It’s kind of hard to describe their aesthetic without sounding over the top so I feel some hyperbole coming on. It’s sort of a frayed Neo-Victorian/Dickensian/fairy tale/Gothic world and therefore perhaps a derelict, romantic Tim Burtonian world. It makes the every day world theatrical. It is decidedly fey and the name itself conjures up the enchantment of the light of the night. So...I am more than a little in love with it.
More mundanely, I guess I like the way the scraps of clothes are carefully chosen to come together to form something so vivid and distinctive. And the sense that the evolution of the garments is organic and doesn't stem from a pattern.
Last words from the daily poetics blog which used a Robert Browning quote for the Gibbous post:
I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!
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