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Vikram Kumar asked:


Contrary to popular perceptions, you do not have to be tall and thin to become a photo model. If you want to model, you do not have to lose all of your fat for you to become famous. What is more, modeling is not limited to ramp and fashion modeling only. There are various kinds of models. The most sought-after type of job would be the opportunity to sashay around in designer clothes. The next type of model is one who poses for commercials, ads, billboards, or catalogues. If you belong to this category, you are not required to lose weight to fit into dresses. On the other hand, showroom or fit models try on the sample clothing of designers for the sake of the clients and the designer. The last type of modeling category is artistic or fetish modeling. If you want to land this kind of job, you have to listen carefully the photographer because fetish shootings require a lot of acting and details.

Glamour or fetish models should be 18 years old and above. This is due to the fact that there will be instances wherein they will be asked to pose nude or wearing sexy clothing. Glamour photography usually involves a little nudity, while there are some women who are asked to pose wearing lingerie. When it comes to fetish images, there is an inclusion of leather garments, nylon stockings, tight corsets, or latex clothes. This type of modeling can be both exciting and demanding. Fetish modeling is appropriate for girls who are brave enough to act out erotic role playing. What is more, this is suitable for women who are blessed with flawless and nice curvy bodies since they will be wearing sexy outfits.

If you are interested in fetish photography and japanese bondage pictures, you can check out I Love French Girls. This blog is run by Jerome Gouvrion aka jG, an expert photographer from Paris (France). He has published more than 50.000 fetish pictures over the web. The quality of the images that jG comes up with are excellent. These usually feature girls wearing beautiful outfits in latex, pvc, leather or rubber. Some women are bound with tight ropes while some models are playing the mistress smiling about the situation. I Love French Girls also propose a lot of comments about the shootings and the photographer’s philosophy who spread a positive attitude for this kind of pictures.

The models modeling for Jerome Gouvrion are known as “the french girls” and get a worldwide exposure due to the millions of people watching his websites. Working with jG is definitely for all women involved in the fetish universe and who love to show off their bodies online. The culture of glamour situations, shibari and latex has made jG among the top sellers of bondage and fetish productions within Europe. The difference of this site from other bdsm websites is that it does not portray women as sexual objects. The website of jG does not display photos of girls who are belittled or abused. Jerome Gouvrion keeps in mind the notion of respect when he shoots his photos or videos and that makes a real difference. That’s the reason why these happy slaves and bound girls pictures are considered by several women as aesthetic and exciting.

Debbie Mendoza asked:


Burlesque & pinup fashions are everywhere on the Internet. The early burlesque designs with their risqué overtones have been reborne. Almost every city now hosts a regular burlesque event where performers, & audience too gets to dress the part.

Origins of burlesque – lingerie on show!

The word burlesque probably derives from the French, which describes a piece of slightly outrageous, humorous art. In the 1840s the term burlesque originally applied to shows intended for middle or lower classes. Such shows lampooned upper class niceties and parodying upper class entertainments like opera & dance. Such music and comedy shows and plays grew in popularity on both sides of the Atlantic during the nineteenth century. In Victorian England, where even “a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking”, burlesque challenged its audience by offering rather more than a “glimpse of stocking” – the lure of young ladies appearing in tights and lingerie! Certainly demure by today’s standards these slightly suggestive interludes certainly boosted the popularity of burlesque. When, in the late 1860’s Lydia Thompson took her burlesque troupe, called the British Blondes, to New York they were an immediate hit. At first they were feted by the press, but before long strident voices, from the pulpit and the papers were complaining of loose morals and indecency. The result of all this adverse publicity was to spread the word about burlesque far and wide in America effectively having the reverse effect to that desired by burlesque’s critics – female burlesque troupes with close copies of the original British act sprung up around the country.

These shows owed a great deal of their structure to the minstrel shows of the time and generally consisted of three parts – the initial section featuring the ladies, the middle section was a mix of male comedians and specialty acts and the final part the grand finale. Copying Lydia Thompson’s lead, most of the troupes had female managers. However towards the end of the nineteenth century, as male managers took over, they switched the emphasis away from comedy to push boundaries, determined to show as much uncovered female flesh as the laws would allow.

This form of entertainment metamorphosed in the early twentieth century into a mix of music hall, satire and striptease. During the twenties the bias continued inexorably towards striptease and away from the accompanying elements. This shift doubtlessly was burlesque’s downfall; by the thirties the popularity of burlesque dropped away probably reacting against what had become slightly tawdry striptease shows. Local authorities were no longer as tolerant of this entertainment, which had lost much of its music hall variety flavor.

New Burlesque

In the mid nineteen nineties the genre was resurrected, with troupes in the USA, and the trend has snowballed over to the UK. Now, once more on both sides of the channel, it is possible to see shows equal in glamour, bawdiness and variety to equal the art form in its heyday in clubs and theatres in major cities. Arguably the Internet has played a major part to spread the interest in the genre. There are websites, such as Ministry of Burlesque dedicated to promoting it, to teaching dance, makeup and fashion.

