Designer Briefs
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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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Corset Queen
Melbourne
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Covet Couture
Perth
Covet Couture’s full range for 08 is available for retail & wholesale purchase online or in stores! Covet Couture is Gothic-style Street, Vintage, Lolita, Military, Industrial & Romantic Clothing ranging from Carnival to Cabaret or Gothic Street to Vintage Vixen. The First Release of “Covet Street” is Functional, Sophisticated Gothic Street Wear. Made to be worn time & time again as staples. Covet Couture is sexy yet wearable street fashion in styles you'll wonder how you lived without.
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Sydney
Crypt Trash create unique objects of dark beauty & 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. Every piece is hand made or designed. 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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Melbourne
My mission is wearable glamour - to express externally what’s going on inside. A delicious collision of old meets new with a twist. Dolly Q creates fabulous things that are totally user friendly. ‘Many years ago as a 6 year old girl I sat at my grandmothers. Being Ballarat it was typically grey and rainy, … ‘I’m Bored’ I once said. Nan sat me in front of a sewing machine, & the rest is history…!’ Dolly Q is lovingly named after her grandmother who taught her to sew.
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Melbourne
Return to elegance with Dusk Moth Designs for men, women and children. Their handmade clothing, hair adornments and accessories are inspired by olde worlde gothic and faery glamour persuasions that drip with lace, ribbon, tulle, feathers and beads. For a more modern look the Zeitgeist range produces cutting edge industrial / gothic / rock / punk club and streetwear.
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Melbourne
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 original bags for girls n guys, & a small range of jewelry. The ‘Elvy Ess’ label is still so new that this is its debut public event! Clothing & jewelry in silver, steel & rubber is soon to come.
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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 often explore creative theme such as Cy-Burlesque or Cybolita. Combinations scream excess of colour, propose contradictions in patterns, or render the ‘unwearable’ wearable while exploring creative twists & expressive individualism.
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Melbourne
GOREgeous Threads produce gore and horror inspired streetwear. The designs are currently being worn by fetish models and bands in America and Australia.
There’s been an overwhelming response to this relatively new label and they already have 8 bands on their endorsement roster including Bodyjar, Daysend, Sydonia, and Five Star Prison Cell.
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Melbourne
Hell’s Blankets design alternative bedding and alternative bedroom products such as quilt covers, pillow cases, funny sleeping masks and creepy cushions. Their designs are inspired by lowbrow art and ‘rock n roll’ culture. Their quilts are tailored towards the fans and collectors of tattoo art, rock posters, psychobilly, hot rods, tiki, skulls, eyeballs, leopard print and generally weird and wacky stuff and have sold to the UK, France, USA, Netherlands, NZ and Japan.
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HIP.HIDE
Melbourne
HIP.HIDE offers a range of leather belts and skirts, using only recycled leather/suede. The skirts come in variety of beautiful earthy natural colours. Since the availability of colour is always changing this creates ‘one of a kind’ pieces. All skirts and belts are hand made using brass studs to piece the leather together. HIP.HIDE believes that when you wear a natural based product you also consume and attune to the essence of the raw materials.
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Melbourne
Immaculate Heart Magazine is an alternative lifestyle publication covering music, fashion, veganism, tattoo culture and also includes photoshoots with some of Australias best photographers and hottest alternative models. Immaculate Heart will be debuting its first issue exclusively at Worn Wild before it hits stores
mid-september.
www.myspace.com/immaculateheartmag
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Jewel Majestic
Melbourne
Tailored, sharp, sexy, mysterious, fitted, avante garde, feminine with masculine lines, masculine with feminine lines, diverse, timeless, majestic. The true gypsy deity is brought to life through powerful pieces reflecting individuality, mystery and an esoteric understanding of one's journey. Jewel Majestic has won both Designer of the Year 1994 and 1995 in Venezuela and was Finalist 3 times in Gown of the Year ‘Cocktail wear’ and ‘Fashions on the Field’.
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Sydney
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Leopard Vixen Enterprises
Melbourne
A relatively new company specialising in hair accessories, primping your outfit and bringing out your inner vixen. All pieces are one offs and unlike other hair accessories so you won't have to worry about copy cats! Order a custom made design! Easy to attach, inexpensive and fun for all!
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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. Her artwork draws heavily from Cabaret Burlesque and Oriental styles - particularly Japanese culture.
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Melbourne
Since launching Minikem in 2002 on the television reality series 'Search for a Supermodel', it's creator Emily Makris has been exhibiting and taking part in numerous Loreal, Mercedes Benz and BMW fashion festivals, Fringe festivals and other events. Her custom work and signature pieces have been seen on many a stage dressing circus performers, burlesque dancers and rock bands. Emily is an active performer, stylist, artist, model and art director.
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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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Canberra
Raven produces casual / semi formal clothing with a gothic / heavy metal influence. They focus on comfort & practicality with their designs to create a range of everyday wear with an edge. Raven also produces a range of jewelry, accessories, giftwares & homewares which are available in their very own retail outlet in Canberra Civic.
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Red Heaven / Pangaia
Melbourne
Red Heaven 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, available at their shop ‘Pangaia’.
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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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Melbourne
Sugardoll has hair accessories which will give you a whole new style. If you want a cute unique hairdo then sugardoll is for you! Their hair accessory selection will give you just what you need. Sugardoll specializes in cute skulls, hair bows, polka dots and rockabilly accessories. Sugardoll also has a cute range of clothing and other accessories. Sugardoll is launching its new range of accessories at Worn Wild.
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Perth / Melbourne
Wildilocks is the home of wild & wonderful hair extensions, dreadlocks and extreme hairstyling! Specialising in unique & exclusive hair extension techniques, Wildilocks gives you a host of options to spice up your hairstyle in a way no other salon can match. The Lockworks is their retail outlet now in Melbourne stocking hair accessories, clothing & boots of the industrial, cyber, tribal, rave & steampunk variety.
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Victoria
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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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 what ever the occasion. Street Fun, Club, Evening or the Dreaded day job!
Z~ENT!TY has something to show your dark material-ism.
