So the Burlesque scene has kept on growing even with all the economic doom and gloom, I guess people still need cheering up.
Burlesque clothes have been everywhere for a while, but shoes for burlesque have been hard to come by so when we were offered the Bordello brand we jumped at it. The first few styles are in and there are loads more coming.

Bordello Shoes for Burlesque

It's been ages since I've had time to post anything on here, we've been crazy busy again.
We're thinking about doing some more 50's dresses for the summer, but the choice is huge, so any suggestions on fabrics and cuts would be most welcome.
We get asked about men's goth clothes alot, and we try to keep plenty in stock but the bottom line is that men's lines just don't sell as well as girls stuff.
Why? are we stocking the wrong stuff? do blokes just not buy as many clothes as girls? or is it becuase most guys on the alternative scene spend 90%of the time in jeans and a T-shirt like me?
Well there are some awesome mens tees coming very soon amongst the new range of Iron Fist Clothing that we'll be launching next week, we don't normally go in for brand names but the artwork on the Ironfist stuff is cool, brandname or not so we had to do it.
So, Corsets, we're still carrying plenty of goth corsets, but have corsets gone mainstream? and if so does that mean that the alternative scene will drop them?

Now that Emo Fashion seems to have run it's course, what's next? the 50's/rockabilly look is still going strong, and the traditional goth scene is as strong as ever but what's next for the kids? Well the fashion always seems to follow the music scene, 80's hair metal seems to be making a comeback so perhaps we'll see 15 year olds in spandex jumpsuits sporting poodle perms? I hope so. 80/90s thrash is having a bit of a revival so dirty denims and basket ball boots with tongues like cricket pads could be back in.

We asked our customers what brands they wanted us to stock and the most frequent reply was criminal damage so here we go, Criminal Damage
So what do you reckon? yay? nay?
Criminal Damage's more recent stuff has moved away from the goth look a bit but there are still some gems in there.


There's a whole load of new stuff from Necessary Evil on it's way too.

We've been mad busy the last few weeks, we've moved to a new warehouse, been working on new designs, done a couple of photoshoots and all sorts of other stuff.
I went and saw Ministry on monday night in Wolverhampton too which was cool.
People kept asking us for corsets, so we've just added  some more to our range, so if your interested have a look at our corset section.
The pics from our latest photoshoots came out really well, you can see most of them here
In other news I'm pretty much crippled having just carried a very old industrial sewing machine that weighs more than I do up a flight of stairs.

ok so it's been about six months since anyone here posted so I thought I'd take a moment and bring the big stuff up to date.
It's been nuts here for the last few months, we've been frantically adding new lines to the site and the day to day running of things has kept us all pretty busy.

But now we've made some time to design fab new lines, hooray!.

Kate's been presenting me with sketches of new garments on bits of paper, cardboard, napkins etc and I've been drawing up patterns for samples.
I love pattern cutting but it's always stressful deciding how to size things. There is a British standard for sizing but it was written about a million years ago when everyone was malnourished and stick thin so it's worse than useless. We always do our best to size our designs so they will fit real live people and not just stick insects but it's an uphill struggle since most of the big manufacturers vanity size to such an extent that their sizes are meaningless.

Oh, and we've launched a new website, have a look at www.edgefashion.co.uk.
Love it or loathe it , it looks like the emo look is here to stay and we've been getting a steady stream of request for more emo clothing .
So we thought we'd have a go......

Emo fashion has come out of nowhere over the last couple of years, and while we'll always be first and foremost goth it's nice to have a new challenge.

Me and the lads went and saw the wildhearts at rock city on saturday.
The venue moved the gig into the little room which was actually quite cool if a bit crowded.
As always they played like bastards and everyone left bruised and sweaty.
I particularly enjoyed Ginger saying that they may have banned smoking in night clubs but as far as he knew they hadn't banned sparklers, then handing out sparklers to the crowd.
How nobody lost an eye with sparklers in a moshpit I'll never know.

i feel like hell and i hate myself and i hate everyone and i want to die, when i say die i mean go back to bed till the moment passes.
I'm not a rubbish drinker, at all but for some reason last night turned in to a 3 glass vomit fiesta. After taking one for the team when my mate fancied some guy who like me so i pulled his mate to balance the sitch, i staggered off and got a repeat performance of everything i'd drunk.i dont remeber getting home but i do remember a rather feeble attempt at cleaning up after myself. it was more like just spreading it about a bit. Loser!
i haven't thrown up from drinking since i was 16, i'm so baffed

well anyway, at work now and can't even look at the screen. hope nobody notices i smell of stale wine and fags :(

hows everyone else this fair morn?

