Cocktail cherry butch by chiara FEHLING and Fine Elina Schmitz

Fine Elina Schmitz (She/Her) and Chiara Fehling (They/Them) met in their first year studying visual communication at Kunsthochschule Kassel and bonded over creating sensual scenes.

The lack of fashion options for fat people to feel sexy in inspired them to create a vest made entirely of fluid latex, which accentuates a real body’s figure. With fluid latex, you don’t have to fit the garment, the garment itself fits your unique form.

It took ten hours to apply the layers and perfect its glamour so that it could also be part of a drag “quing” performance.

“COCKTAIL CHERRY BUTCH” creates an idealistic world where size, gender, and conformity don’t matter. One where you could have a smoky picnic in a sunny park as a cocktail cherry butch, and the only thing annoying you are the mosquitos! “Butch” derives from a camp, femme, domme, and multi-diverse perspective.

In this case, the term “Femme” reflects not a cis identity but the opportunity to experiment with genderqueerness in a way where you are sexy only for your own gaze.

In a heteronormative and ableist world, a photoshoot like this is not only an act of empowerment but a form of protest.

Chiara Fehling | IG @chiarakunst

Chiara Fehling (They/Them) is a genderqueer visual artist based in Kassel, Germany. Their work is focusing on photography, shortfilm and Performance. Fehling uses upfront honesty for stigmatized topics like kink and trauma through a queer and political lense. The art itself is a sensual experience that tries to speak to diverse audiences.

Fine Elina Schmitz | IG @jofine.e

Fine Elina Schmitz (she/her) is an artist from Berlin who expresses herself through film, photography and more recently collages and latex. She creates scenes inspired by nature through a combination of different fabrics, lights and objects. With different materials, she dives deeper into fantasy and creates moments to let our minds wander free.