Entrepreneur and fashion icon Kylie Jenner is the face of Vogue Hong Kong’s August 2020 installment. Jenner is seen dressed to the nines by Jill Jacobs in YSL’s luxurious latex collection from Fall 2020.
With a pristine white manicure, Jenner emits an image from the future, complemented by her latex ensemble.
YSL’s designer Anthony Vaccarello highlighted his fascination for latex, musing, “I treated latex as the new denim”. Vaccarello went onto add saying, “It’s a material that I found interesting as it could be effortless to use. It was treated as a fabric, and I reproduced some of the iconic pieces from the Saint Laurent lineage. Typically, [latex] looks cheap with a plastic look, so I was adamant to give it a new luxury life. The collection was Sัxy because Yves Saint Laurent was making women Sัxy, I merely kept this concept and brought it up to today.”
The fashion world has seen the rise of natural rubber latex, moving out of the shadows and into luxury fashionโs glaring spotlight. Kylie’s sister, Kim Kardashian, is notably a passionate connoisseur of Balmain’s latex offerings.
Notwithstanding its present association with futurism and technology, the origin of natural rubber latex is ancient and organic. Latex is a milky fluid that leaks from over 20,000 plant species when they are injured. This sap-like substance coagulates and hardens to form a waterproof and elastic mass, which is collected by making precise incisions with small blades. The New York-based latex designer known as The Baroness tells: “People often mistake latex for PVC, envisaging it as shiny, taut, Sัxy and affordable. But natural rubber latex is completely vegan, sustainable, delicate, and challenging to manipulate”.