A bit of a personal one today. aside from my face really aching so does my little not so emo heart. i have the worst luck with boys. having just done the whole massive break up thing with Mr Everythingtome of 3 years i meet someone who is practically magic, besting thing since cheese and i fooking love cheese and he's shall we say, been removed for stock. blood lame. oh well, ho hum and one wanna take me out on a date? ...no takers...

on to the more important things of the day. massive party under way looking like the 3rd of novemeber now. have booked SIN for the venue on charing cross road. so any of you models/performers keep your eyes open on dark arts for the up and coming job ops with the night and for the rest of you london based party animals check out the event myspace and FOOKING COME!

Sabrina

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We've all got Sabrina's Lurgy, our crack team of biologists have narrowed it down to either bubonic plague, the ebola virus or possibly just a hangover.

Ben

...which is a feet in itself... whats the deal with community sites. I really want a fully comp site that isn't just a an ezine but allows my the facilities that myspace and facebook have...or on the flip side i want a myspace/facebook site with some real content. i know its hard to have both but i'm wondering if i'm just being pedantic or if other people are interested in this too. I was thinking that alt community sites dont really move fast enough to a be worth a real regular look and then you just forget about them. With sites like myspace and facebook you're on there much more often to check the random crap you've been sent but thats all theres not real information value to them...i dont know

any ideas guys???


Sabrina

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Lurgy update from yesterday, now i have blood lust and have infected half the office...later we are going to the pub to pray on the innocent...i figure that if we eat drunk ones we wont have to buy drinks.

in other news today we liberated a big moth.

for those of you interested in my fashioning about...got 2 massive parties to plan and 15 models to find at least (will do that part next week, but prep begins today)  and a whole load of articles and press to pimp out.

hows everyone elses days panning out?


sabrina
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Its what i love, what i'm interested in...i can't be alone in this. I really wanna talk about clothes. call me shallow i don't care, i have to talk about everything else with everyone else but here now i wanna talk about fashion...GOTHIC FASHION

Pissed off with the 'passed it' fetish market... i know i am. nothing new has happened for ages, how long are we going to count on rubber exhibition pieces to lead us? what about what we are all wearing to clubs? what about home modification? also how can people who know nothing about the alternative/gothic/rock and roll life style possibly contribute to the fashion of it. I don't think anyone realises how much cashing in is going on out there. People selling you stereotyped ideas of what goths/alts should wear, IT'S OUT DATED AND UNORIGINAL.

please use this community to discuss these issues with me. I can't even work out what real alternative people want to wear from what they are being told to wear...

...discussion open



Sabrina
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man this sucks. i feel like i've been vaccumed up and the thrown out of hte back door of my house and shat on by my neighbors cat. anyone got a remedy for me?...no? i think i'll vit c-ing it up for the next day or so. laying in bed wishing i had the energy to get on with life.
sympathy to all those with lurgy today, hit me up for some love!

sabrina

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In the earliest days of September all of us at Kate's clothing were working our butts off to support Necessary Evil Clothing at the London Edge Alternative Fashion Expo. . . . Well less like work and more like play as we socialized the days and nights away at the expo, the parties and of course the Hilton bar, no edge is complete with out a few Hilton Bar stories!

Personally I go mad for the Edge as it’s a massive sneaky peak at everything that’s about to hit alt fashion. It's a great op to get a head in what your wearing (I’m ashamed to say that for some of us girlies that’s important) I spent half of my time working hard interesting new customers and the other half drawling at everything there. The new Necessary Evil range was on display too for added drawl factor. being one of the happy few working with them I got to take my pick from all the gear for a daily out fit...needless to say I tried everything on and wore it all at least once...stunning. I have of course put my order in for 1 of everything in a size *ehem*

Of course the clothes weren’t the only thing to interest a girl like me... Edge also means...PARTY TIME. Drinks at the exhibitors party, champagne and Mr. India and Sambuca at the Hilton bar... all this on night 1! Met some really great people there too, including Dirty Sanchez's Pritchard.

 

By the last day it was fair to say a great time was had by all…but so were hangovers!

ha-ha

i'm figuring you out live journal! now we have a gallery, yes yes and its taking me forever to uploads these pics. as i have the attention span of a gold fish with brain damage i recommend that if you like our gallery, check it from time to time as i'll keep adding to it as much as i can bear to look at the loading screen.

on another note

do you like my dress in this user pic...i can't understand why no ones picked up on this little number yet, it's so hot and yet still remaining fairly exclusive!?!

