What Lingers at Dusk Witchery Gown

Memento mori. Remember that you must die. There is a terrible beauty in this ancient warning, a reminder that even the most exquisite things must eventually surrender themselves to the earth. The Hour Before Vanishing Witchery Gown is a magnificent meditation upon that dark inevitability, its sweeping tapestry a nocturnal wilderness of poisoned emeralds, bruised blossoms and ghostly flowers, amongst which black beetles creep like the solemn custodians of decay. A vision of Victorian mourning and macabre natural history transformed into extraordinary splendour, as though some grand botanical masterpiece has been overtaken by the quiet, irresistible work of death. Here, the garden is neither living nor dead, but suspended in a state of exquisite corruption, its strange abundance rendered all the more beautiful by the knowledge that nothing within it can last.

• Bewitching open front gown decorated with velveteen ribbons
• Voluminous skirt with historical curtain front closure
• Sculpted corset inspired bodice, with low square neck and full boning
• French puff sleeves adapted from 18th century courtier dressing
• Corseted back closure for size adjustment with detachable modesty panel
• The narrow part of the sleeve is corseted and can be adjusted in width
• Fully lined

And still, how magnificently the dying world adorns itself. Every darkening petal, every creeping beetle, every last extravagant flourish of colour becomes part of nature's most beautiful and terrible ceremony. A final procession of blossoms before the darkness gathers, a glorious defiance of the inevitable, a vision so sumptuous that even mortality seems, for one fleeting hour, to have become something worth worshipping. For if all beauty must eventually vanish, let it first be utterly, devastatingly magnificent.

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Outer 100% cotton. Lining 100% cotton.

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