Latex fetish:
bondage or freedom?
Date:2021.1
Visual essay
Visual essay
Westwood said: "The bondage clothes were ostensibly restrictive, but when you put them on they give yovu a feeling of freedom.”Steele (1996 , quoted in Westwood) in her 1996 book Fetish: Fashion, Sex& Power.
This visual essay is the final product of my design research of latex fetishism, through the research of latex fetish groups, material subcultures, culture and history of latex fetishes. This visual essay expounds the unique charm of latex clothing, the motivation for wearing latex clothing and the subculture behind it from a first-person perspective.
This visual essay is the final product of my design research of latex fetishism, through the research of latex fetish groups, material subcultures, culture and history of latex fetishes. This visual essay expounds the unique charm of latex clothing, the motivation for wearing latex clothing and the subculture behind it from a first-person perspective.
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