10-year career – Latex Sue Storm cosplay at NYCC 2010

Celebrating my 10-year career! Souvenir from 2010: attending NYCC with my friend Riddle! There’s a long story behind this Sue Storm costume.

Through my work as a glamour model, I was introduced to the owner of Polymorphe, a Montreal based latex clothing company offering various products mainly to the fetish community all around the world. Polymorphe lent me many latex outfits for glamour photoshoots. They also taught me the basic techniques to work with latex. I spent many hours working and learning in Polymorphe’s workshop.

Releasing glamour pics of me wearing latex outfits made that people associated me to the fetish community. At some point, even my Wikipedia page was saying that I was a fetish model. I have many fetishist friends and I’ve learned a lot about all the different fetishes in the past years, but I’m not a fetishist myself. As a designer and costumer, I love how latex looks, but I don’t wear it in my bedroom. I did’t want to be called a fetish model since I wasn’t even a fetishist.

So I talked to Polymorphe’s owner. I told him how I appreciated everything he had done for me and how I thought that latex was an interesting material. But from now on, I’d use this material only in non fetishist contexts. What if I’d use this material for cosplay costumes? And Polymorphe’s owner accepted to help me.

Following reference sheets and instructions I had provided, the people of Polymorphe made the Sue Storm costume 1 week before NYCC 2010. It was a huge hit. It was all over the Internet. Official pics were on Marvel Comics’ website. It put me on the map as a cosplayer. Very little people had used latex for a cosplay costume before 2010. Today, many companies are specialized in making latex cosplay costumes. Fetish models have custom cosplay costumes made for their photoshoots. Non fetish cosplayers are wearing latex cosplay costumes. This Sue Storm costume introduced latex to the world of American pop culture and created a cross-over between the glamour, fetish and cosplay industries. On October 2010, a little French Canadian girl attending NYCC changed the face of cosplay in North America. ;)