Nightshade 2022 Vendors

Browse the galleries below for vendor information, webshop and social media links, and examples of past works. Be sure to follow them on social media for sneak peeks of what to expect during the event!

 

Based in the DC area A. Gato Designs aims to create items designed for comfort, inclusivity, and expression. Everyone should wear the garments that make them happy regardless of how they identify, as clothing has no gender.

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Belladonna hand makes fun, flirty, and feminine clothing and accessories for every person. We love to spread our colorful, glittery, and lacy aesthetic with every piece we produce. We aim to have ready made clothing to fit a wide variety of body types and sizes, but because everything is hand sewn, clothing can be custom made to fit any measurements.

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The Black Ribbon is an SF-based brand that focuses on small batch production both in house, and small local factories. We make dresses inspired by our designer’s favorite eras in fashion and textiles we find in our sourcing process.

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Specializing in antique & vintage gentlemen's accessories such as cuff links, Blackbird Finery is working to make the world a more dapper place one cuff at a time.

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Beauty can often be found in the abstract and the bizarre. It can be found in unlikely places. Calamity's Carnival dwells in the abstract to find the beauty often hidden in plain sight.

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From stationery to clothing, Cottonbook creates collections of watercolor-painted patterns that bring the magic of the forest into your daily life. They specialize in wooden pins featuring afternoon tea delights and tiny animal friends.

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Dandy Puppeteer is an indie brand that specializes in Japanese Lolita & Ouji Fashion. Our handmade products include jewelry, clothing, and accessories. Dandy aims to create an inclusive space that embraces the idea that alternative fashion can be worn by anyone. Each collection is lovingly crafted by hand and inspired by puppetry. We want our pieces to open windows into small worlds through storytelling and design.

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Eat Me Ink Me is inspired by the elegance of the past eras and alternative influences. Reinventing the eternal battle between style and fashion, Eat Me Ink Me tries to invent stylish clothing from fashions long gone. Using the prints and materials both new and vintage, EMIM tries to tell stories through clothes to make each piece magical, ensuring they’re still unique, long-lasting and comfortable. The person wearing the pieces is strong-willed, knows what they want and will get it no matter the obstacles. They wear their clothing as armor for battle, yet staying feminine and classy.

Eat Me Ink Me products will be available at The Black Ribbon’s booth.

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Meaning "Flowers of the Stars", Flores Astorum aims to bridge the distance between Japanese indie brands and the rest of the world. Each designer is like a shining star, and their works are like flowers that make the world more beautiful piece by piece! °˖✧

Flores Astorum products will be available at The Black Ribbon’s booth.

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Haenuli is a Lolita fashion brand and Nunu (Haenuli is her real name as well) is the designer of this brand. She has focused on lolita fashion for about 13 years, including work as an illustrator. She is most well known for her artwork series showing the relationship between a girl and a skeleton published in the book Their Story: The Story You Don't Know. She continually wants to expand herself with diverse moods and styles, going from gloomy to fairy tales, doll creation to book design, and everything in between.

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Half sweet, half spooky, and 100% kawaii, Iris Garden takes everything you know about lolita fashion, and infuses it with care, quality, and love. Accessories, jewelry, and clothing all to help you feel your cutest, most magical self.

Iris Garden will representing her own brand, as well as EvilLive, Baroque, and Lief

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At iconografi we independently create originally designed alternative fashion that can be enjoyed by everyone! We're a small and growing family business run by women of color, incorporating and reimagining aesthetics of alternative fashion, anime/manga, and videogames to design pieces that add to any look from cosplay to everyday!

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Like the advent of an angel, metamorphosis, and transformation, Metamorphose temps de fille cherishes the girlishness of Lolita fashion; Metamorphose’s clothes transform you to cute, elegant or cool.

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Mossbadger produces limited edition garments and accessories, using original textile designs, resin casting, and classic millinery techniques. Mossbadger's designer, Jordana Robinson, is influenced by symbology, folklore, history and magic, and specializes in silhouettes based on Japanese street fashion and vintage anglophilia.

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Neant Glass creates handmade stained glass accessories to bring traditional gothic elements to your coords. Each piece is hand-cut, ground, and soldered using traditional glass making methods and the highest quality architectural glass materials, with fine gemstones and metals.

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starcrossed lovelies is a kawaii accessories and apparel brand inspired by magical girls and celestial love stories

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