Drawing on the two designers’ distinct styles, the collaborative three-piece look combines their mutual interest in fetishism as a private and fluid form of self actualisation.

While sex is central to the human experience, open expressions of sexual exploration and creativity are (still!) often relegated to subculture status and stigmatized as “other.” The implicit judgement meted on diverse and authentic forms of sexual
creativity has left a void in culture that has been filled almost exclusively with easily commercialisable, male-gaze expressions of kink and fetishism.

The inspiration behind the chainmail set was derived from exploring kink as deviance versus kink as play. Archetypal fem-doms such as Joan of Arc, Aeon Flux and Xena the