Inspired by London's 18th Century Pleasure Gardens, specifically that of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, merged with contemporary references from bondage and lingerie to men's leather chaps and horse saddles, and photographers like that of Robert Mapplethorpe and Ellen Von Unwerth. The Pleasure Gardens, were known for being part art gallery, part fashion show and part brothel, it was known for being the place where the 'glittering world of wealth, fashion and high culture' showed off its seedy underside.