Tokyo15

4.15.2009 @ 6:54 pm UTC by lilah wild

Tokyo15 80's rainbow braceletAn original line of clothing and jewelry is tucked within this site’s utter toybox of a catalog, featuring Corpse Bride, Evangelion, Naruto, Transformers, and always, a Totoro. The wearables are gentle pastel dreams of bunnies and ice cream, matched by handmade candy bracelets and earrings in the jewelry section. Also colorful stationery and happy plush.

Fancy Ephemera

4.2.2009 @ 4:43 am UTC by lilah wild

Fancy Ephemera Ziegfeld girl paper doll fanPaper dolls that go crazy with fancy dress, drawing on Hollywood costumes, literary heroines, historical figures, and wedding attire for all kinds of detailed outfits, from 50’s lingerie to drop-dead ballgowns, especially drop-dead ballgowns. Jane Austen, the Ziegfeld Follies, loads of Victoriana and some flappery pretties, and don’t miss the artist’s 1990 prediction of 2000 bridalwear which is deliciously sci-fi villainess, menacing lily scepter and all.

Sock Horror

3.17.2009 @ 4:32 am UTC by lilah wild

Sock Horror dollsUtterly ridiculous sock animals made with crossed button eyes, witchypoo stripes and other loud prints, and sometimes plushy protruding organs. It’s not often you run across a dollmaker who offers a choice of wound colors, and custom is welcome for doppelgangers to take on the hair color and body art of their keepers.

Dark Creation

3.5.2009 @ 4:59 am UTC by lilah wild

Dark Creation macabre mannequinHorror dolls where vampire fangs are just the starting point – yes, there are lots of Victorian children, but steampunk aesthetics surface with cameos replacing missing eyes, and glasses balanced delicately atop deep gashes. And let’s not get started on the clowns. While many of the dolls are fit for tabletop display or nestling among pillows, the mannequins take things to a life-sized level of creepiness. Also, “blood can be added to any doll at buyer’s request.”

Space Tribe

2.16.2009 @ 5:21 pm UTC by lilah wild

SpaceTribe UV neon cyber artCyber/psy fashion that features an amazing pants section: cargo, bondage-strapped, flared, bum-flapped, spiked, zipped, they’ve got it. The catalog goes for both psychedelia and UV trim in pixie hoodies, longsleevers with heavily decorated arms, tank dresses, wrap skirts that could step in for pocket belt duties, and the pocket belts themselves. The fun continues with trippy stuffed animals, spiked helmets, and eyepopping neon art.

The Sarcophagus Store

2.6.2009 @ 3:05 pm UTC by lilah wild

The Sarcophagus Store gothic skull buttons“Art and curios from the Royal Sarcophagus Society.” This site gathers together a bunch of odd little brands that embrace the lighter side of morbid, with a dash of Ye Olde Weird. Coffin boxes, cute toothy skull buttons, lolita dresses from House of Pomegranates, greeting cards both anime and inappropriate, Quoth the Raven t-shirts, vegan soaps, ragdolls and sweetly grim toys, with the neoVictorian streak surfacing in the shaving solutions and Arsenic And Oolong Society tea sets. The fine art section features classic black and white cemetery photography for the more dead-set ubergoth.

One World Is Enough

1.10.2009 @ 7:43 pm UTC by lilah wild

One World Is Enough silk patchwork festival dressFair-trade fashion of the festival and hippie variety, everything imported in small batches from families and local collectives in Thailand, Tibet and Nepal: dresses of silk sari patches, psychedelic hoodies and paisleyed bellsleeves, skirts tiered and layered, striped button-downs and batik pants for the guys, and kids’ stuff too. Also puppets, singing bowls, Bodhisattva paintings, Buddha statues, and loads of housewares.