# Project Description "Lathered in leather and plasticised fabrics" Eve Andrews Summary Final work MA Fashion Curation and Cultural Programming graduate. MA Fashion Curation and Cultural Programming graduate. College London College of Fashion Course MA Fashion Curation and Cultural Programming Graduation year 2025 “Lathered in leather and plasticised fabrics” : How can the affective dimensions of textile-oriented fetishism be collected and preserved in the archive? The latex catsuit, the patent black heel, the riding crop; the nylon stocking peeking from underneath the hem of a rubber maid costume; the leather vest, Doc Martens and lambskin military cap. Alone these objects may appear inconspicuous, or attract an inquiring or unsettled glance. When experienced together however these garments converge into familiar archetypes of the dominatrix, the gimp, and the mustached leather daddy; the capable handmaidens of fetish. These determined symbols, although visually tantalising, remain insufficient in communicating the nuances of erotic exchange, and further still, the embodied experience of communing with these objects. While much has been done to proliferate the aesthetic of fetishism in popular culture, few have asked what is it like to wear fetish garments? Informed by feminist and affective theories of wearing, this research project aims to discern and outline methods through which the sensory, embodied experience of textile-oriented fetishism can be delineated. In doing so it argues that this flavour of fetishism is constituted not only by the garments in and of themselves, but the complex sequence of affects that communing with them stirs in the body. The research responds to the UK Fetish Archive’s repository of visual and object-based representations of fetishism, and asks how this information can be used to augment and contextualise their collection. Though a series of sensory interviews this project has generated insights into the sensuous dimensions of fetishists’ relationship to their clothing and by extension explores the degree to which materiality can mediate our perception of ourselves and the world around us. Final work Share this project “Lathered in leather and plasticised fabrics”: How can the affective dimensions of textile-oriented fetishism be collected and preserved in the archive?The latex catsuit, the patent black heel, the riding crop; the nylon stocking peeking from u... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard