Last weekend, at an industrial estate in Tottenham, people stuck gaffer tape on their nipples and arched their backs. There, a disused automotive garage-turned-warehouse played host to the ascendant club night 2CPerrea, where people wear shirred playsuits and leopard-print belt skirts and skank vests with the word “maricon” (meaning faggot in Spanish) embroidered across their fronts. Staged in collaboration with Popola UK, partygoers whined to the seductive electronica and jacked-up dembow of Latin America’s perreo subculture. “Perreo is about dancing along with your friends and smiling at them. It’s about being free and moving your body,” the night’s organisers explain. “Especially your ass.”“At 2CPerrea, fashion and freedom go together. The main target is on creating the best atmosphere for everybody...
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