Tag: Fashion

Edie Sedgwick. Back to the 60s. Part I

Edie Sedgwick in pantyhose Edie Sedgwick, a muse of Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan, a Factory girl, an actress and a model, an icon of the 60s was also known for her distinctive style: short hair, long shoulder length earrings, heavy dark eye make-up (those 3 hours of waiting while she was doing her eyes were driving everyone around crazy!) and pantyhose with everything.

Pantyhose with a leotard, pantyhose with a loose-fitting shirt (and nothing else), pantyhose and a t-shirt, pantyhose with mini-dress, pantyhose with leotard and t-shirt, etc. Black opaques or fishnets. And heels.

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Pantyhose, shorts, mini-skirts or back to the 70s. Part I

Shiny pantyhose high bootsSpeaking about the latest fashion tendencies (or simply click on fetish fashion), we are completely forgetting about what happened 30-40 years ago. Remember? Hippie, twist, then disco, mini, hot-pants, platforms and … pantyhose. white pantyhose, creamy pantyhose, shiny pantyhose. With everything. Pantyhose with shorts (see also Part I and Part II), pantyhose with mini-skirts, pantyhose under thick woollen stockings.

“For those who … liked to show a leg, it became tasteful in the early 70s to wear creamy white tights with black patent shoes.” (Source Fashion Era).

Girls were wearing extremely short skirts so they had to keep close to a wall when going up- or downstairs. Schoolgirls could not use the upper half of the blackboards.

Click on “more” to see more 😉 10 photos below

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What is fetish? Part II. By Alexandrebuffalo

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Alexandrebuffalo (www.alexandrebuffalo.com/bio_fr.htm)lives in Paris, has always been attracted by the entire universe of fetish and SM and has his own vision about what fetish is (www.alexandrebuffalo.com/comprendre.html – French).

First of all, (and I absolutely agree with him here) he draws a line between fetish for yourself and fetish for the sake of fashion:

“Pour bien marquer une différence je vais écrire fetish pour la mode, et fétiche pour l’esprit.”

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Versailles vs IKEA

Why them? Last week I’ve been to both Versailles and IKEA (yes, I have good excuses for both cases 😉 They both are big, crowdy, located on the outskirt of the cities, have pictures, beds and mirrors inside. Even the temperature (outside) was the same.

And the differences?

Clothes.

You might expect that people would dress up if they are going to visit a palais, and wear old “garden” worn out rags in a warehouse? Ha! Quite the opposite. Minidresses, miniskirts, shorts, high heels with pantyhose in IKEA. Just imagine long-legged girls (NL is the tallest nation in the world) in miniskirts and pantyhose scattered laying on beds and sofas, kids in shorts and opaque thin tights tumbling in soft toys, women on high heels, in skirts and transparent pantyhose checking the wardrobe heights …

And warm jackets, jeans, heavy boots, backpacks in Versailles. Typical tourists you would say. But there are exceptions. I’ve seen a Russian woman wearing high heeled boots with thin pantyhose and skirt on Zugspitze (at almost 3km).

Fetish music videos. Part II.
Madonna and “Human Nature”

(See Part I)

1995. Leather catsuits, latex hoods, bondage in a single-glove (or monoglove) strappado, Madonna chained to a chair, high-heels, what a list, eh? “Express yourself, don’t repress yourself” is the motto and the main idea of the song. The bondage itself and bondage symbols are used in the video as an allegory of “repressing”, when someone is not only allowed to live the life he/she wanted to live, but even prohibited to make any attempts of “expressing” his or her thoughts:

You wouldn’t let me say the words I longed to say
You punished me for telling you…
I didn’t know I couldn’t speak my mind
I didn’t know I couldn’t talk about … etc…

So, no, the video is not a bondage or fetish propaganda, quite the contrary 🙂

http://www.myvideo.de/watch/1496863


The stills from the video you can see here. Just like Robert Palmer’s”Addicted to Love” this video was directed by a professional fashion photographer. Jean-Baptiste Mondino was inspired by his photo session with Nadja Auermann:
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Madonna and “Human Nature””