Put this date in your calendar: Thursday 30th June, from 7pm onwards at Resistance Gallery, 265 Poyser Street, Bethnal Green, London E2 9RF.

There will be an exhibition of works by Terry Mendoza and other artists or performers who is seen as a part of the Fet-X family.

Fet-X would love you to come and celebrate with them: artists, designers, friends and supporters are all welcome. Come along, meet interesting people, get the new magazine and maybe get inspired to start new projects.

RSVP. For joining send an email to: event@fet-x.com

The cover model is the Swiss pin-up model Loulou von Brochwitz. The inside of the magazine is adorned with the following beauties: Comtesse Léa, Dea Donatella, Nadine X and Sway. Photos by Peter W. Czernic and Stefan Gesell. See the latest latex fashion from HMS Latex, Venus Prototype and Inner Sanctum. Last but not the least, there is a 8 page special feature about my book – Rubber Life.

Get your copy now or even subscribe at Marquis website.

The magazine first saw the light of day this year and have recently published it’s second issue, featuring to fetish felines such as Masumi Max, Brittanya, Ulorin Vex, Kelly Eden, Lauren WK, Megan Renee, Jessica Lynn and Jeska.

Subscribe online on the Alt Exclusive website or buy the magazine in print at any convenient store such as 7-eleven, Barnes and noble, Boarders, etc across the U.S.

For early devotees of leather, rubber and vinyl fetish wear, AtomAge magazine was the underground bible of the 1970s. Founded, designed and published by the English designer John Sutcliffe as a platform for his extraordinary talents as a manufacturer of weatherproofs for lady pillion riders, it quickly became a rallying point for explorers of every kind of fledgling clothing scene, functioning as both an instruction manual and a mirror.

The experimental clothing showcased in its pages, including items made by the readers themselves, transformed a passion for a sexual proclivity into a cult phenomenon. From motorbiking and mask-wearing, to mudlarking and wading worship, AtomAge covered every conceivable variant on and use for fetish wear. The amateur photographs reproduced here reflect a golden age of DIY enthusiasm, before fetish became the industry it is today, and inadvertently depict a suburbia from which dressing for pleasure was a necessary escape.

The outrageous costumes found in AtomAge also served as inspiration to a then-new generation of fashion designers such as Vivienne Westwood, and many of these costumes have since been acquired by high-end collections. Compiling the most astonishing imagery from all 32 issues of this now extremely rare and sought after cult magazine, Dressing for Pleasure illustrates not just Sutcliffe’s exceptional designs, but also, through their own photography and writings, the fantasies and desires of the AtomAge followers.

Jonny Trunk tells about his first meeting with AtomAge:

This book all began on a visit to my old chums Whitaker Malem. Patrick Whitaker and Kier Malem are leather artisans who work in the fashion, art and film business. When not designing costumes for cinematic superheroes like Batman they’re dressing Allen Jones sculptures or making weird chairs or something. Anyway we were having a cup of Mellow Birds and talking about film music when I spied a small A5 magazine on their workbench. I picked it up and was immediately engaged by the simplicity, crudeness, inspired photography and folk arty oddness of the whole thing. The magazine was called AtomAge and within about 30 seconds of seeing it I knew I’d have to investigate it all further. And so I did.

Guardian also has an article on John Sutcliffe:

The British fetish industry has surprisingly practical beginnings. In 1957, John Sutcliffe, a former aircraft engineer from Hampstead, was taking a girlfriend out for a trip on his motorbike. Heavy rain soaked her through, no motorcycle clothing being available for women at the time. “So I went into Soho and bought a dozen skins of red leather,” Sutcliffe said, “and asked my landlady if I could borrow her sewing machine.” The result was not only a waterproof suit for Sutcliffe’s friend, but also the birth of AtomAge, a clothing label and magazine that brought a fetish for rubber and leather into the open for the first time.

Order “Dressing for Pleasure – The Best of AtomAge” from my UK Book Store or US Book Store.

