Zentai originated in the 1980s in Japan, land of synthetic fibers and off-the-wall trends, and has recently begun migrating west. Google Street View captured three metallic-gold Zentai pedestrians ...

There is also something liberating about transforming oneself in fantasy into a non-human - some zentai suits are zebra striped or checkered or have a metallic, robot-like sheen. Zentai fetishism ...

Halloween is coming, and that must mean, surely as pumpkins and sexy cops, zentai! Well, this is a new association – a new trend in costumes – but it is coming on so strong it might soon be ...

It’s called “zentai.” And in Japan, it can mean a lot of things. To 20-year-old Hokkyoku Nigo, it means liberation from the judgment and opinions of others. To a 22-year-old named Hanaka, it ...

Japanese professionals, office workers and pensioners are dressing in full-body lycra suits to escape the pressures of modern day life, in a craze called Zentai.