What Ripens in Shadows Renaissance Gown

There are gardens so rich with life that they seem already to be dying of it. Fruit swells to a feverish gold beneath the leaves, flowers burn in shades of flame and amber, and the whole dark abundance begins to take on the strange, heady splendour of something ripened just a moment beyond innocence. The What Ripens in Shadows Renaissance Gown is the grand apotheosis of that dangerous beauty - a magnificent cascade of midnight blue, tangled foliage, sumptuous fruit and smouldering blossoms, as though an entire forbidden orchard had been gathered into one extravagant vision. Opulent, theatrical and faintly decadent, it possesses the lavish excess of an old masterpiece in which paradise has already begun, ever so quietly, to spoil.

• Renaissance inspired cotton gown with soft feminine neckline and exquisite ruffled skirt
• Dramatic train can be worn billowing out behind you, or bustled up at the back to keep it off the floor
• Bustle detail features 8 covered buttons and 7 elastic loops so you can design your own bustle
  
• Corseted bodice with feminine micro ruffle trim to soften
• Empire line waist creates a striking Pre-Raphaelite silhouette
• Elegant puff sleeves which can be worn on or off the shoulder
• Fully lined

And what a glorious thing it is, this final hour before the harvest turns to ruin. When the branches hang heavy, the petals deepen in colour, and sweetness itself becomes almost intoxicating in its intensity. Here, abundance is no gentle pastoral idyll, but something darker, stranger and infinitely more seductive - a world ripened to the point of delirium, where every colour glows more richly for the shadows gathering around it. A gown of extraordinary splendour, for those who understand that the loveliest things are often those closest to collapse.

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Outer 100% cotton. Lining 100% cotton.

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