limits or how, to the contrary, we determine our own limits. Reality, fiction and symbols crisscross, touch and merge, transporting the reader to the twilight zone where fantasy and reality meet. This is the story of a journey to explore extremes, set in a world of fairy tales.
Concept & production - Fleur Pierets
Tekst - Cornelia van Lierop
Photography - Bart Cloet
Assistent - Cathérine nuyttens
Styling - Mariella Puliafito
Editorial - Akim A.J. Willems
Models - Jeroen Olyslaegers, Gerry Verstreken, Fleur Pierets, Bart Vanderbiesen, Geoffrey de Beer, Cornelia van Lierop, Mariella Puliafito, Tim Den Haese.
A La Maîtresse du Pirate production, only avalable in Dutch. Order at info@lamaitressedupirate.com - EUR29,95
VINTAGE
CHERI HEROUARD/HERRIC
1881-1961
Chéri Hérouard was born as Chéri-Louis-marie-Aime Haumé in Rocroi on January 6, 1881.
He changed his last name to Hérouard as a child when his mother remarried. he was most famously known for his forty-five year work for the French society magazine La Vie Parisienne.
Under the pseudonym of Herric, he created erotic and sadomasochistic illustrations for various books including the Kama Sutra.
He died June 2, 1961.
L'Infernale fouetteuse
Author André Vergereau
Publisher Editions Prima
Published in 1935
Pantalons sans Defens
Author Jean Claqueret
Publisher Jean Fort
Published in 1938
GOODIES
AGENT PROVOCATEUR
VINTAGE
PACO RABANNE
“I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control of her finances and knows how it is to be independent.”
-Paco Rabanne
RIGA - VENUES
HOSPITALIS
This hospital-themed restaurant in Riga, Latvia is very strange but also incredibly cool.This place even plays medical dramas on TV screens. If I were to design a restaurant, then this most certainly would be its theme.
As one would expect, it has a clinical white wax floor, tools and operating room lamp, a sofa bed hospital and kitchen accessories everywhere. Brilliantly, desserts include chocolate served in a syringe, and naturally, the waitresses are dressed up as sexy nurses.
FETISHVERTISING
BRIAN ATWOOD
Top model Jon Kortajarena has become a pro when it comes to feet fetish in advertising. First he did it in the scandalous Tom Ford S/S 08 then for Diesel S/S 09. Here he has done it again for the Brian Atwood S/S 09 campaign.
Jon Kortajarena stars alongside the one and only Rene Russo in the passionate-themed ads by photographer Tony Duran.
Feet fetishes have been increasingly gaining ground in pop culture; in addition to fashion ad campaigns, we are seeing magazines and blogs dedicated to the obsession with feet.
