My flyers

Here are two pics of my flyers. I've forgotten to mention the artists names who made posible these beautiful pictures! (Here's the link, if you want to have a look)
http://the-black-wardrobe.blogspot.com/2008/10/black-widow-collection.html

Photography: Ian Mountain

Make-up: Laura Corcoran

Hair stylism: Rachel Flaherty

Please, have a look at my website and let me know what you think! My items are also availabe at the Rose and Anchor boutique, in Liverpool.

Siren evening gown

If you are looking for a "look-at-me" dress for this christmas or just for a very glamouours night. I think you might LOVE! this dress. It's been for sale on the boutique since last week and I think the retail price is around £95.

It's completely elastic. Made with jersey (medium thick, not see-through, 100%acrylic) and gorgeous european lace (from Nottingham), I don't where exactly from, as the mill has closed down so now this fabric has become a little treasure. The neck is finished with satin at the back, and the middle panel on the bust and waist is gathered. It is high-waisted with long puff sleeves.

Size? The same size as all my dresses, medium/large.

(87cms bust, 70cms waist, 95cms hips). But it stretches very widely so if you are slightly wider, don't worry because it would still fit you like a glove (that's the brilliant thing about elastic fabrics).

Here's the boutique address and phone number:
66 Wood st.

L1 4AQ-Liverpool

(0151 7073590)

The Black Widow Collection

New dress!

I'm thrilled to present one of the last looks I've just created. The satin shawl collar dress.

It's a three-quarter length dress with puff long sleeves. Satin shawl collar with pleats detailing on the sides. Feminine and flattering, it frames the neckline in a beautiful way as well as it emphasizes the dramatic shape of the shoulders. The highwaisted skirt hugs the figure and it elongates it. It's made with completely stretch lace. Hope you like it. It's for sale on my etsy shop!

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15934296

All prices on Etsy are in dollars (because it´s an american website), so if you are in Europe and are interested in anything and want to pay in british pounds or Euros. Please, contact me!

My etsy.com shop

I'm thrilled to announce that my etsy shop is been opened for a while but it has had stock for sale since yesterday! Not all my collection is been posted yet, so please keep an eye on this blog and the etsy shop because I will post new items as long as I do them.
Please, have a look at it:
feedback is very welcome!

theblackwardrobe.etsy.com

Spider brooches

More spider brooches! I've been doing fimo spider brooches for my Black Widow collection. I like to decorate them with crystals (swarovski, mainly). However, the last time I was in Spain, I bought some gorgeous crystals and they're impossible to find! As you can see, they are massive (over 3cms long and wide) and they shine like mirrors, specially the grey colour.
If anyone has any ideas where to find them, please, let me know.

The Black Widow Collection, for sale!

Oh yes! To all my fans out there who have been asking where to get my collection. I´m ecstatic to confim that it will be able to be purchased from tomorrow!

It will go for sale in the Rose And Anchor boutique, in Liverpool. (66 Wood st., L1 4AQ)
If you are interested in anything and can reach the Beatles city, here´s the shop´s phone number: (00 44) 0151 707 3590

Alternatively, for all of those who don´t live near the NorthWest or not even in England, Please be patient, as I will launch an e-boutique the next week. I will keep you informed.
Thanks for your interest, again.

More corporate gothic pieces: cobweb dress

As I said, I'll be posting pics of my work so you all can see it and express your opinions as well! So far, no-one has commented anything yet.

This particular one is very very retro, more retro than gothic, I think. It's a fitted dress with a extremely flattering low neck with darts on the bust. It really emfasizes the bust and the cap sleeves are made of tulle-lace. Nice......isn´t? Gorgeous for a night out, an office cocktail party or even for work.

More corporate gothic pieces: panelled lace top

Here comes the second of my new pieces....
Do you remember my strap-less top?
You can have a look at this slide-show
http://the-black-wardrobe.blogspot.com/2008/05/check-out-my-slide-show.html

Well, this one is super femenine and it reminds me of those retro lingerie bustiers...
It has lace panels and two chiffon straps that come out from the lowest point of the centre, they really accentuate the shoulders and also, emphasize the bust. Beautiful....
Unlike the cobweb top, this top is not completely finished yet...
Hope you like it!

I´m back...with more corporate gothic pieces!

Here, I´m again....sorry for the delay.

I´ve been working in new pieces to add to the Black Widow´s collection. So I will start posting pics of each garment in the next following days...

Here´s the first one.

I was very impressed by the amount of interest in the cobweb top so I added a new variation that I hope people will like too.

The Black Widow

There´s one of my looks which I´m really proud of: the last one (which I hadn´t had the chance to post any pics of it yet). Here´s some photos. As you can see, I literally re-shaped the figure to make the model look like a black widow and the clothes ARE NOT heavy! Intriguing, isn´t it?

Pictures of Black Widows

The black widow fascinates me so much. That black skin - adorned by that dramatic deep red mark-is so deeply shinny and silky it screams to be touched like a piece of silk.... But that´s the trick of the spider, she makes you believe what it is not.


On the third picture you can admire how a wimpy male is going to be eaten. Poor thing...so skinny...but its destiny is been traced by the black widow!

the story behind The Black Widow Collection

I´ve been showing the pics of my collection´s clothes but I think I haven´t explained yet where it all came from and I think that might be of some interest to this blog´s readers....

