Fairy Felted Creations
Incorporating a love of all things fairy tale and fairy into day-to-day life is a constant challenge. It helps to find little ways to...
Woodland Wonderment: The Enchantment of Ellen Tyn
She strikes an elf-like and enchanting figure on her Instagram, her riotous fluffy mass of sun-blond hair flying behind her as she runs through...
Storybook Couture
French designer Sylvie Facon takes fairy-tale couture to a new level with her intricate, otherworldly, and seemingly impossible gowns that are themselves storybooks. You...
Design Harmony: Justina A. Prince
Though 18th century corsets are not in her normal repertoire, designer Justina A. Prince has always had a love for fantasy couture that combines seemingly...
Rainbow Curve Corsetry
“This piece was inspired by the old chestnut tree out in front of my cottage. The moist Irish weather forms the perfect climate for...
Klaus Haapaniemi’s Magical Creatures
Owls and spiders and ladybugs, hares and swans and whales, bats and bees and crickets … The designs of Finnish artist Klaus Haapaniemi are...
Marriage and Mourning in White and Black (and Eventually Red)
Photography by
ROYA DIAR
Model: Mahafsoun Cape: Costurero Real
Back up a bit (again). We’ve returned to the Middle Ages, and black underwear does not exist yet.
Olde-tyme...
Firefly Path and Fancy Fairy Wings & Things Garb the Midsummer...
In a flash of light, Titania’s court arrives, all berry-stained lips and shimmering wings. Their gowns are gossamer and diaphanous, their eyelids drooping languidly...
The Alchemy Of Parrish Relics
“Go to nature in all singleness of heart … rejecting nothing, selecting nothing and scorning nothing; believing all things to be right and good,...
Atelier 19 – Jan Knibbs Design Studio
Fashion and textile designer Jan Knibbs, whose couture work we feature in “Time for Changelings” on the preceding pages, recently fulfilled a dream she’s...