Evening dress and shoulder cape

Left: Boudicca / Evening dress shoulder cape / Black silk lace, fur, and leather / Spring 2007, Haute Couture, England / Lent by Boudicca
“Deep, deep – further than politics, than sex or infantile terrors . . . a plunge into the nuclear blackness. . . . Black runs all through the transcript: the recurring color black.”
— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

Right: Boudicca / Star Wars dress with removable wire shoulder / Black Swiss cotton Guipure, silk net and wire / Fabric provided by Biscoff-Textil, St. Gallen / 2002, Still collection, England / Lent by Boudicca
“There is poetry in the dark frame around things,” says Brian Kirkby of Boudicca.