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Latex, pantyhose, leather, mohair, velvet or ready-to-wear and Cerruti

$Cerruti fashion latex mini skirt pantyhose$ Silky latex, pantyhose (also with shorts), tight leather, mohair, velvet, high heels, opera length gloves, mini skirts, long legs… What do you think I’m talking about? Fetish party? Fetishists heaven? Collective fetish dreams?

Not even close (but it all depend how you look at it, of course ;-). Cerruti (French fashion house) with some help from Australian designer Richard Nicoll presented their fall/winter 2010 ready-to-wear collection for business women.

See 16 photos below.

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Fashion trends 2009

A week ago TieUpTime sent me a link to the 2009 footwear collection. After the first 2min video appeared the second, then the third and so on. What I noticed is lots of high heels, visible (colourful, shiny, glittering, layers, black transparent, etc) pantyhose (like in the 80’s), tight bodysuits and leotards (sometimes worn without a skirt – just a leotard and pantyhose), leather (leather boots, leather leotards, leather trousers, leather stockings) and I think I spotted some latex (latex stockings and latex leggings, probably I confused them with latex-like wetlook lycra, though).

Are we indeed going back to the 80’s with their aerobic style but in a more refined way? If you check women’s clothes departments you will notice that tight elasthan/lycra t-shirts fully replaced the cotton ones. The baggy rags disappeared. Skirts are getting shorter and shorts are more often to be seen.

Anyway, at least pantyhose are back to the street view!

Footwear	Too Sexy For Winter	Clubstyle
Black	The Tighter, The Better	Return of the 80's

Latex, ready-to-wear, spring 2007 and Stærk

Unlike Husseyn Chalayan you won’t find latex stockings here. Instead, Camilla Stærk used latex for tanks.

Even though I did latex in innocent and bright colors, there’s something naughty about it.

I would say not “naughtier” than a school uniform. It’s all in your mind 😉

And there is something for us men as well. If you like latex, you can wear a latex t-shirt or latex shirt under your regular clothes so that the collar is visible. See, for example, my swimsuit style. You can choose any colour, transparency and finish. You can make it either dull or shiny. It will look perfectly normal, and I bet not many people will even notice the “naughty material”.

Been there done that. Nobody cares. But be aware of sweat.
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Ready-to-wear latex, fashion and Hussein Chalayan

This guy is fantastic. He uses latex very smartly. But if in one of his previous collections latex stockings could be theoretically replaced with metallic lycra ones, no other material can replace molded latex in Hussein’s Spring Summer 2009 pret-a-porte. It’s just not possible. Only rubber can be used to create these aerodynamic dresses. Moreover, latex is pretty invisible here, it looks like fabric (hand-painted with images of crashed cars), it looks like thin light airy material despite the heavy boning and centimeters thick layers. No shine. Latex as the media not as the goal.

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Latex, Pret-a-Porte (Ready-to-Wear) and Hussein Chalayan- part 1

Haute couture and heavy rubber have definitely something in common. At least one thing – no relation to the everyday life. The percentage of the exceptions are far outside of the (Gaussian) standard deviation (pun intended 🙂

In other words, how can you introduce latex into your street, office, casual, evening clothes? Let’s ask professionals!

In his fall 2007 collection Hussein Chalayan showed that latex stockings and latex leggings can be worn with pretty much everything and look neither pervy nor freaky. The models were wearing the latex garment made by Atsuko Kudo throughout the whole show. Notice the absence of ugly folds you can find on cheap stuff many people complain about. If you want to wear latex in public – look for quality. The downside is – the quality is expensive.

See 46 photo and a video below.

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