I will forgive you if you say this looks a little bit emo


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I still though the band were very cool

and as for losing sun...


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yep liked them lots too

and for those of you who wonder what my hangover was like


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I seeming kept it together...


well maybe not


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Can i just start a small chant...everyone with me now....

ED STONE ED STONE ED STONE

now

LOSING SUN LOSING SUN LOSING SUN

great thanks for that, i felt to give them some love back for the amazing night we spent rocking out in Lincoln last weekend. It was one of those nights where i really didn't think that I had drunk too much till I was with Kate in an empty bar way past the witching hour dancing to "I need a hero, followed by "Touch myself". But lets look at how i ended up in the sorry state...

Beers 0-5
First band we caught were ANEMIC, tattooed, 'Sancho' looking boys ripping it up with a sound thats very current and a signature of the NY Rock movement at the moment. Great on stage antics, the front man even spent time singing from the crowd in a huddle with fans. They stayed all night to party with their fans which always gives you brownie points in my book and with Ed Stone behind them, you can't go wrong

Then for our head liners LOSING SUN

Beers 6-10
Put on a great show and won us all over with their talent, good looks and stage presence. Thick vocals coupled with electronic 'S.O.A.D' esc metal created not only an atomsphere but a really lively pit. Ed Stone must be proud to have them on board. However the best thing about Losing Sun for me is the fact they stayed to party all night, even though tired from touring, clearly have their priorities straight. Catch more details and not to mention better written details from our in house journalist Oisin on our press page soon, with images and all the trimmings. Also see some of the best pics on our Necessary Evil clothing page.

Final Big shout out to Attitude Clothing for the on road banter and sharing that bottle of Jagermiester, lovely stuff!

Beers lost count and hammered

I have never been so drunk in my life! 24 hours after the event pictures of my bum escaped across the internet to cause me massive shame and happy memories but enough about me, the event was of course far more interesting.

BloodStock DAY 1

For me and the rest of the peeps from Kate's clothing day one was about meeting fellow Bloodstockers. Out we went, armed with camera, give aways and flyers to snap the well dressed, the over dressed and the clearly under dressed ; ) Hopefully for those of you reading this, that meant you! Within a few hours me and me brave counterpart had met Pirates, Centurions, Druids and Drunks...unfortunately for me no storm troopers, but that would be another blog altogether. With cries are "YAR wench be mine" not nearly enough blood in the alcohol system we partied through the day to bring you a gallery full of festival delights. Take a look HERE to see if you can spot yourself... and keep and eye out for the reoccurring red head in the distance you may recognise her from some of our userpics.

BloodStock DAY 2

Now this is when things got really interesting. After some serious Blag work, and some help from 2 really good friends of mine (HUGE SHOUT OUTS TO KIERAN, and LUCA TED MAUL) I managed to get myself back stage to meet Cristina Scabbia from Lacuna Coil with a few small gifts from us. I tried to hold it together as best I could but 2 days of soild drinking got th better of me. After about 2 minutes of being professional I proceeded to tell her about how much i love her and how me and my friends all listen to the band, 0 to full on fan in less than 120 seconds...star struck, I feel so embarressed, its not like I don't work with bands all the time on the channel and for the brand, I really hope she doesn't think I'm Lame now...if she does... I blame the pint of Jack and coke!

BloodStock DAY 3

...Rain Rain Rain...not much else. With the flyering done and Cristina introduced to our off the shoulder shirt I rocked out hard for the rest of the festival, only breaking to pack my stuff. Big highlights were Birmingham's own Benediction (absolutely blinding especially for a soaking wet day) and Special \m/ horns \m/ up to NEMHAIN for rocking the ass out of the 2nd stage, for those of you who missed them, make sure you check them out, tipped for the top and hotter than hell. Once again check out our gallery and press page for the full shabang and article, which includes a cheeky snap of me with Anders from In Flames, who were as ever in a league of there own.

much love to all you Bloodstockers, leave me your thoughts....
 

Oh btw anyone who can find said picture of my bum on the net from bloodstock I will personally give you a gift, but you'll have to look hard

Tonight me and the guys from Kate's clothing are off to Lincoln to see our good friends at Ed Stone clothings tour featuring the band Losing Sun. Watch this space for all the gossip from the night. It should be a good and Drunken one. We're meeting up with the guys from Attitude clothing who are not shy of a good party and of course Ed Stone are know for pure metal partying. There should be some great pics and loads of rocking out. will up date you asap with a few stories to make your hair curl!

Be Bad

Sabrina