Gilding Primal Instinct: The Executioner
Gilding Primal Instinct‘s beautiful F/W 2012 collection The Executioner features blades, gauzy veil-like textures, and alluringly alien metallic masks and headpieces These pieces perfectly embody the mission to “create an aggressive dichotomy between subtle, elegant forms and vicious primal instinct [and] translate practices of ritual adornment into iconic character archetypes.”
Tags: alien beauty, avant-garde, avant-garde goth, black garments, dark romantic, fashion editorial, hauntingly beautiful, jewelry, mystical/feral jewelry, primordial, witchy
Laura Mulder’s “The Unreal Reality”
This stunningly beautiful, structural collection, entitled The Unreal Reality, was designed by Laura Mulder as her graduation project at the Art Academy of Utrecht in 2011. Modeled by Thiska van den Heuvel and Lara Aimee, photographed by Cor and Leonie Baauw of Local Androids, with hair styling by Jenny Kroese.
Tags: architectural fashion, avant-garde, avant-garde goth, black garments, conceptual fashion, dark romantic, fashion editorial, high fashion, textured
“Inner Demons”
+ Photographer {Jerry Bennet}
+ Model/MUA {Manchester}
+ Wardrobe/styling {Alex London}Via Haute Macabre
Tags: avant-garde goth, black and white, bones, dark romantic, fashion editorial, feathers, headdresses, spooky animal-themed jewelry, textured
Ice Queen: Fashion Editorial for Dazed and Confused Nov. 09
Tags: collars, dark romantic, fashion editorial, feathers, flour-white face, hair, haute couture, high fashion, historically inspired, medieval inspiration, portraits, queens, renaissance, ruffs
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
A special exhibition dedicated to Alexander McQueen’s fashion designs will run from May 4 to July 31 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
{Pictures by Sølve Sundsbø}
Tags: art shows, avant-garde goth, conceptual fashion, dark romantic, feathers, flowers, haute couture, high fashion, mcqueen is dead, nature
Fashion Fix
Photographed by Sam Hernandez
Model: VelocityI don’t particularly care for the background in this picture, but I love how it displays the leather corset and cowl/collar-piece by Antiseptic Fashion; it shows up all the details wonderfully, the tortured textures and sinuous shapes and asymmetrical lines, looking like hammered metal, some ungodly-beautiful combination of medieval armor and the modern avant-garde. Absolutely stunning designs in my opinion.
Found on the Tumblr circuits. I have no idea who the fashion designer is, or any of the other people involved, but I love this avant-garde, alien-warrior-like look.
Photographed by Katarzyna Widmanska
Makeup & hair: Marianna Jurkiewicz
Crown: Kasia Konieczka (previous post about her here)Tags: antiseptic fashion, asymmetrical clothing, avant-garde, conceptual fashion, corsetry, dark romantic, futuristic, haute couture, headdresses, high fashion, leather, military/warrior chic
Five Dark Romantic Fashion Designs
Design by Evmorfia Bethanis
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via toxicnotebook on tumblr
Design by Bibian Blue
Bibian Blue
Design by VeconaRelated posts:
+ “Before the Tide Comes In”: A Fashion Editorial by Zhang Jingna + Mother of London
+ MishMash [002]: Well-Dressed for the Apocalypse
+ Vecona Clothing
+ “1.1 Negredo: The Raven”: A Short Fashion Film
+ “Anatomarie: The Autopsy Dress”Tags: avant-garde goth, bibian blue, corsetry, dark romantic, fashion photography, futuristic, haute couture, insane asylum aesthetic, military/warrior chic, neo-victorian, red, renaissance, ruffs, vecona
Trailer for “Sanatorium Altrosa”
This is a delightful trailer/short film for Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows‘ remix album Sanatorium Altrosa (Musical Therapy for Spiritual Dysfunction), which came out in 2008. It features the brain behind Sopor, Anna-Varney Cantodea, dancing to aurally enticing clips from the tracks.
Someone once asked me, regarding Anna-Varney, “Why do you like that guy? He’s so freaky.”
Hmm…okay, Anna-Varney Cantodea may be one of the more bizarre-looking artists out there, but I think she has a sort of strange beauty which is exactly her own, and isn’t just conventional beauty dressed up in macabre trimmings; she is able to evoke the deepest recesses of human anguish and horror; and her music is quite different from anything else out there. She is one of the rare musicians whose music actually has influences from what I imagine medieval and Renaissance music to have sounded like, and it has such an old-world, dark romantic vibe, with poetic, exquisitely melodramatic lyrics. Also, she is not “that guy.” She is just Anna-Varney.
And while we’re on the subject, some illuminating quotes by Anna-Varney:
“I grew up in a painfully ‘straight’ environment with straight women and straight men, where there was nothing whatsoever in between. I felt like an alien that had crash-landed on a hostile planet inhabited by carnivorous primates (and as it turned out: I was bloody right).”
“You have to understand that from my point of view it is complete nonsense to write any material in order to help other people. It’s totally pointless, because all I can really do is to write about myself, honestly and to a certain degree even ruthlessly.”
{On the rumor that she is infatuated with Darth Vader…}
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“But seriously, the blame is on some (French, I believe, though I cannot quite remember) independent magazine I did an interview for years ago. They tried to be creative, I suppose, so they closed their questionnaire adding a brief game of ‘making-free-associations’ by throwing this totally clever (ahem) list of words at me. The first concept they came up with was ‘black’…and I immediately was in complete awe of such overwhelming and totally unmatched creativity. ;-)
Now, as a good Goth, what was I supposed to reply? DEATH? Deprrrrrression? DARKNESS, even??? Grrrrrr…please! Give me a break, boys! So, instead, I decided to play clever bitch and gave them Darth Vader as an answer. Unfortunately, I had no idea that this would officially turn me into a Star Wars fan. But that’s what ‘Wank-a-pedia’ now says, so I suppose it must be true then. ;)”“A good album should be (amongst other aspects, that is) kind of like a tombstone…a sepulchre, where a part of the artist lies buried.”
Tags: anna-varney cantodea, dark romantic, insane asylum aesthetic, lovely quotations, neo-victorian, neoclassical music, retro, sopor aeternus & the ensemble of shadows, trailers, victorian mourning
“Before the Tide Comes In” by Zhang Jingna
I’ve just seen a fashion editorial featuring Mother of London clothing and photographed by Zhang Jingna over on Twisted Lamb which is incredible. Titled Before the Tide Comes In, Fashion Gone Rogue describes the concept as “a dark maiden of the sea.”
♥ Mother of London
Tags: black and white, dark romantic, fashion editorial, leather, mother of london, natural settings, zhang jingna
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