about

The Sensual World is a retail-culture platform exploring desire and sensory pleasure through products, experiences and cultural material.

Named after the eponymous song by Kate Bush, it was founded in 2024 by Lucy Kumara Moore, who says:

'I want to inspire people to enjoy themselves, to pay attention to their desires and to offer their bodies as much pleasure as possible.

For me, there’s a very strong connection between the sensual pleasures of scent, touch, taste, sound and sight - and sex. Sex is erotic but so is putting ice cream in your mouth. So is feeling sound move physically through your body when you’re at a concert, or noticing how beautiful an object on your bedside table is every time you wake up. I want The Sensual World to explore this expanded idea of eroticism. The forces of mainstream culture are very disembodying - we’re always being asked to give our attention to digital space - which is ephemeral and elsewhere. I want to place more emphasis on being in a body, in space.'