Jardin d’Ébène Afterglow Gown

Size	Bust (in)	Waist (in)
3XS	29	23
XXS	31	25
XS	33	27
S	35	29
M	37	31
L	39	33
XL	41	35
XXL	43.5	37.5
1X	46	40
2X	49	43
3X	52	46
4X	55	49

There are gardens that reveal their true splendour only after darkness has fallen. Their roses deepen to the colour of dried blood, their petals turn the bruised shades of crimson and antique blush, and the last golden remnants of daylight seem to smoulder amongst the blackened leaves. The Jardin d'Ébène Afterglow Gown is a magnificent vision of this nocturnal romance, its sweeping, diaphanous folds alive with a profusion of shadowed florals, like some extravagant Dutch still life slowly surrendering to the passage of time. There is something almost intoxicating in its darkness, a beautiful excess of flowers caught between their fullest bloom and the first exquisite intimations of decay. A garden of ebony and fading roses, where romance has grown wild, melancholy and just a little dangerous.

Romantic gown with cascading ruffled skirt
Bodice with underwired cups
Tightening corset at the back of bodice
Self-tie shoulder straps which can be adjusted
High leg slit with 2 sets of poppers to adjust
The leg slits up to the waist, and the poppers close the slit to the top of the thigh

And how tenderly the darkness gathers what remains of the flowers. The last crimson petals, the soft perfume of roses beginning to fade, the delicate traces of a summer that has already slipped beyond remembrance. Beneath the gathering shadows, their beauty becomes something richer and more sorrowful, as though every blossom has learned to cherish its own impermanence. A gown like a love letter written in the final colours of a dying garden, where even the loveliest things must eventually surrender their petals, but not before one last, magnificent flourish.