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 ...

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.

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 ...

Mr Zentai said he was not in Budapest at that time. Hungarian authorities requested to question Mr Zentai in 2005. He moved to Australia after World War II and was living in the western city of Perth.