He was nominated for a César Award for Best Costume Design for The City of Lost Children (1995) and then a second for Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element (1997). All three of the belts are fully adjustable and removable so it would be easy to get creative with the way you wear this.

This alluring pair of trousers features am abundance of clasping bondage straps throughout and a soft pink base.Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy. The belts can be used as medical restraints in institutions for bed and wheelchair restraints, and for safety in activities such as abseiling or construction work. Lengths of simple leather strapping with buckles are sometimes also referred to as bondage belts, because they can be used quickly to bind limbs. We take intellectual property concerns very seriously, but many of these problems can be resolved directly by the parties involved.

com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US.While wearing a bondage belt, a submissive partner can be restrained by using rope or handcuffs to attach their hands to the anchor points. A bondage belt is a belt worn as a bondage aide during BDSM or bondage play or as a fetish wear accessory. Though it is not a physical restraint by itself, it can be used to provide an anchoring point for other restraints, such as bondage cuffs, rope, etc.

In 1984, Gaultier’s “Boy Toy” collection challenged men’s fashion with striped shirts and skirts — and sold around 3,000 of them. When they are used in sexual bondage plays they are commonly referred to as bondage belts, and also worn in fetish clothing.Jean Paul Gaultier—the French designer who has truly mastered the art of bold, abstract and stunning full print garments. With help from the Sex Pistols and a burning strive for liberty, those who identified as punk altered the course of art through caustic thinking.

The belt is then placed around the detainee's waist and secured with a buckle; some models can also be locked with a padlock. He presented his last ready-to-wear collection in 2014 and in 2020 stepped down from his couture line, ending his boundary-pushing, industry-shaping reign with a raucous show of more than 230 outfits formed from fragments of collections from across his 50-year career. He’s said that some of his earliest fashion work was for his teddy bear, and later he would send his sketches to designers he revered, including Pierre Cardin. If you’d like to file an allegation of infringement, you’ll need to follow the process described in our Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy. If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case.

Gaultier began to work with Madonna during the late 1980s, and, at the pop star’s request, he designed the costumes for her 1990 “Blond Ambition” tour. But he loved to sketch and was drawn to clothing, citing the corsets in his maternal grandmother’s closet as having a formative impact on his creative direction. Gaultier began his career in 1970 as an assistant to Cardin, who admired the sketches the 18-year-old had sent for his appraisal. These belts are usually made from sturdy leather, and many have metal rings and spring-loaded hooks that act as anchor points for restraints.