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
“Magical Thinking”: Tim Walker for W Magazine
Models: Xiao Wen Ju, Asia Chow, and Liu Wen
Styling: Jacob K
Photographed by Tim Walker for W Magazine, March 2012Tags: fashion editorial, fashion photography, hauntingly beautiful, high fashion, historically inspired, interiors, otherworldly photography, strange beauty
Sorcha O’Raghallaigh’s Fall/Winter 2011 Collection Lookbook





{Designs by Sorcha O’Raghallaigh
Photographed by Saga Sig
Styled by Anna Trevelyan}Tags: avant-garde goth, black garments, black roses, fashion editorial, flowers in hair, garlands, halo, mystical/feral jewelry, primordial, religious imagery, serpents, spooky animal-themed jewelry, sterling-silver jewelry, tattered, transparency/layering, witchy
Bevel Jewelry New Collection
Take a look at these lovely images from the lookbook for Bevel‘s new collection of preternaturally beautiful jewelry.




Tags: avant-garde goth, bevel nyc, bones, fashion editorial, jewelry, mystical, spooky animal-themed jewelry, sterling-silver jewelry, white, witchy
“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
Diego Indraccolo + Pok U Chan



These images are from Schön! Magazine, photographed by Diego Indraccolo and illustrated by Pok U Chan.
Tags: art nudes, avant-garde, black and white, dark ethereal, fashion editorial, ghostly, illustrations, inky, otherworldly photography, surreal, transparency/layering
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
“A Monsoon Litany”

A Monsoon Litany by Luki for DEW Magazine
Tags: colorful, dark ethereal, fashion editorial, flowers, hauntingly beautiful, high fashion, makeup, nature, otherworldly photography
Eye-Love [007]
Photographed by Ben Hassett for Vogue Paris February 2008 {scan by Céline M.}Tags: avant-garde goth, bandages, cute/creepy little girls, dollflesh, fashion editorial, heart, high fashion, joao ruas, lost fish, medical-themed, pop surrealism, queens, self-portraits, white hair
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