Apr 212026
- Last month I posted the wrong URL for the Canadian documentary series KINK (2001). You can get the entire series here.
- Back in 2005, Valerie Steele, author of Fetish and The Corset, gave a talk at Cornell about fetish fashion history.
- RUSSH magazine in 2021 writes about the history of the intersection between fashion and fetish/BDSM. “But when mainstream fashion adopts culturally significant optics from those whose identities sit in the marginal rings of society in the hope to capitalise on a subversive trend, what does it mean for the communities who pioneered the kink movement in the first place?”
- Grailed provides a short history of the meeting of BDSM and high fashion
- So.gay highlights fashion designers who have been inspired by (taken from?) the kink subculture.
- From Archive.org:
- A number of issues of lesbian BDSM magazine Bad Attitude.
- A number of issues of lesbian sex magazine On Our Backs.
- Bondage Life 82 (2001)
- The Sexual Fetish in Today’s Society, by Hugh Jones (1965)
