Our friends at Hopeless Lingerie, a Melbourne-based turned internationally-recognised lingerie label, have released a new editorial to accompany their ‘Crucial Taunt’ collection. And it’s steamy.

The collection coincides with Hopeless Lingerie’s dark, romantic form of lingerie. Yet, for owner and designer Gabrielle Adamidis, Crucial Taunt specifically explores the use of aesthetic dichotomy.

“Dedicated to Cassandra from Wayne’s World,” Adamidis says, “Crucial Taunt is about dichotomies and the balance of seeming contradictions. Softness and strength are represented through Hopeless Lingerie’s signature use of negative space, strap detail, and circular cutouts. For women that love heavy metal, lingerie, and reptiles. For dream-women everywhere, you are worthy.”

Check out the online collection here.

• Words: Louis Hanson