It’s official: Haute Couture, mainstream and independent fashion designers have taken BDSM, Fetish and Kink and integrated them into their design inspirations. It’s about time. So I guess I can carry a crop down the street now, after all - it’s an accessory.

- Callie

Taking heels to crazy new heights for Spring 2009, these dangerous designer shoes were enough to make models stumble and fall on the runways. Walking in designer shoes is a catwalk model’s forte, so what hope do humble fashionistas have maintaining their dignity in them?

Designers from Dolce & Gabbana to Dior and Pucci to Prada all got in on the daunting killer heel action this season. If you have fallen in love with a pair, and you are brave enough to step out in one of these precarious looking pieces of footwear, perhaps you should consider finding a way to incorporate knee pads into your outfit–just to be on the safe side.

Via: nymag

Want to read more?

• Killer High Heels
• Angry Heels

Victorian Goth. Dark Couture. KinkGlam - whatever you want to call it, featuring Bondage & Fetish in mainstream fashion trends has moved beyond Vivien Westwood & Alexander McQueen.

I noticed this trend at the start of 2008; Chanel’s footwear and stocking ads in Vogue, W and Bazaar caught my attention. I thought to myself, “This is foot fetish that men pay for,” being brought to the mainstream masses for free in the glossy pages of haute couture magazines. So for 2009, more couture brands and upscale indie fashion designers are bringing Kink mainstream with bondage & fetish-inspired dresses, shoes and accessories.

I am elated to see it. I shows that mainstream society no longer equates BDSM with pornography and is finally recognizing Fetish as an art form that pays homage to alternative creativity and sexuality.

Fashionising.com, a fantastic blog written by Tania Baukamper, discusses the trend more in-depth and how it is translates in to 2009 trendsetters’  (Rihanna & Victoria Beckham) personal styles.

My next hope is that designers such as Chanel, Christian Louboutin, Givechy & Thakoon take it a step further and ditch the traditional runway models and feature of Fetish industry professionals in their advertising campaigns.

My suggestions: Model -  Kumi Monster Photographers - Steven Diet Goedde or Christine Kessler.

Photos: Kumi Monster in Atsuko Kudo & Fashionising.com.

I am addicted to Florian Meimberg and her blog mAdvertsing (built on Wordpress of course). Pictures are worth a thousand words. This beautiful, fashion/lingerie campaign start. Beautiful Florian, and congrats on the arrival of Jonas.

A good friend of mine and I were talking about Fetish and mainstream marketing. He had bought Ed Fox’s latest book from Taschen and fell in love with it. What came out of this minor “erotic awakening” was how fetishism has creeped into the marketing/advertising for clothing, lingerie and footwear. He now saw it everywhere, even when it wasn’t supposed to be there.

I said, “Darling, where do think the love of women’s’ feet began?” The book is beautiful, high-art and worth the purchase. Check it chickies!