Worn Wild 2009
Saturday 5th September 2009
@ Colonial Hotel
Worn Wild 2009 showcased 27 designers from Australia, Japan and Mother Russia.
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Atom Bomb Baby
Hiroshima, Japan, Melbourne
With the help of her own daughter, Karol has established clothing label Atom Bomb Baby to speak out about all the lives lost due to the bombing of Hiroshima and pay tribute to her parents. Jumpers, dresses, t-shirts, caps and beanies appear in her range with the Atom Bomb Baby logo based on the bomb “Little Boy”. Her label is commonly referred to as unusual yet wonderful and continues to attract attention.
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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
Bone Orchard sells Gothic Victorian accessories and homewares for women. Using recycled frames for the light and lamp shades the styles reflect a mix of old and goth. Their parasols have featured in the Sydney Luna Morph parades.
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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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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
Now six years strong, Devil Doll is a Melbourne-based label which combines cheeky figure-hugging designs in classic and retro styles with a dark twist. Outfits and accessories for every glamour-puss and smouldering goddess. For MSFW Devil Doll will be promoting their new line of 50’s and gothic influenced hair adornments.
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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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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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Sydney
Gallery Serpentine is an antidote to the mundane. Our designs are inspired by the romance of past era but with intense wearability for todays deliberate costuming. Our specialities are corsetry, Victorian themed skirts and coats with a twist of cabaret, burlesque and vintage. We offer 15 corsetry styles in a standard size range from 6 to 20 plus custom sizing.
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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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Melbourne
Hexotica creates jewelry and accessories in a dark cabaret,
gothic-burlesque style using ribbonry, beads and wire in unique and exotic ways. Having learnt most of their beading techniques while overseas in Japan, Hexotica's products are perfect for those who prefer a darker shade of retro glamour!
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Melbourne
Lunatik Inc - clothing and accessories for men and women: Club styles, Raver and Cyberstyles.
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Melbourne
Mizzerie Debauch offers a range of one off, standard and custom accessories that reflect all aspects of alternative style, whatever the occasion, whatever your style, we have something for you. Specialising in gothic and pin-up styles, Mizzerie Debauch always endeavours to achieve an air of elegance and modesty with each piece.
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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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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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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
Hailing from Russia, Purpur Fashion’s Goth and uniform-style outfits are influenced by military propaganda of the 1930-ies and 1970-ies Soviet science fiction films. Kate Musina offers a custom made service as well as regular off the rack styles.
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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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Victoria
Street Vamp is a label by Melbourne-based illustrator, Sara Jean Brimfield. Her aim is to provide guys and girls with gritty street-edge style with a range of tees and tanks featuring tattoo-inspired art and characters that combine quirky and evil into one. Sara Jean has been illustrating for 5 years and has had her artwork featured on Avant Cards. She is also a web and media freelance designer and has a children’s clothing label, Jeangeeny.
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Victoria
We stock one of a kind, quirky pieces that are lovingly handmade. We create for different audiences, from alternative to children. Our accessories are a stylish addition to any outfit. We also do custom orders for those that want something particular.
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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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Melbourne
Designed like no other, XSIV Leather is hand cut, tooled & assembled so that it’s built to last. Most pieces consist of Italian leather and stainless steel. No expense is spared! XSIV Leather caters for many subcultures from intense metal or fetish pieces to stylish elegant artwork suitable for any formal occasion.
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X-tensibility
Melbourne
X-tensibility specialises in synthetic dreadlock hair extensions and wool extensions and falls. The perfect way to funk up your hair without the hassle of natural dreads. Every single dread is hand made to ensure quality and longevity.
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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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