Lovesick Crystal Extravaganza Costume

Tearose silk corset, with wide lace applique, and many, many gross of crystals, was created for burlesque performer Miss Mitzy Cream. It is very difficult to capture in the photo, but the design of the patterns in the lace were heavily embellished with tiny jet crystals:

A plain strapless bra(purchased from La Senza) was also embellished with lace detail and many, many crystals:

A closer look:

There was also a matching silk and lace skirt(not documented, ooops!). The ensemble was rounded off with an ensemble from Trashy Lingerie, in Los Angeles, which was modified with jet crystals painstakingly applied to each tiny polka dot and the existing lace applique. 

If you see Miss Mitzy Cream performing in this, tell her to send a nice video of the act and some stills !

Lovesick Burlesque Costume is accidently Fashion !

Sauci Calla Horra from the legendary Toronto Burlesque Troupe Skin Tight Outta Sight approached Lovesick Corrective Apparel to build her a very special costume for their Valentine's Day production. The Valentine's extravaganza is loosely based on the book Voluptuous Panic, about Weimar Berlin, with lots of cynical decadence. Sauci brought sketches and notes, and this is what was created:

A black velveteen bolero and skirt, trimmed with black human hair, worn over a pink satin corset that sparkled with thousands of pink and AB crystals

The skirt holds a surprise, though. When it was removed, the meaning of its pink satin innards was unmistakably revealed !

The rest of the ensemble was modified department store lingerie, with perverse conversions such as snap off heart shaped crystal encrusted nipple covers and tear away sides of the panties.

It was a confusing moment, however, when not one but two designers had their runway shows for Fall/Winter 2012 and showed black skirts that appeared to be trimmed with black human hair !

Here is John Galliano for Dior:

And Gilles Deacon: !

Skin Tight Outta Sight are greater visionaries that I had imagined ! I was just the conduit for this design -- it was conceived by Sauci Calla Horra and Tanya Cheex.

http://www.skintightouttasight.com

Photo of Sauci by Toni Wallachy: http://orangeroads.com

Divinesque in Silver Glitter Vinyl Ensemble !

Drag performer extraordinaire Divinesque performing live (not lip syncing)at Toronto Pride, 2010 wearing a custom silver glitter vinyl bullet bra and matching corset. Looking FIERCE ! Check out the amazing video about what it takes to be Divinesque :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E4bDmSA5CE&feature=related 

Wonder Woman Corset

This corset was made for one of Wonder Woman's biggest fans. It is heavy satin, with many, many handcut leather appliques. The best of the 1970's Lynda-Carter-as-Wonder-Woman-from-both-t.v.-network's costume elements were combined. It doesn't fit the antique dressform that well, as this Wonder Woman was still living undercover as a man at this time...

Shadow Ball 2004 at the Art Gallery of Ontario

Somehow this update kept slipping through my former web designer's fingers and never got posted...

The Shadow Ball was a gala Halloween fundraiser for the AGO. For the second year in a row Lovesick Corrective Apparel was invited to dress a model, and to attend the event.

Widow was my model for the evening. The premise was that she was the Virgin Mary, on a date with the Devil, before God stepped in. She was radiant in a matte silver leather corset, with matching leather and metallic lace sleeves, and an invisible skirt. Her pure heart burned brightly. The Devil, however, was trying to put on a good show, and was trying to say all the right things. Anyone who looked closely would notice that the Devil's heart was rotten, and surrounded by a halo of flies. The Devil was kind of spineless, and therefore needed a back brace. What the Devil didn't know was that his important tail was tied in a knot -- therefore rendering him powerless.

I don't know if you can tell in the photo but I was suffering from a terrible headache, and did not get my costume completed due to my former neighbor, "Frankenstein", slammer of doors at all hours, who took offense at my late night sewing and pounded on my floor at 2:30 a.m. Or maybe the headache was caused by the little plastic nun finger puppets I made into devil horns. As much as I was trying to wear the Devil, the Devil was wearing me.

www.blackwidowsweb.org 

Detail of Fox Spirit Costume for film "The Ache"

The costume was done in the spirit of Mrs.Haversham, in Great Expectations, in that it needed to look like it had sat abandoned, waiting for some time. The Fox Spirit appears in Asian mythology as a malevolent spirit that is able to transform itself into a beautiful young woman to engage in trickery. It transforms itself by placing the skull of a virgin on its head, and jumps three times under the full moon. There are tales about the fox spirit's wedding, but no one has ever seen this...

"The Ache" was written by Louise Bak and produced and directed by Keith Lock. Her contention was that the fox spirit was very powerful, and even as it wed, needed to be controlled. The dress costume was made from red heavy satin, discarded lace curtains, human hair, gold leather, velvet ribbon, red patent leather. The long bondage mitts are lockable.

The actress in the film never wore this. It appears dressed on an antique form in the corner of her home, gathering dust and waiting...