I´ve always been interested in Goth, (this is not the first time I´ve designed a gothic collection) but before starting the collection I didn´t have a clue what theme I would choose this time.

"A movement in the corner of the room!

And there is nothing I can do when I realise with fright

That the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight!.."

I am a great fan of The Cure (I went to see them in Barcelona, last march) AND I live in a semi victorian house. Why is that relevant? Well, when you live in a building which is over 200yrs old, despite cleaning and looking after the features, the wood, the furnishing.....because everything is SO old and not in such a good condition anymore, spider start doing some home-hunting. On top of that, the heating system is very good in british houses and everybody knows that spiders love to live in a quiet, dark and dry place, very far away from the british weather´s harshness....

I suddenly felt like Robert Smith in the Lullaby video. I was seeing (and I still see) spiders all over the house: in the bath, on the corner of the windows, behind the computer... All kind of sizes (tiny ones, big ones-as big as half of one of my fingers...) Sometimes I used to see something with very long and skinny legs, walking on the wood flooring gracefully as any other femme fatale.....

THE FEMME FATALE (she IS a black widow!)

As many other people, I´ve always been fascinated by the golden age of the silver screen and classic retro glamour in general. Therefore this became the second base of my collection, in fact, if you do a bit of research in fashion Gothic history, you realize that modern female goth look takes its influences from s. XIX (voluptuous figure, small waist and big hips, extremely pale skin...) A classical look that it would be carried on until the second half of the century when bikinis allowed people to go "semi-naked" to the beach and get tanned like prawns.

The black and white cinema enfasized the dramatic silouettes of the female beauties and the pallor of their skins within the b&w shadows, in fact, the make-up artist Max Factor used to apply black make-up! in order to enfasize the facial features over the whiteness of the skin. Extra-long sofisticated dresses that sticked to their bodies like gloves, re-shaped the bodies (as corsets and long skirts had done in the earlier century) making them looking evilishly beautiful and tall: the divas used to show an aparently feminine and fragile look that was semi-covering a strong, and sometimes, maquiavelic character.

Logically, all these features can be applied to the spiders,

especially THE BLACK WIDOW.

Obviously a female criature, seduces, gets what she wants and then gets rid of the poor now useless male subject. As any other old fashion femme fatale, the black widow is a deep shinny black criature with a tiny waist, very voluptuous bottom and long and gracefull legs...

The perfect evil......hated, not only because she gets what she wants but because she shows to be a clever and independent being that happens to be female.... and some men still cannot swallowed the idea of being out-stripped by a woman...

During centuries, the spider has had different meanings among very different cultures. But in the western context, the spider has been linked to Treachery and Death. Seen as a "swindler" or a "destiny´s weaver", the spider has been a symbol of life (due to her ability to create webs and her fertility which has a strong sexual component) but as well, "Death" and "Destruction" because those same webs that she brought to life can take you to death. They are a trap that seem what they are not so you easily fall into them, awaiting for the monster to come for you and kill you with her poison....

Check out my Slide Show!

Hi everyone! I hadn´t updated the blog for a long while.......The reason: I went to Spain to show my Black Widow Collection. The Black Widow Collection has been my final year´s proyect at Fashion College and I went to defend it in front of the Jury. I suspect they liked it...but you never know. I´ve collected most of the pics, taken on that day and join them in two slide shows. This is the first one. I´m still working on the second one. Coming soon!

If this is the first time you are visiting this blog or just don´t have a clue what the hell I´m talking about, click on the "Black Widow Collection" tag. Enjoy your browsing!

5th look, all pics are blurred sorry....

Here comes the 5th look!
Long sleeved victorian shirt with lace panels on the front. Collar in satin.
If you look closer, you will see satin seams between the lace panels. It is meant to create the effect of a cobweb.
The pencil, high-waisted skirt has sating "legs" that stand out from the surface.
I do apologize for the quality of the pictures, again....
I´m sorry....

4rd look

Here it comes the fourth look!
It´s a jersey jacket with a high-waisted pencil skirt.
The interesting bit is, if you look carefully at the pictures, you will see that the ends of the satin collar are twisted in such a way that they create the optical effect of pointed spider legs. Tricky, isn´t!
The skirt is also interesting, the main panel on the middle is jersey lace and on the sides there are satin pieces that look like spider legs! I do apologize for the bad qualities of the pictures, as soon as I got a spare moment I will take a proper picture of every single of my looks.

spider brooches

Do you remember my fimo spiders? Well, I made some more but with crystals on them. This time I applied them before putting the spider inside the oven and they obviously melted (as I would had predicted) but they did it in such a beautiful way! They look like little P.V.C. buttons. I will definitely carry on with more experiments and I will start selling them online, this summer.

3rd look

The 3rd look had been finished ages ago but I couldn´t post it because my computer doesn´t seem to recognize my mobile anymore. Therefore, I had to take new pictures with a digital camera so I could transfer them to the computer. Enjoy your browsing.

Better pictures of the first look

I know I am a pain on the arse and a bit too obsessed with my first look but, I truly believe this pictures do more justice to my look.