Latex is conquering the fashion world more than ever before!

If its Lady Gaga, Madonna, Victoria Beckam or a bunch of fashion designers, they all have been using Latex as a attention and sale boost in their carrier. Which brought the shiny piece of course closer to the catwalk and the mainstream fashion, e.g. in form of latex leggings or mainly lycra leggings.

But believe it or not the British fashion store TopShop started selling glued latex clothing in their stores!

At the London Fashion Week 2010 they presented their new collection for this season, a rough Denim look with a shiny twist, LATEX.

The wide range of latex clothing introduced to the mainstream consumers included pencil skirts, jackets, very tight and loose tops, leggings and rubber cycling shorts.

So if you always have been wondering how it would be and what it would look like if latex hits the mainstream take a look at the new TopShop collection here or check out the short video.

Unfortunately,  most of the items have already been taken down from the online store, so we cant take a closer look at it, but honestly its also not its money worth!

TopShop claims to be a outrageous high fashion store with “purse-friendly prices” , but if I take a look at their shiny rubber items, it makes me wonder if they had a moment of amnesia, since they forgot all about fashion, the good look and of course the affordable prices!

Seriously, who would give £ 80 for a simple top like that or worse £ 110 for those cycling shorts? To give you a better alternative take a look at Libidex or House of Harlot. They offer a good fitting fashionable range of latex clothing to a fair price. And if you hurry you will get the Valentines deal at Libidex with 25% off!

Or DIY! You can start with my latex leggings tutorial.
I think one of my next projects will be a tutorial on how to make the TopShop Latex Clothing yourself.

My husband, who is known as 3xL,  is going to give away a Blackstyle gift voucher worth EUR 150 on October 1st! It’s really simple to enter the contest, just check out what you need to do in his Latex Twitter Contest.

This is a great oppertunity for latex crafters there would like to win some free supplies for making latex clothing. With a Blackstyle gift voucher like that, you can buy latex sheeting, latex cement, liquid latex, latex strips and a lot of other good things at Blackstyle!

Nothing beats a real “hands on” when it comes to doing your own latex clothing! You really don’t have any idea of how it is, before you given it a try.
While most people go out and buy all the tools needed for making latex clothing themselves and learn it the hard way, some people take a shortcut and attend a latex class or workshop. It’s a great way to “test the water” and establish if it’s something for you or not.

Here is a list of people who offer latex classes around the world:

• Polly Pandemonium – World wide.
• Robert Anton – U.S.
• Ego-assassin - Canada
• RubberAngel - Berlin

If you know of other classes or Workshops, please drop me a mail, I would love to add them to the list.

This month Blackstyle offers a 20% discount on their 4D latex sheeting, stripes and tubing!

Furthermore, they have widend thier range of zippers and metal parts for us latex crafters.

So hurry up and check out their sale, it last only to the 31.07.2009!

And while you shop on discount, have a look on their latex supplies. Blackstyle offers all kind of goodies you need to make your own latex clothing, from thinner and glue to precut latex strips.

I just made a new gallery section, where I will post photos of things I made for myself, husband and friends. I already added some photos and I hope to post as many more. Check out my latex gallery.

Furthermore, I’m also planning on adding a readers gallery, with photos of the things that YOU made! The idea is to show all that everybody can make their own latex clothing with success.

So, if you have something that you would like to show off, then please send me a email containing your name, the photo and a little description, so it can be featured in the readers gallery.

Thanks a lot.

Kitty

It’s been some time since I posted, I have been occupied with my wedding and the wedding after party, so I could not find time for anything else.

It’s amazing how many things you need to do before you are getting married. The wedding went fine and we really had a great time. Next up was our kinky wedding after party, and of course I had to make a latex wedding outfits for me and my husband!

I made a long white latex wedding gown for myself, using a brought pattern I adjusted to fit me.

The gown has a deep cut out in both front and back. The front part is gathered under the breast with pleats. There are extra linings in white around the cut outs and a sweet white bow in front to finalize the decolté.

For my husband I made of course a latex suit.
The suit consists of a white latex shirt and suit pants. The latex shirt has double cuffs and a regular botton line in front with pearl buttons to close it.

The latex suit pants have two pockets in front and the back. The back pockets have as well real buttons in to close them.

I made the pattern using the suit he was wearing at our wedding.

I am very happy with the outcome and got a lot of positive comments about it from friends and family.

My favourite latex sheet manufacture – Radical Rubber has come out with 11 fantastic new latex colors in the last six month.

Some of the colors are already available on Radical Rubbers website, the others will soon follow.

But you can already check all of them out on Libidex new color chart.

I already found my favorite colors; translucent lilac, nigthshade blue, medical red, metallic black and the delicious chocolate.

It is so great with so many possibilities and combinations. I love it!