Fashion designer hypes rubber fetish looks — for the office

Who says latex is NSFW?

A Dutch fashion designer is stretching the definition of appropriate office attire by debuting skin-tight rubber outfits for professionals.

“My line is for women, crossdressers and anyone in between who likes to look proper and elegant,” designer Sebastian Cauchos told Jam Press.

The Amsterdam fashionista offers a chic collection of latex cardigans, blouses, turtlenecks and other bendy, form-fitting attire befitting a sexy vampire hunter.

While latex is oft-associated with dominatrixes and various sex kinks, Cauchos hopes to bring the heavily stigmatized material into the mainstream.

“I always wondered why latex had to be such a taboo material while you can make very elegant outfits with it,” declared the sartorial trailblazer, who’s been working with the stretchy substance since he was a student.

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As such, his fashion-redefining items include a rubber blouse with puffed sleeves, rubber headscarves and an all-black latex turtleneck seemingly peeled off Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman in “Batman Returns.” Cauchos even sells latex ties and blazers like something worn by a dom in an office porn scenario.

In need of something for a casual Friday? Not to fear, also on offer are pencil skirts and made-to-measure polos and T-shirts. However, these so-called inconspicuous getups are perhaps somewhat undermined by their material, which makes them stick out like a freshly waxed Honda.

“I appreciate it when women look prudish and conservative, with or without latex,” fawns the Dutch pioneer of his Matrix-esque creations.

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Nonetheless, these outfits are still a far cry from the outlandish latex getups of the S&M scene and other rubber-loving circles.

“There are numerous latex designers nowadays, but the one thing that distinguishes my work from all the others is that I make modest and conservative fashion of latex,” Cauchos insists.

He even warns prospective office workers to avoid the “cliche that latex has to be sexy, kinky, body shape revealing” because “this what everybody else already does.”

“These days it almost becomes controversial what I’m saying now,” the latex-pert added. “But let it be, I don’t care.”

Despite his love of latex, Cauchos admits that the material can be challenging for both the wearer and the maker. “I’m fond of latex because it sucks [to work with as a material but I like a challenge],” he said. “[…] but it’s hard to maintain and get dressed [in it].”

He added, “But that’s one of the reasons why I’m in love with it.”

Here’s hoping these outfits don’t fall apart when the rubber meets the road.

Thought latex office attire was risqué? In September, models redefined “sex tape” after strutting the New York Fashion Week Sunday catwalk in nothing but skimpy swimsuits composed entirely of different kinds of adhesive duct tape.