I'd been a fan of the first "Fashionistas" movie, which came out in 2002 to rave reviews and cleaned up at that year's AVN awards. It featured lots of extreme fetish play, hardcore anal sex, and an actual plot line that had some thought put into it.

"Fasionistas Safado: The Challenge" is the first sequel to that film (there has since been one more sequel, "Fashionistas Berlin") and features uber porn stars Rocco Siffredi and Belladonna reprising their roles as fashion designer Antonio and the submissive who teases him Jesse. Antonio and Jesse are now partners in fashion design and full-time boyfriend and girlfriend, but issues still arise. The film starts out with live action from The Fashionistas stage show, which was an actual live stage show in Las Vegas based on the porn film that ran for fours years before closing in February 2008. Here the stage show is substituted as Jesse and Antonio's fashion show for their new line of latex fetish clothing. Antonio is up to his old ways once again, though, and as he stands in the back row watching, he gets services by the likes of Jenna Haze. The dramatic lighting adds a cool effect here, and the scene gradually turns into a three-way, all in a public setting in full view of a packed audience. Fans of public sex scenes will be turned on here.

Post fashion show, Antonio and Jesse hold a press conference to talk about their new line of clothing, but are interrupted by a video that pops up onto the screen showing extreme fetish images, much like Jesse's "easter egg" video in the first "Fasionistas". The message "SAFADO!" flashes onscreen, mysteriously, but we later learn that this is a competing fashion line that is vying for Antonio's attention, much like the Fashionistas were, yes, in the first film.

At fashion show after party, Antonio arrives in style and begins groping the models in his aggressive manner. it is here we are introduced to the real reason for watching this film- the porn debut of Sasha Grey. Sasha gets her ass spanked and sucks Antonio's cock really good, while an all-out orgy breaks out in the room with all the fetish models. Cock gagging, face slapping, and lot and lot 'o ass slapping are seen and heard. Meanwhile, Jesse oversees Antonio having his way with all the other women and gets jealous, upset the attention isn't being focused on her.

Rocco takes Jenna Haze and Gianna into a back bedroom where the three engage in another 3-way that seems to last an eternity. More cock gagging and ass slapping, anal, ATM, spitting, cum swallowing, you name it. It's hard, hardcore sex here and plenty of it. Not for the fainthearted.

The SAFADO! DVD is uncovered and each scene on it corresponds with a different location, such as "boiler room" (filmed in an actual boiler room) or "tit towers", featuring one of the most extreme nipple torture scenes I've ever seen. if you're into extreme BDSM play, this might be your thing, but others might not be able to sit through some of these. Antonio becomes fascinated by the SAFADO! video and decides he must go to Berlin, where the video originated from, and find out who these people are.

The film then cuts back to the orgy scene, still happening in the living room, which goes on for what seems like an hour. It's too much and would be best off being cut shorter, but it's plenty of extreme sex if that's what you're looking for. The final scene, between Antonio and Jess, is probably the film's best. Nothing hardcore, but an actual heartfelt scene with kissing and some tenderness before Jesse cuts it short and decides she can't continue on with their relationship. She tells Antonio to go to Berlin to check out SAFADO! and on we are to the next sequel...

The plot here is nearly the same as the first Fashionistas, with a few changes here and there. The sex is very extreme and BDSM oriented, but the scenes last for way too long, making this a 4+ hour feature. I ended up fast-forwarding through a lot of the scenes and felt like I didn't miss much. I'm not sure if anyone could sit through this entire film during one sitting.