The Colour of Ruin Debauchery Gown

“The corruption of the best is the worst.” — An ancient maxim

There is a dreadful splendour in the moment when beauty begins to corrupt. When the most exquisite things, once so perfect in their loveliness, surrender themselves to excess, to decadence, to the slow and irresistible seduction of ruin. The Colour of Ruin Debauchery Gown is a magnificent vision of this beautiful deterioration, its vast, sweeping tapestry awash with the feverish greens of decomposition, tarnished gold and the strange, bruised colours of flowers left to perish in their own abundance. Like a once-immaculate paradise overcome by some exquisite contagion, its extravagant folds seem almost alive with the terrible luxury of decay. A gown of glorious, corrupted excess, as though beauty itself has become so magnificent that it can no longer survive its own splendour.

• Layer cotton bridal gown dripping with delicate vintage lace
• Achingly beautiful bustle detail at the back with soft, romantic drapes
• Bustle features fabric covered buttons to secure your bridal train off the floor. You can use different buttons and loops to customise your bustle
• Hitch detail at the front skirt to expose a black ruffled underskirt
• Boned bodice and corseted back to sculpt your figure
• Velveteen trims throughout
• Fully lined

And what a beautiful thing it is, to watch perfection come undone. To see the gilding tarnish, the petals blacken, the last traces of innocence disappear beneath a magnificent profusion of rot and colour. For ruin does not always arrive as something ugly. Sometimes it comes dressed in the most exquisite finery imaginable, trailing its splendour across the darkness, a final, delirious celebration of all that was once lovely, and all that has become wonderfully, irredeemably wrong.

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Outer 100% cotton. Lining 100% cotton.

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