How To Be A Modern Romantic
Photography by KATERINA PLOTNIKOVA Model NORMILA
Who doesn’t want to be romantic? But I don’t mean romantic with a small r. I mean capital R Romantic, like the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was discovered...
Three Decades of Painting Powerful Women
Admirers of fantasy and science-fiction art will no doubt already be familiar with Julie Bell’s name. She’s had over five hundred works of art published for the purposes of illustration and marketing since she began...
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 a secret sign of her political allegiance to the Jacobite...
Anijsmelk: A True Dutch Treat
Article taken from Issue #37 || Winter 2016
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Text and Photography by Paul Himmelein
Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals, Jan Vermeer—think back to the days of the old Dutch Masters, when cultured men and women of...
Stitch Magic
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GRACE NUTH
I encountered intentional sewing as a concept when my Gothic-literature-loving mother gave me Barbara Michaels’s Georgetown trilogy, which explores the possibility of human emotion and, indeed, magic actively embedded into objects—a...
A Faerie Village of Gingerbread & Snow
Article taken from Issue #33 || Winter 2015
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Photos by Vince Chafin
Here’s a fun project to satisfy your faerie’s sweet tooth, have a fun family day, and create a magical look for your winter table!...
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Art Nouveau Elvenlands
All images © The Tolkien Estate Limited 1937.
Tne moment, I was walking through the steel-and-concrete labyrinth of New York City. The next, I had entered the Morgan Library, taken its glass elevator to the...
Mori Girl Child Of The Forest
PHOTOGRAPHER HAKARYO WITH AMARIS PHOTOGRAPHY
MODEL ZING RUBY
Japan: culture of both Miyazaki's mythic forests and trend-setting Tokyo. It’s a land of creative expression, and one very visible outlet for this expression is fashion.
Over the last...
An Invocation to Witches
Photography: Val Gleason (@vallerina01)
Models: Tiffany Megan (@the.seasonal.scottish.lass), Ginkgo Greene (@ginkgogreene), Haylie Hopkins (@hotmesshaylie)
When searching for the right cover for this vintage witch issue, there were so many possibilities. The figure of the witch is...
Rainbow-Washed Correspondence
The holiday season offers many delights, among them the chance to gather with loved ones, share meals and conversation, and reflect on the turning of the year. What of our far-off friends, though? I’ve found that,...