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Designer, author, and sexual anthropologist, Betony Vernon bridges the worlds of art, design, and erotic well-being. Her work is a lifelong mission to redefine the boundaries of beauty and pleasure.

About

BIOGRAPHY

“Nothing reveals the functionality of the objects Betony Vernon designs. Yet, her works are at the service of the body, exacerbated, loved. Betony Vernon is invested in the field of erotic and sensual doing. The development of her work is multidisciplinary, spanning sessions of practical teaching and curative sharing, the writing of her books The Boudoir Bible, Paradise Found and Pleasure as well as the design of sublime objects – jewels, sculpture, furniture, objets d’art and happenings. The most recent public happening was in Paris in at the Museum of Modern Art. Through this wide fan of mediums, non of which abstract the human body, Betony Vernon signs an aesthetic of wellness, a sophisticated interaction to the other and above all, to oneself.”

Michele Heuze.

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PUBLIC SPEAKING

Betony is available for public speaking engagements on the themes of design, erotica, sensual empowerment and sexual well-being for related conferences, organizations, television, podcasts and radio programming internationally. She has conducted work-shops and seminars for cultural institutions such as the European Institute of Design, Domus Academy, Les Beaux Arts Lyon, the Museum of Modern Art (Paris), IED Instituto Europeo di Design and Polimoda under the auspices of futurist Lidewij Edelkoort.

SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES

2024

Betony Vernon on Spirituality, Sex, Sensuality and the Erotic Body Realm
Mangu TV (Podcast)

2021

Women in Tech (Podcast with Bishi)

2019

I Am Heretic – “Dismantling the Pleasure Taboo” (Podcast with Douglas Little)

2018

Luxury Sex (Episode with Karly Slutever)
Viceland

2017

Interview with Vix Foster
Fashion TV

2016

Interview
Ovation TV

2016

Talk on sex, love, cinema & La Bible du Boudoir (augmented edition)
Europe 1, Radio France, Social Club

France

2015

Strange Forms of Pleasure (carte blanche)
Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur

Switzerland

2015

Interview with Antoine de Caunes
Canal+ France

France

2015

Sado-Chic Jewelry on Cara Delevigne Wax Sculpture
Grévin Musée, Paris

France

2014

Nirvana, Strange Forms of Pleasure
MUDAC Museum of Design and Contemporary Art, Lausanne

Switzerland

2013

Interview on Le Grand Journal
Canal+ France

France

2013

Interview on Salut les Terriens (Thierry Ardisson)
Canal+ France

France

2013

Interview with Rankin
Hunger TV

UK

2013

Interview with Nick Knight
SHOWstudio.com

UK

2013

Soul-less Shoes
GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig

Germany

2013

KAMA Sex and Design (carte blanche)
Triennale Design Museum, Milan

Italy

2012

Selling Sex
SHOWstudio, London

UK

2012

Polaroid Papillon (Short film by Olivier Zahm for Gucci-Fiat 500)

2011

Pirelli Calendar 2011
Karl Lagerfeld

Italy

2011

Interview – Sex Wiz Antoine
Canal+ France

France

2011

Le Paris du Boudoir (Art Critic Valérie Duponchelle)
Le Figaro

France

2011

Documentary on Female Pleasure (Frédérique Barraja)
Canal+ France

France

2011

Amor e Sexo (Interview)
TV Globo

Brazil

2011

Limited/Unlimited
Casanatense Library, Rome

Italy

2010

Mutantes (Pro-sex feminist documentary by Virginie Despentes)

France

2010

Focus on Betony Vernon (Interview)
Vogue.it

Italy

2009

En Attendant Minuit (Interview by 909 TV Productions)

France

2009

The Fashion Body (Curated by Nick Knight)
Somerset House, London

UK

2009

Red Light Design
Salone del Mobile, Milan

Italy

2008

Sex in Design, Design in Sex
Museum of Sex, New York

USA

2008

Interview for Contemporary Sex Workers (Documentary Film Series)
El País

Spain

2008

Le Boudoir (Didactic Programming, Writer & Host)
MTV Italy

Italy

2008

Interview for Sex TV
Canadian Public Broadcasting

Canada

2006

Interview with Mathieu Lecerf
Pink TV

France

2005

Interview with Frédéric Taddeï
Paris Dernier (Television)

France

2005

Touch Me
Victoria and Albert Museum, Contemporary Gallery, London

UK

2004

The Banquet (Online Event with Nick Knight)
SHOWstudio, London

UK

2003

Body Craze (Curated by Rankin)
Selfridges, London

UK

2002

Science of Love (Permanent Collection)
Fukui Prefecture Museum of Design

Japan

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PODCASTS

Betony Vernon
The Sex Ed with Liz Goldwyn
Rediscovering Your Sex Drive with Betony Vernon
Not Perfect Podcast by Poppy Jamie
Sexuality & Timing, Art & Business with Betony Vernon
Beyond Fashion Business Podcast
Betony Vernon
Creative Women in Tech
Betony Vernon on Spirituality,Sex, Sensuality and the Erotic Body Realm
Mangu.TV Podcast
Les Inrocks Sexe x Betony Vernon
Les Inrocks Talks
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