A Gothic Beauty

The Archive — Fashion Design

Six pieces — front and back

Heaven & Hell, cut and sewn into one seam.

Six all-over-print garments, built from panels I painted and photographed myself. They all say the same thing: the sacred and the profane aren't opposites. They're two halves of one body, and the seam runs straight down the spine.

Piece IA Beautiful Matrimony — the back

Piece I

A Beautiful Matrimony

All-over-print crewneck

A Beautiful Matrimony crewneck, front — a black sweatshirt printed edge to edge in red and white spatter with a winged figure burning across the chest Front
A Beautiful Matrimony crewneck, back — the print divides into a black field and a white field meeting down the center seam Back

Where the collection started. A winged figure burns across the chest in red and white. Turn it around and the whole idea settles into two flat fields meeting at the spine.

  • Three colors only — black, bone, and a hot red that never softens to pink.
  • The back divides black and white down the center seam, so the wearer is half of each from behind.
  • Sleeves carry the spatter at full density; nothing is left as plain fabric.
Piece IV

Lucille

All-over-print crewneck

Lucille crewneck, front — a black sweatshirt with a chrome-edged figure inside a torn silver halo, sleeves textured with roses and thorns Front
Lucille crewneck, back — mostly black with torn silver shapes and two small mirrored figure silhouettes at the center Back

Silver poured over black. The figure sits inside a torn halo that behaves like liquid metal, and the back keeps almost nothing — two small twinned silhouettes floating in a field of black.

  • The chrome edge is the print's whole language; every shape is defined by its rim rather than its fill.
  • The back is deliberately near-empty, so the piece reads loud from the front and severe from behind.
  • Sleeves carry a rose and thorn texture that only resolves up close.
Piece III

Ark Angel

All-over-print hoodie

Ark Angel hoodie, front — a high-contrast black and white portrait looking upward inside a spiked halo, with dense speckled sleeves Front
Ark Angel hoodie, back — a large white spiderweb with two spiders printed across the shoulders and back panel Back

A portrait pushed to pure black and white until the face is more shape than skin, ringed by a halo that reads as blades. The back drops the figure entirely and gives the space to a web.

  • No grays are allowed to settle — the print is thresholded hard so it survives at fabric resolution.
  • Sleeves are printed with a dense flock of small dark shapes that thin out toward the cuff.
  • The back web is drawn in one clean white line against noise, the only smooth mark in the collection.
Piece V

Vampire

All-over-print hoodie — Lust at First Bite

Vampire hoodie, front — a yellow and red posterized image of a bite at the neck, with the words lust at first bite set small on the pocket Front
Vampire hoodie, back — the word Vampire in a bleeding serif across a yellow-into-red field Back

The collection's hell colorway, one of only two pieces that burn. Yellow burning up into red, a bite held mid-frame on the front, and the wordmark bleeding down the back panel.

  • Yellow does the lighting; red does the shadow. There is no neutral anywhere on the body.
  • “Lust at first bite” is set small on the pocket, so the title sits below the image rather than over it.
  • The sleeves stay black, which stops the heat from covering the whole silhouette.
Piece II

Nexus

All-over-print tee

Nexus tee, front — a grayscale marbled print across the whole shirt with a small white butterfly on the upper left chest Front
Nexus tee, back — a black bird and a large feathered wing across the shoulders above a bare tree, with a small horned winged figure at the lower right hem Back

The quietest piece and the most literal. Gray weather on the front, and on the back a vertical order: a black bird and an angel's wing at the shoulders, a horned figure hanging off the hem.

  • Full grayscale — the only garment in the collection that lives in the grays between black and white.
  • A single white butterfly sits high on the left chest as the front's one fixed point.
  • Both sleeves repeat a small key motif, so the hierarchy reads even with the arms down.
Piece VI

Phoenix Rising

All-over-print tee

Phoenix Rising tee, front — a flame-red field with a winged angel rising and the words Rising From The Ashes Front
Phoenix Rising tee, back — a burning gate under fire, with Welcome To Hell scrawled in black Back

The collection's fire chapter, worn. The front carries an angel rising out of flame under the words RISING FROM THE ASHES; the back opens the gate itself — WELCOME TO HELL scrawled beneath a burning arch.

  • The loudest color field in the collection — flame red into yellow at full saturation, edge to edge.
  • Front and back read as one narrative: the ascent on the chest, the gate on the spine.
  • Serif engraving on the front against a hand-scrawled black mark on the back — heaven's type, hell's hand.

The panels

Before it was a garment.

Each piece starts as a flat painted panel sized to the cut. These are three of them at full frame, beside the label's own mark, before the pattern is wrapped and the seams take their bite out of the image.

Matrimony panel — a red, black, and white painted field with a winged figure at the center
PanelMatrimony
Lucille panel — a long-haired figure haloed in torn silver, beside twin silhouettes, an inverted cross, and a skull
PanelLucille
LOVE LUCY — the official wordmark with a horned red heart
Official markLove Lucy
Lust panel — the word Vampire in a bleeding serif over a scratched yellow and red ground
PanelLust

Six pieces exist. The rest is still on the table.

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