The magazine hosts this ball for fetish-related wear and people into fetishism and BDSM in general. It's the central event in a weekend of fetish parties, held in London annually.

All three were original Skin Two club insiders, involved in helping with the club’s launch in January 1983. Daniel was actually co-founder of the club, and his involvement led to his creating the first rubber clothing designs for women that looked good enough to be worn in public as fashion rather than just in the bedroom. This also led to a long and productive photographic partnership between Daniel and the late, great Bob Carlos Clarke.The talk will cover the changeover that occurred after David Claridge left the club and it changed its name to Maitresse. This freed up the Skin Two name for use as the title of a new fanzine-style magazine to be launched by Tim Woodward and Grace Lau about a year after the original club opened. LateXtra: a magazine about latex, and a few things extra. Produced by Rachel May who is part of the team who create the famous Skin Two magazine. We decided that we wanted to do a 'public' fetish party because in the early 90s there was a lot of tabloid/police interest in fetish clubs and people were getting closed down by raids in the summer of 92, so we decided that instead of hiding and going quietly, the thing to do would be to hold a more open event, invite the press, let everyone know that the press were there, get them to show up in the mood for a fun party rather than anything more full-on and have a public celebration of dressing-up and general sauciness. It grew from an event for 2,000 people in 1992 to a bursting to capacity 4,500 people crammed into Hammersmith Palais by 1994." Club Nights [ edit ] The original Skin Two club was very, very dark and the atmosphere was testy and to the outsider, somewhat foreboding. I was physically threatened several times in the early days. Non fetishists, like myself, were certainly not made to feel welcome and possibly not without good reason. Many people who wanted to go to the Club would have had day jobs that could have been ruined if photographs of them in a "seedy Soho nightclub" got published in the wrong places. Indeed, when the British gutter press found out about the secret night life of Roland Rat, David had to end his association with Skin Two and the once a week club closed. If there‘s time, the three speakers will give a flavour of what each went on to do beyond their involvement in the original Skin Two club. And if there’s still time after that, they’ll be available for an audience Q&A.

As a freelance writer, Olley has contributed to The Sunday Times (cover feature, 'More Is More' [22]), NOW, The Independent on Sunday, The Guardian, i-D, The Fashion, Minx, Looks, DJ and Attitude. The circus is coming to town – as well as fetish, the dress code also includes clowns, lions, bears, tigers, ponies, ringmasters and mistresses, etc.The girl in the box was Michelle Olley. She modelled for me in a story I did called Sister Honey... She was a writer and I remember she wrote a great piece on being the Butterfly Girl in the middle of that (McQueen) Glass Box show. I was sat on the front row, in between Alexandra Schulman and Gwyneth Paltrow. It was is probably one of the best pieces of Fashion Theatre I have ever witnessed." [10] The magazine hosted a Rubber Ball for fetish-related wear and people into fetishism and BDSM in general. This was the central event in a weekend of fetish parties, held in London annually. Scope and content The original LateXtra was first published around the late 90s and has continued somewhat irregularly over the years. It was released as a free magazine between issues of Skin Two, focussing mainly on the Skin Two Rubber Ball, UK events and other related topics. Honour is also not going away. We have launched our fashion label under HonourClothing.com. You can expect more styles, designs and garments in a variety of alternative materials. Our brand of PVC and latex clothing will still carry the Honour Clothing name which we are extremely proud of. Honour Clothing will explore uncharted territory and bring a new level of individuality to your wardrobe. Both Skin Two and Honour Clothing will still be a part of the same HNR Group family. Come on the journey with us. We’re ready to shake things up!