Worn Wild 2009
Sunday 15 March 2009
@ LaDiDa

Worn Wild March 2009 showcased 30 independent designers from all over Australia & the USA.

Alt Diva
Beserk Clothing
Candy Coated Sinners
Corset Queen
Crypt Trash
CSerpent Art
Dark Muse Corsetry
Dusk Moth Designs
Elvy Ess
Feral Fraggle
Fiend Magazine
FraggleLox
GeoMythik
Kitty's Coven
Konstant Kaos
Le Lash
Lilly Kitten Art
Lunatik Inc
Lyris Design
Mizzerie Debauch Accessories
Obsidian Lace / Pigskin Leather
Pangaia / Red Heaven
PM Leather
Scarlet Zaphara Jewelry
Sphinx Art
Vicious Klothing
Visage n Vice Boutique
Wiked Sparx
Za Dezign
Z-ENT!TY

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USA - Australia

Alt Diva is a new global social networking website for the alternative and sub culture market. AltDiva.com offers free online portfolios for photographers, models, makeup artists, hairstylists, fashion & accessory designers and retail & on-line stores. Ranging from newcomers, right through to topline industry professionals the site is designed to showcase their creative work.

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Brisbane

Born from the love of all things dark, Beserk Clothing is a cute + dark + evil label created in Brisbane by designer Fleur. Their range is inspired & fed by a love of Japanese Street Fashion, Medical Fetish, Skulls, Hearts, Horror & Nightmares in signature red/black/white colours. Simple & wicked designs that make you wish you were eating cotton candy while indulging in evil deeds.

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Melbourne

Candy Coated Sinners create a range of sinfully delightful treats in the form of jewelry, hair accessories and giftware. Inspired by an adoration of all things dark and spooky, combined with flirtatious frills, sparkle and glamour. Creepy but cute, delicate but devious. Amongst our kooky kreations you’ll find Victorian inspired cameo lockets, brooches and pendants as well as hair glam you won’t find anywhere else!

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Corset Queen
Melbourne

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Sydney

Crypt Trash create unique objects of dark beauty & a curious nature. Items of intrigue include colourful Halloween hair accessories & necklaces, Vaudevillian feather hair pieces, whimsical cameo & halloween pins, original bizarro artwork on cards and journals & other one-off creations of madness. Their involvement in flapper scandal & noir glamour performance arts informs their creations & styles.

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Melbourne

Cserpent likes to draws pictures of spooky little Victorian girls holding axes.....and glamorous flapper girls - such youthful, fresh, beautifully naive creatures on the cusp of lives of licentiousness, amorality and absolute sensual debauchery. Cserpent attempts to finance her "fabulous hats" fund by flogging paper, scarves, bags & brooches besmirched with her wicked illustrations.

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Sydney

Hailing from Sydney, Dark Muse is a corsetry specialist and has featured in the Lunar Morph parades. Dark Muse also create clothing and hair adornments for women and men.

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Melbourne

Return to elegance with Dusk Moth Designs. From olde world glamour to the latest cutting edge styles, Dusk Moth fashion embraces refinement & elegance throughout. The Dusk Moth collection of clothing & accessories represents a return to pride of craftmanship and hand made fashion with strong attention to detail,with many pieces being one offs or strictly limited editions. Beware of imitations!

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Victoria

With an ever evolving unique style Elvy Ess uses a range of techniques & materials to keep things interesting. The designs show great attention to detail & cater for an ‘alternative’ market. Elvy Ess is currently making handmade & printed clothing, original bags for girls n guys & a small range of jewelry. Jewelry in silver, steel & rubber is soon to come.

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Feral Fraggle
Melbourne

Wild Hair & Accessories

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Australia

Alternative Lifestyle Magazine. Born from the lack of genuine media coverage of the dark alternative culture in Australasia, Fiend brings together all aspects of fashion, music, nightlife and dark alternative culture, creating a regular, stylish, seductive and happening magazine that caters to the needs of the dark alternative community.

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USA / Melbourne

Fraggelox specialize in making fantastic anime-style custom wigs & hairpieces from easily attachable lightweight synthetic dreads. The handmade 100% wool fibre dreads come in nearly every color with a variety of lengths. Fragglelox styles are very bright and absurdly bouncy! Originally from the USA, Fragglelox has exhibited at Anime Central Con, Cyberoptix Runway, XNX Designs Runway, & HairCon.

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Melbourne

GeoMythik is an innovative fusion label which draws on the elements of Cyber-styles, Punk, Goth, Lolita, Deathrock & Boudoir Burlesque. Their unique corsetry, clothing & accessories for men and women explore creative theme such as Cy-Burlesque or Cybolita. Combinations scream colour, propose contradictions in patterns, or render the ‘unwearable’ wearable while exploring creative twists & expressive individualism.

