tie me up, tie me down (part II/bring on the editorials)

Photo by Bruno Dayan

Photos by Tiziano Magni for WestEast Magazine's Sex issue. Styled by Ting Ting Lin and rope work by Midori. Unfortunately the photos from this spread are proving extremely difficult to find, but a few more of them can be found here.

Another Magni photo, but not sure where it's from. Got the photo from his site.

Thomas Rusch's Fashion Victims shoot.

sources: google images, tiziano magni, thomas rusch

tie me up, tie me down (part I)

Shibari is a word mostly used by westerners to describe the art of Kinbaku, which is Japanese erotic bondage that has been around since the late Edo Period and has been co-opted by the Western BDSM scene. I've been fascinated by the idea taking this rope tying into fashion for a while, and I'm not the only one.


A couple of the tamer photographs by Araki, famed Japanese photographer of kinbaku among other erotic subjects.

Shibari/kinbaku-inspired lingerie from Coco de Mer

Marios Schwab SS08

Marios Schwab SS09

Here's where the shibari/kinbaku really begins to come out. Me gusta.

Thakoon SS09

Not technically rope, but of the same spirit.

sources: coco de mer, style.com