We watched The Golden Compass last night, which, I must confess, was ho-hum. Did you like it? I was far too aware of the spectacular-ness of it to really just enjoy it as a story, as a film. Now I’m just crazy about whirling gears and shiny, pseudo-Victorian mishmashed technology, and DIRIGIBLES! I can’t get [...]

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I started this list on the chalkboard in our attic room, and slowly each of us has added to it. This is it so far, want to add to it?
Daniel Craig in anything (Sarah)
Zooey Glass from Franny and Zooey (Alice)
Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre (Sarah)
John Lynch (in the movie version of) The [...]

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Sebastian Horsley – Mr. Horsley is a very naughty man, even the United States government agrees and would not let him enter this April siting his moral turpitude. That may be so, but he is also vicious, witty, intelligent and dare we say, wise. He has made being a dandy and outlandish his life’s work. [...]

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Photographs © Seamus O’Keeffe

Today we feature the lovely Siren posing in a graveyard setting wearing our Agnes Sorel dress. Doesn’t she looks amazing in it, and amazing herself?! We are envious of her gothy  loveliness.
Send us photo’s of you wearing one of our dresses, we think we are going to have a contest this summer, who [...]

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Our father was a kind-of-goth in the 80s. He insists there wasn’t the term when he was what he was, getting all misty-eyed about New Romantics and Blitz Kids; now he calls himself a ‘recovering goth’.
We live in a huge haunted house. Our father converted the attic in to a studio for my sisters and [...]

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Doona Bae should be our friend…

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When we first stumbled upon Gothic and Lolita fashion it was very hard to find resources, books or magazines, that weren’t either so obscure they were practically invisible, completely in Japanese or so expensive we would just sigh and walk away, trying to put them it of our minds. However, as our numbers swelled it [...]

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As we write this it’s raining. Rain, rain, rain. All day Alice has been muttering,
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe…
Now Dame Darcy is one of the original Lolita’s, and we remembered that ages ago the lovely Dame Darcy performed Mr. Carroll’s Jabberwocky on her television show and we thought, we MUST see that again! And so, here [...]

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Liisa Ladouceur is a rock star to us. She is a Toronto-based poet and arts reporter, the go-to-goth-girl if there is darkness about and an opinion is needed. She has worked and written for CBC Radio, MuchMoreMusic, Eye Weekly, and Chart magazine to name but a few. She is the Blood Spattered Guide music columnist [...]

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We are addicted to magazines…and books…and…

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