Jul 11 2008
Gothic Luxury at Gloomth
My young hippie daughter just started a new job as photographer/web correspondent at our local newspaper. I must remember to tell her most recent subject about Gloomth, a designer devoted to ‘the cult of melancholy.’
According to Taeden Hall, the Toronto-area writer/illustrator who is designer and driving force behind Gloomth -
Horace Walpole was first to coin the term Gloomth, when referring to the members of the Victorian subculture that revelled in the morbid, embraced the strict mourning garb eternally, and frequented the elaborate cemeteries of the era. (read more)
(Reminds me of one of my all-time favorite movies, Harold and Maude.)
The skirt shown above is called “Wilting Tulip” and Ms. Hall writes a terrific description. She starts off with :
Spring is here, time to plant your tidy rows of belladonna and black fringed tulips!…An ideal skirt year round, it’s comfortable and drop dead Gothic sexy. Made of luscious violet fabric with a sturdy weight like suiting fabric. It has a touch of stretch through the width to make the skirt ultra comfortable. (read more)
How can you resist?
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