There are so many avenues to explore with clown inspired fashion! From creepy to vintage, to involving alternative subculture styles like we did in this visual kei clown shoot!
“Clowncore”
Model: Mindfractation
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Dress by Gloomth
Street fashion is one of my favorite things in the world! Seeing folks come by Doll Funeral coordinating my work has been the most incredible experience. Tommy’s style is unlike any out there!
“Goth Decora”
Model: Tommy Charles
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Dress by Gloomth
A cottage garden on the cusp of summer, golden light and the scent of flowers filling the air…
“Cottage Garden”
Model: Luna Pumura
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Alice’s Pool of Tears” jsk!
Punk lolita vibes in a tangled cityscape.
“Punk Lolita”
Model: Gwen
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our red spiked jsk!
The early 2000s were a time of tech-booms and what felt like limitless possibilities of an online future. Beneath that subcultures examined the shadows cast by that sort of consumerism.
“Digital”
Model: Azura Rose
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Licorice” dress!
We were so honored to throw a Tea Party with Moon Kana! She has always inspired us here at the ‘Cult. There’s something so subversive about her punk rock elements with soft gothic lolita fashion!
“Moon Kana”
Model: MOON KANA!!
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring several of our dresses!
I love doing over the top elaborate shoots with complex outfits, but there’s something just as fun about showing really wearable “real life” versions of our outfits. Gloomth in the wild.
“Gothic Shopping”
Model: Jessica Rose
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Wearing our “Fondant” dress!
A dreamy cool morning, spring light finally turning everything shimmery and beautiful!
“Sheer Lavender”
Model: Lucy Lovesick
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Periwinkle” dress!
Wandering the chapel after the sermon she found no peace, only hymn books stacked in the corners and the smell of lemon wood cleaner.
“Spring Cemetery”
Model: Gwen
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “October” dress!
An all red gothic outfit suitable for royalty!
“Red”
Model: Dolly Momoiro
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our red spiked blouse!
Shades of nostalgic pink. Reclaiming a color insulted and belittled by men for ages, armor for a modern life.
“Dreamy”
Model: RatsTeaParty
Photographer/Set: Taeden Hall
Featuring a couple pink Gloomth dresses!
Some places just instantly feel like home, even if they’re tremendously haunted….
“The Blumberg House”
Model: Fine Lines
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring a variety of our designs!
The world feels sick and sad these days, there is no cure but art and creativity. Making magic out of the shadows while we all try to survive.
“Antique Gurololita”
Model: Pixie
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Cure” dress!
In a workshop filled with haunted dolls, one winds to life. The scent of roses fills the air….
“Victorian Experiment”
Model: Azura Rose
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our spiked dress!
Down every alley is a new story in the city, a new landscape to explore….
“Visual Kei”
Models: Mindfractation, Yasmine
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Domestique” dresses!
Once upon a time, in a forest wreathed in snow there was a witch’s house. Inside dwelled the last of her line, a pale witch who dispensed potions and salves to any locals brave enough to seek her out for aid…
“Witch’s House”
Model: Azura Rose
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Ingrid” dress!
The carousel we used in this shoot is from 1911! You can read about the history of it on our blog.
“Antique Carousel”
Model: Maddyvstheinternet
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Black Licorice” dress!
The first half of this shoot with the metallic backdrop is secretly named “Baked Potato Devil”…..lol
“Alt Devil”
Model: Em
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Clothing by Gloomth
Winter light drifting inside. Cold pallor. Cold floors.
“Red x Black”
Model: Karen
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our spiked blouse!
The contrast of soft, flowing ruffles against a crumbling city backdrop.
“Pastel”
Model: HOTARU
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Bruise” jsk!
The strangest paths lead down crumbling hallways, mysterious rusting hardware creaks to life around us….
“Surveillance”
Model: Yasmine
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Night Rose” dress!
Alt fashion influenced by the environment, the decaying commercial landscape consuming us….
“Underground”
Model: Pixie
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Bruise” dress!
In a world that feels faded and cruel, magic still exists. Hidden in winding city streets shimmers something beautiful, something fascinating. You only have to look.
“Fairy”
Model: Luna Pumura
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Iris” dress!
Crumbling capitalist structures, once optimistic and polished decay under fluorescent lights.
“Food Court”
Model: Maddyvstheinternet
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Fondant” dress!
The ghosts of capitalism past. Haunting liminal spaces swept clean every night under fluorescent lights. Shadows of what once was…
“Alt Mall”
Model: Mind Fraction
Crown by Circus of Peril
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Weaponized” jsk!
