The Clothed Avatar: Virtual Bodies in Latex Catsuits

Fetish

Latex.
Rubber.
The Catsuit.

When did fetish wear become mainstream clothing? Why do we see an endless stream of celebrities in skintight apparel once reserved for taboo fantasies? Is it a coincidence these erotic fashions are mainstream here in our 21st century moment? Or is it because of our 21st century moment?

Fantasy

With every iPhone. With every Google glass. Inexorably. We are drawn into a fantasy now world. It also is a fetishistic world. But a very different fetish. Cyborg fetish. Our technology seems to suggest that we are 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.

Like Eve and that impossible apple we fear that the technology of our desire is also the technology of our destruction. We long to lose ourselves in an orgy of technology. Yet we simultaneously hunger to define our individual bodies. Through hours at the gym. Through pec and breast and butt implants. Through injections of every kind. More and more we immerse in the vortex of technology. More and more we crave the touch of corporeality.

No wonder fetish wear is now day wear.

Plastic Reality

Where can the clothed body be experienced at its most dramatic? In the clothed avatar. In more virtual worlds than can ever be counted we upload ourselves, like Flynn in Tron, into worlds of pixels and polygons and avatar bodies. At the nexus of high tech and high touch is the clothed avatar body. As in RL, the VR avatar longs for the sensuality of shiny, instantiated, corporeal clothing. Clothing that makes the paradoxical “physical” presence of a “virtual” body tactile and real.

Is an avatar in a catsuit any more of a fantasy than a fleshvatar in a catsuit?

The Clothed Avatar

Today RL and VR are both filled with fetish fashion. With shiny plastic clothing. With latex catsuits. IRL we find designers like Syren, Ectomorph, Bondinage, Catfish Clothing, Tatjana Warnecke, Mother of London and others. In VR the names are different but the aesthetics map back and forth. In VR we experience designers like Madame Couturier, Elixir, Jackie Graves, Eclectic Randomness, Powers of Creation and others.

Here then is my latex catsuit fashion show on the catwalk of a virtual opium dream. Join me…

 

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Humane Fetish

• No fur.
• Cruelty free.

Stocking Info

The roles of Syren, Ectomorph & Naucler were played by Powers of Creation
• Syren
• Ectomorph
• Naucler
• Allsorts
• Powers of Creation

The role of Bondinage was played by Hugo’s Design
• Bondinage
• Hugo’s Design

The role of Catfish Clothing was played by Eclectic Randomness
• Catfish Clothing
• Eclectic Randomness

The role of Rebel NYC was played by Dance Island; the role of Lust Designs was played by Kayliwulf Kingdom
• Rebel NYC
• Dance Island
• Lust Designs
• Kayliwulf Kingdom

The role of Tatjana Warnecke was played by Jackie Graves
• Tatjana Warnecke
• Jackie Graves

The role of Mother of London was played by Elixir
• Mother of London
• Elixir

The role of Kaori’s Latex Dreams was played by Madame Couturier
• Kaori’s Latex Dreams
• Madame Couturier

HAIR, MAKEUP & SKIN CARE:
I try to use as many Ben Nye products as possible when I have these occasional makeup orgies. The guy invented pretty much everything. I try to honor that. And not to be bratty, but hair this long and full can be a lot of work. Embracing volume without turning into a rat’s nest is a project! Of course I only let José Eber touch my hair.
The role of Ben Nye was played by Eloh Eliot; the role of José Eber was played by Carina Larsen.
• Ben Nye
• Eloh Eliot
• José Eber
• Carina Larsen