“Not so long ago, a woman in a skin-tight rubber dress with a fitted corset shrinking her waist and a pair of unsteady stilettos would have been leered at by men and sneered at by women. Leather corsets, PVC skirts and rubber catsuits were mainly the preserve of those familiar with the fetish scene.
Not any more. Such overtly sexual outfits are increasingly being seen on the world’s catwalks. This week they will take centre stage at the World Creative Forum, as part of the London Design Festival, where fashion gurus will hail the growth of fetishism in fashion. As festival director Ben Evans put it: ‘The underground has become overground.”
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