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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Summer Witch Hat Tips
Now that the weather’s warm and we’re trading in our felted, velveteen, and otherwise weather-inappropriate headwear for straw …. we thought we might need...
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,...
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...
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...
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...