Burlesque lingerie fashion

The mainstay of this style is lingerie and modern burlesque generally concentrates on the fifties and to a lesser degree the forties look. This extends not only to clothing, but hats, footwear and makeup too. There have always been fans of fifties silk and nylon stockings. The majority stocking mills closed up shop when pantyhose all but killed the stocking market. Their huge stocking machines were destroyed and along with it the expertise to manufacture fully-fashioned stockings. Now the rare machines remaining are being rebuilt and returned to service to again produce faux fifties seamed stockings. However a few companies trading online still have limited supplies of the original fifties stockings so the purists can satisfy their need to the ‘real thing’ rather than the modern copies. Sadly, once that depleting stock is exhausted, they will only be viewable in museums and private collections.

However, for burlesque stage performance it is the fishnet tights or pantyhose that are still really popular.

Companies are making exact copies both of retro costumes and burlesque accessories, from ostrich feather fans to bullet bras. Lingerie companies, sensing an opportunity not to be missed, are enticing well-known burlesque artists to lend their names and expertise to burlesque-inspired lingerie designs.

Of course, because burlesque is so empowering to women, not only is there no set figure – all physiques are equally welcomed, but there is not set ‘burlesque costume’ either. It is very common for burlesque artists to take everyday lingerie, adapt it by sewing on sequins to devise their own unique take on burlesque. However the common thread that runs through the new outfits, going right back to the earliest days of the art form is the element of ‘tease’, the showing of rather more lingerie and stocking tops that would normally be seen in everyday life.

Rockabilly fashion

Over the years a number of fashion styles have grown towards each other, oft times overlapping. The word rockabilly was used around the mid forties and was a blend of hillbilly and rock and roll music styles. Todays pinup photographers generally recreate the stylish fifties imagery which overlaps but is distinct from rockabilly. It is not de rigueur to have tattoos and piercings for rockabilly, although many fans certainly do.

Pinup fashion

The term pinup also has blurred origins, covering photos of movie stars from around the thirties and forties, but also the airbrushed fantasy women gracing men’s magazines by such exponents as Petty and Elvgren. The fashions often featured nylons and lingerie, sometimes being exposed by a sudden unexpected gust of wind or other ‘mishap’ that befell the model. The style was to tease and to reveal very little by today’s standards. There is no doubt that pinup art, with the sexy lingerie has strongly influenced the outfits adopted by many of today’s burlesque artists.

Vikram Kumar asked:


For girls who want to try out modeling, they think that they require losing all of their fat to become one. There are different areas of modeling and losing fat does not apply to all these categories. When you want to try your hand at posing for the camera, your opportunities are not limited to catwalks. You can still be a famous model even if you are not sashaying for top designers all throughout the world. The first type of modeling job which ranks first is fashion or ramp modeling. When you are within this category, you get the chance to model the latest clothing designs. The second type of modeling job is getting into ads, catalogues, billboards, and commercials. When you are into this, you can be accepted whether you are thin or not. You can be a showroom model if you want to model designer clothing for the clients. Or you can try the other way through glamour or fetish modeling. This category requires you to have an open mind and courage.

If you are interested in the latter type of modeling, there are several websites where you can try your luck. However, you have to be 18 years or older for you to get the chance. One of the sites which concentrate on this type of aesthetic art is I Love French Girls, which is a fetish website run by jG, a french photographer from Paris. Fetish or glamour photography sometimes asks for partial nudity. There are times when your photographer may ask you to show certain parts of your body. If you are prude and is uncomfortable with this kind of job, then this type of modeling is not suitable for you. Female domination portray women in the finest latex clothes, leather garments, nylon stockings or fine lingerie including corsets or high heel shoes. On the other hand, there are some shoots wherein the model is bound or tied, exploring erotic and creative japanese bondage also known as shibari art.

You can check out glamour bondage pictures and female domination movies at I Love French Girls. This is the blog of Jerome Gouvrion, an expert photographer for bondage and fetish productions. I Love French Girls has been created to collect together the last news from jG websites who already published more than 50.000 pictures on the web. The quality is outstanding and his artworks dwell on the culture of fetish, latex, bondage, and female domination. He shoots videos or photos of a tied girl, acting as a slave to a mistress. His works also feature total restraint, rope bondage, erotic shibari, and bdsm role play. The audience of Jerome Gouvrion’s website comprises both the men and the women.

Jerome Gouvrion is used to shoot french women models that are not hesitant to act out erotic or sexy scenes. He specializes on images of females in restraint, through ropes or latex outfits. Because of his unique perception on fetish photography, he is considered as a top supplier of glamour bondage and femdom pictures in Europe. I Love French Girls is very much unlike other fetish sites. This is due to Jerome Gouvrion’s belief that women should not be merely considered as sexual objects. He does not believe that the females should be abused to bring out eroticism or fetishism, jG always keeps in mind the notion of respect and that makes a real difference.