Our History

CONSTANTINOS KYRIACOU

CONSTANTINOS KYRIACOU, also known as Cos K, was one of the original pioneers of the 6" stiletto heel, and after over 40 years of mastering the most detailed intricacies of its construction, curvature, and shape, has gained more knowledge and understanding of fetish shoes than anybody else in the industry today.

Having grown up in a shoemaking family, Cos K learnt his trade working in his father’s business, The City Cobbler in the heart of London, where he first developed his skills making bespoke men's & ladies' footwear in the early 1980's.

He later relocated to Shepherds Bush in West London, where he cultivated a successful relationship with the wardrobe department at the BBC and The Royal Shakespeare Company and other theatrical film and television production companies, making shoes for many well-known celebrities, actors and musicians, including his decade long relationship with Paisley Park as the shoemaker for Prince, the artist. He then entered the world of couture fashion when he was asked to collaborate with many of the leading fashion houses to create footwear to complement their latest collections. His shoes were a regular feature at the catwalk shows of fashion royalty, including Vivienne Westwood, Bettie Jackson, Alexander McQueen and many more, at London fashion week throughout the nineties.

His relationship with the fetish community began when a young couple, Roger and Sarah Adams, entered the City Road shop one day with an idea for a new kind of high heel shoe. Super slim, super high heels on extreme point shoes. This was his introduction into the world of fetish fashion. Fascinated and intrigued by the idea, Cos Kyriacou embarked on a journey that would last to this present day, overcoming many challenges along the way, to create the perfect fetish footwear.

With over 40 years experience of working on challenging projects for the film, TV, theatre, high end fashion and fetish companies, Cos is without comparison in his ability to create your perfectly fitting fetish footwear fantasy.

DOREEN KOLETSCHKA

DOREEN KOLETSCHKA was the driving force and inspiration behind Marquis Latex Fashion achieving international acclaim and recognition throughout the fetish industry for her intelligently elegant and functional creations.

Growing up in Eastern Germany behind the iron curtain her creativity starts very early, to show and to satisfy a little girls thirst for knowledge and expanding her creativity she dives deep into the universe of the movies from the 30s 40s and 50s and experiences besides that a whole new world of art and design, literature and science. Along the way Doreen discovered Bettie Page, John Willie, Eric Stanton etc and the fascination for fetish aesthetics has never been far from her life ever since.

Filled with all these influences her journey led to an architectural study at the famous Bauhaus University in Weimar where she graduated in 2000 successfully.

After which she began working for different architecture offices in Weimar and Berlin. Doreen however, dissatisfied with the world of architecture, started looking for new challenges and decided, after a short trial period, to step out of her qualified profession and began working with Peter W Czernich, founder of the world renowned Marquis magazine. Under Peters guidance Doreen developed an understanding and proficiency for working with latex, transfering her architectural knowledge to design and construct items for the Marquis clothing brand. During this time Doreen created outfits for Dita Von Teese, Wunderkind, Escada and most of the models from the fetish scene such as Sister Sinister, Lara Aimee, Psylocke, Starfucked etc.

After Peter sold the Marquis Latex company Doreen remained with the new owner taking on the responsibility of head designer and shop manager for over 7 years. A prolific and very creative period for Doreen, really enjoying working continuously on new tasks and putting her own character into the brand.

In 2018 Cos and Doreen met for the first time at a planned photo shoot, at the hallowed grounds of Peter W Czernichs' Marquis universe in Solingen. Since then more collaborations followed and led, after some years, to the decision to work together permanently.

The combined talents of these two outstanding artists offers you the incomparable capability to create your complete fetish outfits for any occasion and event. The more outlandish and challenging your requirements are the more they will enjoy creating them for you. Both Cos and Doreen are waiting to hear from you, get in touch now.

THE CITY COBBLER
LEATHER WORKS IMAGINE
COSMIC
FABULOUSLY FETISH

All the above were brands which Cos K was involved in, either as founder or collaborator but in any case the main designer of all their products. Leatherworks Imagine is probably the most familiar of these brands for most of you and it's time to put the record straight regarding the history of this brand.

Leatherworks was founded in the late eighties by Constantinos Kyriacou (Cos K) and Andrew Joakim, who offered to invest in the work already being done by Cos K as the City Cobbler focusing on production and marketing of purely fetish and kinky footwear. Imagine became the brand name of these products and Cos K was the sole designer and main shoemaker of all the products during his time there. This relationship continued successfully for several years until professional differences between Andrew and Cos resulted in a mutual separation. Cos K then went on to create Cosmic and eventually Fabulously Fetish. Leatherworks Imagine continued under the proprietorship of Andrew Joakim, continuing to produce designs by Cos K and enhancing the collection with designs by many other freelance designers. During his time with Leatherworks Imagine, Cos K developed many firsts for the fetish footwear market, most notably the very first Latex thigh boots in association with David and Carla of Ritual Fashions. Since then many have replicated these but Cos K has perfected a version of the Latex boots, with many alternative design variations available only on our website.

By popular demand Cos K has now revisited the designs and products he created for Leatherworks Imagine here on The Custom Boot and Shoe Website. Please take a look at these historic items in our Leatherworks Imagine Collection.

We hope you enjoy using this website. Your feedback would be most welcome and will help us continue improving our products for you.