A dazzling array. Tangled light and toys, the shimmer of metal against fabric.
“Messy Bedroom”
Model: Dolly Momoiro
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring a variety of Gloomth designs!
There are so many underutilized capitalist structures. Cement monuments to dreams and goals that have long crumbled. We love finding those spaces and exploring them with our shoots!
“Liminal Spaces”
Model: Azura Rose
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Black Licorice” dress!
Sleeping beauty but make it alt.
“Dreamy Floral”
Model: Purrblind
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our spiked dresses!
The breeze drifting in from the lake, tinged with wildflowers and woodsmoke. A pastoral dream harkening back to the past…
“Pastoral”
Model: CheshireCat
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Ghost Queen” dress!
Summer by the public pool. The smells of chlorine, freshly cut grass, and bubblegum. Sunscreen smears and melting popsicles….
“Public Pool”
Model: Fine Lines
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our '“Syrup” dress!
A daydream down city streets, ruffles against steel fences, and crumbling cement.
“Summer City”
Model: Pixie
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Alice’s Pool of Tears” Dress!
Poison blossoms and winding paths. A greenhouse filled to the brim with plants.
“Greenhouse”
Model: Karen
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Weaponized” dress1
A tangle of sun bleached bones, the waves gnawing at the shoreline. The cliffs of sand slowly withering in the distance. The world’s end.
“Sunbleached”
Model: Azura Rose
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Claudia” dress!
Daydream up your own little world. Something magical and bright, filled with blue skies and shimmering possibilities. Maybe placing your heart in the care of a fantasy is safer than in the hands of a real person right now….
“Gothic Fairy”
Model: Maddyvstheinternet
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Amalthea” dress!
This was my first ever shoot in a new city! Montreal is so beautiful and shooting in the older parts of the city was like a dream. I hope to do more road trip shoots this summer!
“Montreal”
Model: Anda
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Havisham” dress!
Winding country roads, flanked by fields of wheat and corn. An empty expanse is a contrast to the gritty city streets we usually frequent.
“Countryside”
Model: CheshireCat
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring a variety of our designs!
Drink from me and live eternally. A blessing and a curse.
“Vampiric”
Model: Azura Rose
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Valerie” dress!
Come to our poison cake tea party! A strange dream of doll parts and ghostly apparitions….
“Poison Cake”
Models: Dolly Momoiro, Yasmine
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring a variety of our designs!
Spring is a season of rebirth. Of the blossoming return to ourselves, to light and life. Underneath all that newness is a shadow of death, always keeping pace with us…
“Gothic Spring”
Model: Jessica
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring a variety of Gloomth dresses!
Gothic dreams in forgotten castles….
“Gothic Shadows”
Model: Cindy M Yu
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Valerie” dress!
Spring creeps behind a veil of snow, crocuses perk awake in the shadows of bare trees. Hibernation ends and we return to ourselves.
“Neon Rabbit”
Model: Vanessa Walsh
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring a variety of Gloomth designs!
There is something so compelling about dying malls. These once optimistic spotless consumer wonderlands are now withered shells. Someone still sweeps the floors and waters the plants. Mall goth fashion is sort of a reflection on the garish bright consumer culture, the dark underside of the subburbs.
“Mall Goth”
Model: Azura Rose
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Viola” dress!
It was such an honor seeing the amazing Sara Camposarcone modeling my designs! Seeing how she styled some of my favorite pieces really brings them to life in a new way!
“Sara Camposarcone”
Model: Sara Camposarcone
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring several Gloomth designs!
Dolls left in the attic create their own dreams…
“Dollhouse 2”
Model: Purrblind
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring several Gloomth designs!
Shadows and spiderwebs. Antique toys in the attic coming to life in the night….
“Gothic Victorian”
Model: Fine Lines
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring several Gloomth designs!
As the world grows increasingly hostile to anyone different we retreat to fantasy, to building our own world. One free of the hatred and limitations imposed upon us.
“Red Neon Cross”
Model: Autumn
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Placebo” dress!
Crafting a space entirely your own, a safe haven, a site of worship. A reflection of the inside corners of your mind…
“Dolls”
Model: Yasmine
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Viola” dress!
Stories cling like dust to found objects. Crucifixes with tarnished centers, dolls with matted hair and shabby dresses, books with chapters missing that we can only guess at….
“Haunted Dolls”
Model: Yasmine
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring our “Periwinkle” dress!
Wintery shadows, the cast of colored light against tattered old lace. Textures and themes.
“Lace”
Model: Azura Rose
Photographer: Taeden Hall
Featuring an array of our designs!
