one day, one day it will come true: the atmosphere will get lighter and the sun ready to shine just for you, for you

It is not an harness, but more like an apropos -- a sidekick obsession of mine, namely glitter on people's faces. Image found here.

Admit the effect I have on you (with pleasure, Zana Bayne leather harness photograph)

Found here.

This photograph. There is something about black and white photographs of naked skin -- its textures, the skeleton protruding slightly from underneath, it stretches over -- that is gorgeous, and I am not as strict with my criterions as long as you have a nude and a black and white camera. Quality? Pfft. This, however, is quality, and the skin stretching across the back in contrast and collection with the leather harness stretching across the back, both mimicking and opposing the natural structure of the body. Ahh, this is an incredible way to show an harness. It also makes me think of this:

From top: screenshot from The Dreamers, Edward Weston's Boulder Dam, Edward Weston's Shell, Edward Weston's Nude, and photograph by Tim Walker for W Magazine's editorial Dame of Thrones.  

The latter image makes me think of one of the aspects of harnesses that I am not so acquainted with, namely that of masculinity, warriors, war, defense, fighting, and protection. Would like to learn more about that. Great editorial, will post more photographs from it later on.

More Zana Bayne leather? Yes, please.

From her Fall/Winter 2012 Collection, featuring Sonoya. Images found here.

I especially like the second image. The hand coming out is very... Hmm, don't know how to describe it. In contrast with the fourth, and last image, it's interesting. Also, the way it makes me think about skeletal structures, of the spine (especially in the first image, except the spine is protruding in front of the chest, not supporting it from the back), is very new. I didn't even notice that the last image is that of a skull until I wrote this.

If the walls were too thin, you would break right in

Zana Bayne Leather, yet again. You can find her blog here. I don't know which collection this is, but I like the whole matador-vibe going on, the fact that there are only a few models and a few pieces, so I am able to savor it more than if it were crammed with impressions and pieces. 

Correction: It is from Spring/Summer 2011.

More harnesses (this was originally going to be long, but I thought, what the hell, I'll just take it one by one)

Images found here, here, and here.

Alas, the search continues. This was originally going to be a very long and extensive post about various harnesses and the different sources I am using to understand it. This includes Norse mythology (see: American Gods by Neil Gaiman), sexual fetishes and Japanese bondage, and armory. It is interesting, but I think it will be more interesting if I just continuously spew out smaller post, comprising of the images I have found so far, so that I can see how my thoughts change and develop, rather than work on one, huge post. I mean, it will come eventually, the more theoretical stuff, but I feel like I need to read and understand more about it. Otherwise I might as well just give you the Wikipedia article (this one is interesting, if you're looking to learn more about Japanese bondage, and also this one).

On another note, I find it exciting how the harnesses in high fashion, the ones that make it into the magazine, stems from a variety of sources, one of them being so-called "sexual deviance." Will return to this later.