VASTA EDITIONS Eros Series #010

THE PATENT LEATHER MADONNA

'Zine #010 in our Eros Series focuses on Carlo, the pseudonymous artist whose BDSM illustrations were featured in dozens of French fetish Publications. These "Flagellation Novels" featured images of enslavement, domination, human pets, cosplay, whipping, inventive torture devices, and leather goddesses. We chose some of our favorites for this volume.

40 pages + covers, b&w and color illustrations digital offset, Edition of 100, 5.5 x 8.25". Copyright @ Vasta Editions, LLC. New York City, 2026. $18.00

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EXOTIQUE Magazine 1950s Fetish Fashions

EXOTIQUE Magazine 1950s Fetish Fashions

A miscellany from the Vasta archives of magazines published by Exotique magazine aka Burmel Publications. Photographs, illustrations, fetish fashion. All digest sized from the late 1950s 

featuring the "bizarre and the unusual".

Exotique Personality Series #3 featuring Lynne Carter

Photo Album #4

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BIZARRE LIFE Magazine: Fem/Dom Fetishism S/M 1960s

Spinning out of the universe of the New York based specialty publishers like Selbee and Burmel came Bizarre Life. The first issue, inspired by both Bizarre and Exotique magazines, was published by Unique Publications in Toronto. The content but was harder edged leaning towards fem/dom photo stories, fantasy articles and illustrations by Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew. Issue two came from BiLife Publications in Delaware, which eventually changed to Condolidated Publications. Bizarre Life's "fetish fashions" photographs were greatly influenced by the English magazine Atomage, published by John Sutcliffe. Early issues have contributions that are clearly from Atomage and similar English rubber and leather fetish publications. Here's a taste of the first few issues.

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Exotique Magazine: Burmel Publications 1950s Complete Set

Complete set of thirty-eight issues of Exotique magazine published in New York City by Burmel Publications 1955 ~ 1959. Featuring the Bizarre and the Unusual, fetish fashions and female domination. Cover illustrations by Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew. The complete set of Exotique magazine is available for sale, email for details.

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UTOPIA Publishing: Fads & Fancies 1950s Janine

The exceptional fetish fancier's magazine, first published in England, 1948 by Benson Herbert. Each issue from Utopia bore a different title (see link) similar  to those posted listed here: Snap, Haywire, Blue Stories, Cuban Capers, Heebee Jeebees and Hubba Hubba. Serious collectors of these magazines, filled with stories and illustrations about voluptuous females in restrictive clothing and foot wear, estimate about 80 different titles were published. 

The obsessive texts brought to life the stylized illustrations, signed Janine, used throughout each issue and on each cover. Janine, a pseudonym for Reina Bull, was an accomplished illustrator of fantasy and sci-fi book covers. The illustrations, of well endowed  busty ladies with large derrieres, bulging thighs and calves, were caricature-like fantasy creatures. 

Particular obsessions were for corsets, tiny waists, stocking tops revealing garter belts and straps, ultra-high high heels, tightly laced calf-high boots, stockings, girdles, restrictive foundations and frilly, frou-frou lingerie from the turn-of-the-century. 

The first five covers are of the original magazines found on the web. The second group are reprints from the mid-1960s (from my archives) with two replacement cover illustrations by Gene Bilbrew, possibly pirated. 

Click here to see Steve Holland's excellent blog about Utopia and Reina Bull.

Following are Utopia reprints circa mid-1960s. Fads & Fancies numbers 4, 5 and 6. The covers for numbers 5 and 6 are illustrations by American fetish illustrator, Gene Bilbrew, aka Eneg.

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