Darklands Glows 2025 - The Highlights Reel 🙌

Darklands Glows 2025 - The Highlights Reel 🙌

Huge shout out and THANK YOU (!!!) to all of the friends who came to visit us at Darklands 2025, both New and Old. As returning platinum sponsors for this festival, we are excited to announce and highlight some of our absolute favorite parts of the 15th Darklands edition, as this festival continues to grow internationally and our brand grows with it. Looking ahead, the future of Darklands and MR. Riegillio is looking brighter than ever… looking forward to a knockout 2026!

 Bringing back a festival favorite from previous years, the House of Riegillio stage, was the center of the party and energizing social interaction throughout the festival. Our 🕹️Pac-Man theme was evident throughout our store and the stage. A four-day long full house with an iconic drag program was definitely something to remember! We played the best music that turned the crowd into a big ole hip-shaker… can you can relive it once again, take a listen to our Spotify Playlist 🎵 to feel the vibes that had the crowd rockin’ the whole time.

We brought our absolute hottest selection of our newest designs to the market and got to outfit so many hot and friendly kinksters in our latest gear. Surely we made some dreams come true in more ways than one! 💦 We co-sponsored a sports gear-themed play area with SNKRFTSH (powered by MR. Riegillio)… and it was an absolute hit! 👟 A wonderful place for sneaker freaks, sportswear fans, gearheads and everything in between to share space and have a little fun. Sniffy, sweaty, shiny, stretchy and sexy for the WIN! 😈💪

Throughout the course of the festival, there were several groups and socials in different parts of the festival grounds. Our very own David had the honor of hosting this year’s youngsters’ social again. The youngsters’ social has grown over the past couple of years and we are extremely proud of everyone who attended the social to represent their age group while showing their openness and their acceptance of everyone while keeping KINK as a focus. 70+ young kinksters got together and made this a time to remember! 🍺

The theme of the festival Darklands Glows focused on the beautiful dichotomy between light and dark. The way these elements dance with each other - both internally and externally. The more we bring our shadows into the light, the more we can be seen in our wholeness. It was an electric festival week that brought everyone together and we can’t wait and look forward to the best and the rest for the following year!

Get our last Darklands gear before it sells out (available for a limited time!). Find your gear at MR. Riegillio for the next festival on your calendar. Festival season 2025 has just begun!

Darklands Glows celebrating a 15-year run took place February 25th - March 2nd, 2025 at Waagnatie, Rijnkaai 150, Antwerpen, Belgium. 

 Check out the Darklands Page for more hightlights.