Editing AtomAge

{{Short description|British fetish magazine}}
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'''''AtomAge''''' magazine was a [[fetish magazine]] published in Britain by the clothes designer [[John Sutcliffe (designer)|John Sutcliffe]] in the 1970s as an offshoot of his AtomAge fetish clothing business. The magazine has been called the "underground bible of leather, rubber and vinyl fetish wear throughout the 1970s"<ref name="trunk">{{Cite book |last=Trunk |first=Jonny|author-link=Jonny Trunk|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7AjtRQAACAAJ |title=Dressing for Pleasure in Rubber, Vinyl & Leather: The Best of AtomAge, 1972-1980 |date=2010 |publisher=FUEL |isbn=978-0-9563562-3-9 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="kwaidan">{{Cite magazine |last=Phelps |first=Nicole |date=2021-03-03 |title=Kwaidan Editions Fall 2021 Ready-to-Wear Collection |url=https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2021-ready-to-wear/kwaidan-editions |magazine=Vogue |language=en-US |access-date=2021-12-07}}</ref> and documented Britain's [[sadomasochism|S/M]] scene.<ref name="quinn">{{Cite news |last=Moreland |first=Quinn |date=2017-12-15 |title=Fever Ray Explains How Ball Gags, Leather Fetishes, and Weird Memes Inspired Her New Album |language=en |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/fever-ray-explains-how-ball-gags-leather-fetishes-and-weird-memes-inspired-her-new-album/ |access-date=2021-12-07}}</ref><ref name="woo"/> The first AtomAge clothing catalogue was published in 1965 and it expanded into a magazine in 1972.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news |last=George |first=Cassidy |date=2020-01-08 |title=From fetish to fashion: The rise of latex |language=en |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200108-from-fetish-to-fashion-the-rise-of-latex |access-date=2021-12-07}}</ref> The magazine ended in 1980.<ref name=Hodgkinson>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/sep/11/john-sutcliffe-fetish-wear|title=King of kinky|first=Will|last=Hodgkinson|date=11 September 2010|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>

2010 saw the publication of ''Dressing For Pleasure, The Best Of AtomAge 1972-1980'', a comprehensive hardback book celebrating both the magazine and company.<ref name=Hodgkinson/><ref name="woo">{{Cite news |last=Woo |first=Kin |date=2018-04-04 |title=The Husband-Wife Team Designing Clothes Inspired by David Lynch |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/t-magazine/fashion/kwaidan-editions-clothing.html |access-date=2021-12-07 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
''Dressing for Pleasure in Rubber, Vinyl and Leather: The Best of Atomage 1972-1980''. [[Jonny Trunk]] (author). Damon Murray, [[Jonny Trunk]], and Stephen Sorrell (editors).  United Kingdom: FUEL, 2010.

[[Category:Pornographic magazines published in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Fetish magazines]]
[[Category:Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Magazines established in 1972]]
[[Category:Magazines disestablished in 1980]]


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