The Creature of the Cabinet is a costume designed on the given theme of Gothic for her final year at university.
She approached Gothic as a dark version of Romanticism, therefor exploring the darkness and the strange as how they can be fascinating. Researched focused especially on Cabinets of curiosity, chimera and fantasy creatures. She creating a fascinating character who embodies beauty and the strange, with a touch of death.
The costume was made in order to look very organic and somehow realistic.
Materials used includes: lycra (spandex), fake fur, real leather and feathers, metal and thermoplastics.