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...
À la Mode in Mushrooms
A ring of pale mushrooms sprang up with the morning dew, and tonight you’re going to fly and whirl in a mad fairy dance....
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...
Redefining Art Nouveau Style with Firefly Path
We’ve worked with gown designer JoEllen Elam Conway of Firefly Path on several projects—including our summer 2017 cover featuring six luminous fairies garbed in...
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...
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...
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,...
Music In Their Hands And Magic In Their Eyes
A cornerstone of gothic is finding beauty in the darkness. There is, after all, much elegance to be found in the macabre. Imagine a delicate footstep cushioned by the loamy soil of a seaside graveyard enshrouded in a cold, billowing mist.
Tim Gunn On Mermaid Fashion
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Do you feel that mermaids and mermaidly allure have a place in today’s fashion world?
When we consider the catalysts...
Art Nouveau by Moonlight
As the dawn of a new century approached and cityscapes became grayer, smokier, and increasingly mechanized, a group of artists found themselves yearning for...








































