Latex Catsuits!

Latex Catsuits!

Liz Bowman in Moonbase Catsuit by Tatjana Warnecke
Aero Bigboots in a Moonbase Alpha catsuit by Jackie Graves.
Beau Garrett as Gem in Tron Legacy. A fleshvatar as an avatar in latex.

Fetish

When did fetish wear become mainstream clothing? Why do we see an endless stream of celebrities in skintight apparel once reserved for taboo fantasies? Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Cameron Diaz, Lady Gaga, Tyra Banks, Shania Twain, Rhiana, Katy Perry — you’ve seen them all wearing latex catsuits.

Fantasy

With every iPhone and Google glass we’re drawn into a fantasy/fetish cyborg world. Our technology suggests that we’re leaving the corporeal body behind. We obsess over this technology. We lust for it. We can’t get it fast enough.

But we are afraid of it.

Angelina Jolie, a fleshvatar, performing as avatar Lara Croft in a silver catsuit.

We fear that the technology of our desire is also the technology of our destruction. We’re lost in an orgy of technology. We hunger to define our individual bodies. Through hours at the gym. Through pec and breast and butt implants. Through injections. We immerse in body technology. And still we crave a human touch.

Fetish wear is our uniform now.

Before and after images of Liz Bowman catsuit makeup tutorial
Cheerleading “Girl Next Door?” Or Goth Girl in a catsuit?
Liz Bowman wearing a Bondinage catsuit and corset in Trilby Minotaur's Opium Den installation at Gallery Xue / Amsterdam
Next stop: Trilby Minotaur’s opium den in SL Amsterdam!

The Clothed Avatar

Second Life, like First Life, is filled with fetish fashion. With shiny plastic clothing. With latex catsuits.

FL Latex Designers

  • Syren
  • Ectomorph
  • Bondinage
  • Catfish Clothing
  • Tatjana Warnecke
  • Mother of London

SL Latex Designers

  • Madame Couturier
  • Elixir
  • Jackie Graves
  • Eclectic Randomness
  • Powers of Creation and others.
Liz Bowman wearing a black catsuit fitted with inflatable latex breasts and standing in shallow water near San Francisco Bay
“Inflatable Latex Boobs” by Eclectic Randomness, catsuit by Powers of Creation
Liz Bowman at Gallery Xue Taipei wearing Nuacler latex 50's inspired flare dress
Mid-century inspired latex Petticoat Dress from Powers of Creation.
Liz Bowman wearing latex supergirl costume
Supergirl outfit by Madame Couturier.

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