Crowd Control: 13 Spiked Purses to Preserve Your Personal Space
Sharp accessories for anyone who prefers admiration from a distance
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
If you don’t like being herded like cattle in big crowds, we sure have the bag for you.
The subway doors slide open and everyone presses in at once. A stranger’s breath warms the side of your face. Someone’s shoulder drives into your back as the car lurches forward. By the time you reach your stop, your shoes are scuffed and every nerve in your body is begging for six unoccupied inches. The elevator is no better. It is a cramped little nightmare with fluorescent lighting and no socially acceptable escape route.
What if you could carry your own personal bubble? Imagine a portable perimeter that buys you enough literal breathing room to arrive with your patience intact. Enter: the Personal Space Bag.
When Mars (@yung.planet), one of our favourite alternative creators, shared her New York Fashion Week story, we were furious on her behalf. We also recognized the feeling immediately. So, we assembled the accessories equivalent of a wrought-iron fence: 13 spiked bags designed to look beautiful from a respectful distance.
19 Female-Led Gothic Brands We Love
An International Women’s Day edit of dark feminine brands defining modern gothic fashion and beauty
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
These are the baddies that get us. The women building the pieces we actually want to wear because they exist inside the same subculture. They understand our references, our humour, our obsessions and our challenges.
They make cool shit that lands because it’s ours—designed by women who understand the pure joy of putting on an outfit that makes you feel totally yourself.
For International Women’s Day, and long after the hashtag fades, we love backing the women-led brands that create exceptional work inside our community, shaping the aesthetic we inhabit.
The Discipline of Dress: Tracing Fetish Fashion Through Couture Collections
Designer inspo, market shopping guide and functional (but discreet) fetish adornments
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
Fetish fashion did not begin on the runway, but it has also never stayed confined to the bedroom.
Long before latex and harnesses became street-style shorthand, designers were borrowing the visual language of kink to challenge how clothing relates to power.
What began as taboo iconography evolved into a design vocabulary that speaks fluently in silhouette, material and intention.
Today, fetish fashion moves easily between couture ateliers, city sidewalks, quiet luxury wardrobes and mass-produced fast-fashion brands, no longer requiring shock value to feel transgressive.