Miss Crash is the stage name of a fetish model

Fetish model

A fetish model is a model who models fetish clothing or devices that augment his or her body in a fetish manner or in fetishistic situations, though he or she may not work exclusively in that form of modeling....

 and prominent extreme performance art

Extreme performance art

Since the beginning of the Dadaism in the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich in 1916, many artists have experimented with extreme performance art as a critique of contemporary consumer culture. Some have used bodily fluids such as blood, faeces and urine. Other times they perform self mutilation. In the...

ist known for her extensive body suspension work. Named The Queen of Suspension at the Chicago Tattoo Convention in 2008 after completing a 27 hook, 18 transition suspension (a possible world record

World record

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), Miss Crash has also been pierced with 96 needles and been hung bloodily by the knees. She frequently tours with the alt-rock band Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band's original line-up featured Perry Farrell , Dave Navarro , Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins . After breaking up in 1991, Jane's Addiction briefly reunited in 1997 and again in 2001, both times...

 on their Lollapaloza tours, (providing their immediate opening act along with her cohort Samar), and has performed at the fetish club Torture Garden

Torture Garden (fetish club)

Torture Garden is a fetish club in London, UK. The club started in 1990 and is now Europe's largest fetish club, featuring monthly at the Mass Club in the converted St. Matthews Church, Brixton...

 in London on Halloween

Halloween

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; she has variously performed in Chile, Italy, France, Norway and Australia.

A prominent figure in the fetish

Fetish

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 world and the BDSM

BDSM

BDSM is an erotic preference and a form of sexual expression involving the consensual use of restraint, intense sensory stimulation, and fantasy power role-play. The compound acronym BDSM is derived from the terms bondage and discipline , dominance and submission , and sadism and masochism...

 community (Hustler

Hustler

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 TABOO called her "An evil cunt

Cunt

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," referring to the tattoos on her thighs referring to herself as such, "but none the less a talented one..."), she has been featured in Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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, Spin Magazine, LA Weekly

LA Weekly

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 and Marquis

Marquis (magazine)

Marquis is a fetish magazine owned, operated, published and primarily photographed by Peter W. Czernich and Sandra Würdig. Based in Germany, Marquis covers a wide array of topics related to the worldwide fetish subculture...

. In August 2011, she starred in a Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson

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 and Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf

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collaboration, a short film titled Born Villain.

Miss Crash is a co-owner with Jane Jett of Studio Servitù, a high-end boutique gallery and studio in Los Angeles, California.

External links

• http://misscrash.com/ Professional homepage
• http://studioservitu.com/ Studio Servitù
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5pytL-vDoY Burlesque, piercing, and suspension
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To5dz1C4Om4 Hanging at Lollapalooza (at 1:24), Chile 2011