SDk takes full advantage of an innovative format to deliver its avant-garde mix of dark glamour and eroticism in photography, art and edgy fiction; of poignant nonfiction and criticism; and of exhibition, film and book reviews – all in the social, political and economic context of today’s disturbed world.

SDk additionally strives to be a valuable resource and, concerned with the world around us, is also a forum for re-assessing what is of value in contemporary society.

You’ll find the premier issue at SomethingDark.eu

The first issue has in-depth articles and stellar pictorials of Ava Garter, Anastasia Pierce and Penthouse Pet of the Year, Heather Vandeven, who graces the premier issue’s cover. Fashion-forward companies grace the glossy pages, including unique and utterly extravagant Antiseptic, alternative brand Emile Jerard and Japanese latex designer Atsuko Kudo. Photographer Justice Howard brings classic fairytales to life in an enchanting four-page layout. Fantasy events around the country receive full coverage. And, not to be missed are columns by sexologist Midori and Nurse Laurel of MedicalToys.com. The first issue is jam-packed and will definitely be a collector’s item. Von Gutenberg retails for $19 and is published quarterly.

Von Gutenberg is distributed by RCS Distribution and can be found on Amazon.com, nationwide in Barnes & Noble and newsstands around the country. And, it is already available in Europe.

Entrepreneur, publisher and Von Gutenberg contributor, Erik Von Gutenberg, is ecstatic about the new publication. “When people think about fashion, fantasy and lifestyle, I hope the name Von Gutenberg will be the first thing that comes to mind. We have strived for this magazine to be very different and extremely memorable. I’m excited about the first issue and hope it will be well received, but I’m even more excited about the future issues that will have some well known cover models from the music industry along with other alternative and creative names who are famous in every corner of the globe. I would tell you who, but then it wouldn’t be a surprise.”

For more information please visit Von Gutenberg at: www.vongutenberg.com

The magazine goes down south in July’s “The 21st Centry Sex Issue” where it explores lacy lingerie and kinky playrooms, is lead astray in the world of Fetters, the Savile Row of S&M outfitters and break the code and decipher the mysterious lexicon of today’s sexual subcultures and much more. Everything represented with Wallpapers* well slick graphic design style!

I must own this issue! See you at the news stand!

LustLoveLatex.com got the story of SkinTwo Magazine’s new owner, a guy called Dark.

Dark says: “The magazine will not cease publication, but it will go back to fetish’s roots.”

“SKII success was its undoing. It tried to get people to accept rubber as fashionable and normalized somewhat. That’s what happened. With the internet all these mom and pop shops opened up, people got to do their own soft core porn without fear using digital media and video and pay for view rubber soft core and hard core porn site and SKII became a gossip rag for the fetish glitterati and less about getting people to accept rubber as fashionable and edgy. And then there were the pop culture adapters who made rubber de rigeur for being a pop tart.”

“Rubber may not be seen on every main or high street, but there are no barriers anymore except the ridiculous price, the fact that the stuff is ‘delicate’, expensive to maintain, hard to get on and off, uncomfortable to wear, a problem wearing in sunlight and so forth.”

“With my new editorship, I hope to bring fetish back to its roots: to closets, basements and bedrooms across the world, and move away from the ‘glitterati’ and frivolous partygoing that’s infected our subculture.”

“Our first cover model, Latex Lady personifies Skin Two’s new ethos–a modest woman living out her fantasies in her home, unseen and unrecognized even while traveling in full latex.”

We got a copy of the first edition and has published the cover. We will miss the old Skin Two and its original owners, but we wish Dark the best with his new magazine.

“MyFetishCafe.com is garnering thousands of hits in just the few weeks it’s been up,” says Entrepreneur, Erik von Gutenberg. “Marquis Magazine and DVDs are well respected in the fetish community, so it seemed logical to start a social networking site. We are trading banners, looking into affiliate programs and are confident this site will blow up.”

The cover model is the beautiful Bianca Beauchamp, this time as a rubber nun. The magazine features a full spread of various photos of Bianca in latex. A full article + an up to date and candid interview with Bianca accompanies the shiny and impressive 11 page feature.

More details at Marquis website.