PAUL SEVILLE - HISTORY OF LINGERIE - DESIGNER FASHION GUIDES

Fashion Industry Broadcast and Style Planet TV are proud to bring you their new Original series ‘The Girl’s Guides to the World of Designer Fashion’. This new 6 part series explores the seductive world of designer fashion. Here we spotlight Fetish leather craftsman, legend Paul Seville, who mastered the art of bringing intricate leather accessories to the forefront of eccentric boudoir culture. His natural, self-taught skills for hand carving have resulted in an unmistakable line of wearable art. Paul’s distinctive point of view blends old- school leather work and couture through “a delicious mix of exotic skins, including snakeskin and stingray, sterling silver and Swarovski crystals”. Hailing from the Emerald Isles in Ireland, Paul trained as a fashion designer and tailor at London college of Fashion, where he stood out for his unusual creations. Paul designed and hand carved moulded Bespoke corsets and bustiers, before moving on to design and create leather furniture for shop interiors. He meticulously studied traditional artisan techniques using rare and vintage books, and experimented with leather-craft, working out new textures, techniques for dyeing, moulding, etching and carving, to innovate and develop his own distinct style. The results gained him notoriety, and he was awarded sponsorship by New Generation to showcase his collections during London Fashion Week. In the days when accessories for erotica were very much underground, Seville was lucky to score an exc