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...
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...
Michele Carragher’s Intricate Embroidery for Game of Thrones
When thinking of our favorite medieval-inspired fashions, we couldn’t help but turn our minds (and hearts) to our favorite show, Game of Thrones, and all...
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...
Fall of the Empire: Romanticism Through Dresses
Feature Image:
Dress, circa 1837, American. Silk. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund.
At the top of the 19th century, the Enlightenment and...
Wilde Hunt Corsetry
Photography: Frank Wiredu
Models: Karisah Brown, Lucia Corsetti, Maryam Jama
Fashion (except white lace gown): Wilde Hunt Corsetry
White lace gown: Style and Salvage
MUA: Ludie Senatus
The influence...
Venturing into the Countryside
Text and Photography by
THE SEAMSTRESS OF ROHAN
If you try to imagine what life was like for a woman in the early 19th century, Jane...
In A Lover’s Eye
For the Outlander television series, costume designer Terry Dresbach created an ensemble for Geillis Duncan that included a brooch containing Bonnie Prince Charlie’s eye as...
Finnish Fairy Tale Fashion of Mai Niemi
We hope you're having a splendid Friday, the kind that warrants an entire missive about the Finnish fairy tale fashion of Mai Niemi... who...
The Stitch Witchery of Gibbous Fashions
Selene Ahnese, founder of the company Gibbous Fashions, is a stitch witch. The fabric storyteller is based in Olympia, Washington. She collects scraps of...