Fashionable sex toys
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Dorothy Woodend in the Vancouver Sun writes of the latest fashion trend: upscale, high-priced sex toys.
Ever since a picture of the spanker appeared in Esquire, Gucci has been inundated with calls seeking information on the not-yet-available leather strap (it's due to arrive in all major Gucci stores in early September but may sell out before it even hits shop floors.) The spanker retails for about $195 in calfskin, but for the more decadent it also comes in crocodile. Ford, who uses porn like the rest of us use warm milk, is usually at the cutting edge of fashion, but this time he is simply at the tip of one big kinky iceberg.
The Gucci Spanker is only the latest in a flood of designer sex toys taking upmarket stores by storm. Liberty, a traditional British department store, recently raised eyebrows by launching a designer vibrator called "The Bone" created by OBE recipient Tom Dixon (there's currently a six month wait list to buy one). In Paris, Sonia Rykiel Woman features a line of erotic goodies for those who want to be bad, as does London's Coco de Mer, a very upscale sex store, launched by Sam Roddick (daughter of the Body Shop's Anita). Even Victoria's Secret is flogging leather and chains, with a tough new collection called Rock Angel that features zippered leather thongs, chain-mail minis and studded bras and tank tops, ranging in price from $50 to $1,200. Paging Betty Page.
Designer Tom Ford heads down a slippery fahion slope with the Gucci Spanker
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