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Victoria

Inspired by numerous styles and brands - most notably Cyber/Industrial crossed with Gothic Couture and Street, Kitty’s Coven, formally Shuswah’s Lair, is now taking the plunge and launching their own label.

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Melbourne

Konstant Kaos products would best be described as mainstream alternative using bold fabrics and designs with a twist. The label was inspired by the birth of their baby girl, making baby shoes with little bats and skull cross bones, then venturing into bags, pouches & pram covers. Tending not to work with pastels, products are handmade in Melbourne with high quality cottons and linens from around the world.

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Sydney

Australian made Alternative fashion for the dark generation and Divine clothing for the individual, all handmade by Leah.

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Lilly Kitten
Melbourne

Lilly Kitten Art creates quasi Disney / anime art in a variety of styles including sweet Lolita, Gothic, Tribal, Medieval Renaissance & Alternative pin-up. Their artwork draws heavily from Cabaret Burlesque and Oriental styles - particularly Japanese culture.
A Neo Victorian – Lolita – Funky Goth variety package.

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Melbourne

Lunatik Inc - clothing and accessories for men and women: Club styles, Raver and Cyberstyles.

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Melbourne

Lyris Design is a Melbourne based company that specialises in personally tailored custom clothing and corsetry. Every item made by Lyris is a unique creation and made just for you. With inspiration drawn from fantasy, myths and all realms of the imagination, we create designs to suit your needs, changing the outfit of your imagination into reality.

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Melbourne

Be outrageous...be unique...be covetous...be Mizzerie Debauch!
Mizzerie Debauch's collection of chokers, fascinators, bracelets, necklaces and mini top hats aim to reflect the wide spectrum of your true fashion tastes and needs whilst upholding an air of elegance and quirkyness.

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Obsidian Lace
Victoria

Obsidian Lace - corsetry, lingerie and clothing for men and women: Gothic, Industrial, Cyberstyles, Lolita and Girly.

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PM Leather
Melbourne

Peter Martin has created custom, goth, fetish and punk leatherwear and belts for men and women over the last three years.

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Melbourne

Pangaia is a fusion and reconciliation of opposites: organic textures in synthetic fabric and the past recast into the modern arena. The overall style evokes a natural, primal state inspired by the colours, layers and shapes in nature. The garments are hand dyed with Australian dyes and Japanese shibori-zome techniques. The designs are feminine and faery with assymetrical lines, flowing skirts and flowery sleeves.

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Scarlet Zaphara Jewelry
Melbourne

Scarlet Zaphara produces quality handmade jewellery and accessories. Inspired by Gothic, Victorian and Medieval themes, each piece is unique. Scarlet Zaphara aims to cater for a range of styles from the morbidly inclined to the darkly elegant. If you require something special, Scarlet Zaphara can also custom make to suit the individual.

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USA

High quality, unique, one of a kind, hand painted, sculptural ceramic jewelry and dark art. All items are limited edition. Unusual art for extraordinary people. Jewelry that makes a statement. Gothic, industrial, victorian, punk, gore, fantasy, mythical creatures, goddesses, and femme fatales. Materials: glass, clay, sculpture.

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Victoria

Vicious Klothing is a fresh label bringing a new wave of alternative fashion to Melbourne and Australia. VK produces rave, club and alternative streetwear by taking current and past trends and different styles then manipulating and turning them into a new format.

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Melbourne

Proud sponsors of Worn Wild, Visage 'n' Vice (VnV) is a new boutique catering to the alternative soul. Located in the heart of East
Brunswick at 514 Lygon Street,
V'n'V stock independent creations of clothing, accessories, hair pieces, ornaments & furniture pieces. V'n'V also provides custom design and one-off creation services.

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Wiked SparX
Victoria

Clothing & Accessories

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Melbourne

Based in Melbourne, Za Dezign is founded by Alexandra Crocker, a self taught textile artist. Za meticulously create to softly accentuate the female form and to sexily assert with striking style. Aspects of the Victorian era, antique textile, medieval buckle, ancient tribal archetype and elements of costume from traditional dance form can be discovered in each unique leather accessory.

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Melbourne

Clean & simplistic lines fused with your luna lusts accented with a cutting street edge. Z~ENT!TY Designs specialise in creating clothes that suit everyday purpose & will compliment your wardrobe whatever the occasion. Street fun, club, evening or the dreaded day job!
Z~ENT!TY has something to show your dark material-ism.

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