a8817 Online No. 27
"This will sound strange but we got offered human skin as a material to work with way back in our early ‘goth’ shop days."
Under the Blue Moon Festival, held in Newtown each Halloween, is linked to an alternative fashion weekend. A convoy of antique and horse-drawn hearses that travelled down King Street has marked the occasion.
This is the place to buy tailor-made straightjackets and beak-like plague masks; originally designed to protect specialist plague doctors in Italy in the 1600s.
This business has moved to 112 Enmore Road, and the shop Holy Kitsch! has taken over the former location.
Gallery Serpentine has been making garments, including corsets, for its fashion label for the past 16 years.
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