Somewhere between attitude-laden rock star and ladylike vintage belle is Gucci’s fall 2013 woman. She’s a girl who wears a knee length houndstooth tailored skirt suit – with a second-skin black leather rollneck underneath. She pairs a silk dress that flows like molten liquid metal with a pair of knee-high blue python boots. She’s not afraid of flamboyant embroidery and she knows how to make…

Sometimes pieces on a runway look amazing when part of the procession, but not so great when divorced from the whole. Others stand out as being the kind of pieces you’d want to buy and wear, regardless of what else they’re paired with. The London fashion week runways we’ve just witnessed have brought to light a vast variety of looks, from teeny shimmering cocktail dresses…

Like so many other things that were only recently considered too sexually charged to comfortably see the light of day, in a few short years the leather harness has infiltrated the realms of what we consider fashionable. That may sound like a critique but I can assure you it’s not; it’s merely a fact. When bondage and fetish fashion first hit our trend radars back…

Mise en Cage’s lingerie selections are always so impressive that it would take effort not to photograph them in an ultra-sexy light. None the less, it takes the right photographer to really, really amp it up a notch and create images that are about more than the bondage-inspired underwear pieces, images you can look at over and over again and not tire of. I’m not…

This shoot is “a story of a horse and her master”, as photographer Mark Drew explains it. Model Daria is the horse; bound up in harnesses and saddles of the actual equine kind (not the usual fetish-come-fashion leather harness accessories). Even her hair, styled by Livio Angileri into braids that encircle her neck, is representative of her state of submissiveness. By the end of Drew’s…

You can easily call it the ultimate Gray effect, because this year of fashion seems to have been entirely veiled by an outrageous number of shades, all hiding deeper meanings and all exuding of bold erotic connotations. Every seductive photo shoot was marked by either subtle, or more obvious BDSM elements that rapidly generated a strong trend among photographers. Julia Kiecksee recreated her unique vision…

Eniko Toth Kern makes unique, decadent shoes. The Hungarian designer only graduated in 2011, but her spring 2013 campaign caught our attention two-fold: for its footwear, and for the simple yet effective use of polaroids – gritty, scratchy, double-exposed and almost fetishist in their enthusiastic anonymity. Toth Kern’s spring collection features lots of lacing, some harness strapping, and a palette of black, nude, and metallic…

I’ll disclaim from the outset that the title of this post is inaccurate: “best”, when it comes to any form of art, is subjective. There’s no right or wrong on what can be called the best when it comes to fashion shoots, but there’s only so much you can explain in a title so I’ll say it here instead. There are certain editorials that stand…

For a photographer, life itself is a constant quest for subjects and locations; even when holidaying, eyes are always open to opportunity. A photographer peers through an imagined lens, assessing every backdrop and every face. So when Marijo Cobretti came across this unique warehouse setting in Germany, staging a photoshoot inside was a must.

In a world that’s built upon the greatest expectations, and filled with preconceptions and misleading roads, loosing yourself to temptation and exploring your sexuality is part of the natural but controversial process that now sets the theme for Florin Dobre’s autumn / winter 2012/13 Campaign. The Romanian designer unveiled an unprejudiced universe as the backdrop for his latest collection, meant to celebrate the evolution of…