Your Fantasy Costume

L´atelier des elfes is  a lovely french site that features a collection of the most gorgeous pieces for your elvish characterization.  From head circlets and crowns to brooches and belts, it features a collection of accesories that would add the final touch  of your lotr crown. In fact it has accurate replicas of Celeborn’s silver-plated belt and Galadriel’s crown among other lovely items inspired in elves and fairies and some even with an oriental motif. Items are a bit pricy but certainly exclusive. I particularly loved also the earrings that extends over the cheeks.

As I always say, one image values more than a thousand words and you’ll see these are impressive!!!

The next link has to be one of the most amazing fantasy costuming sites in the internet.  Alley Cat Scratch costume is a mega data base of movie costume documentations, studying and research in great detail from famous movies gowns models and designers, providing write-ups and will help you to create your own replica.

If you’re intending to dress like ANY of the characters from The lord of the rings movie, or inspired by Tolkien works. We want you to recommend you to visit Alley. They’ve studied about the costumes from fabric to patterns to metalwork. From hobbits to elves, covering not only the gowns and garments, but also cloaks,  headresses, wigs, leather-work, shoes, belts and even make up tutorials to make you look a lotr character. They have a community to get feedback, keep you up to date with costume exhibits in different areas, and also cover dresses patterns, sewing tips  and tutorials of other movies, fantasy and sci-fi and futuristic, but being their pivotal focus in lord of the rings movies.

A must see… for those ones good at crafts, and also for those ones not so but in need of ideas, from very easy to be done to things that are for those with good hands…! Bookmark for reference, it’s an awesome site.

Trisha Leigh Shufett, writer, sculptor and artist  has created INNER FAE CREATIONS, that highlights a lovely collection of  jewelry featuring unique  pendants that would please any  noble fae creature, using brass, copper and antiqued silver filigree and findings, which are then wrapped or used with Czech, German or vintage glass faceted stones. Colourful and catchy it will drive everyone’s sight to your necklace! Some are dyed  and aged with special inks that make them look even more mystical. Some with a clear art-noveau influence, others looking more tribal and ancient… gems, beads and iridescent materials build the magic turning some of the models alive as a starry night or the surface of an enchanted pont. Covering the seasons and several nature themes, there are  models devoted to every season, to the light, darkness, pixies, the sea… and other fantasies coming out from the heart of the artist to share with us.

This is another of my  favourite models called “the pixie portal”. I love dragonflies…!  I refer a lot to them in my music.

You cannot miss her faerie portal vials, constructed around a glass vial these are  stunning. They are handpainted and surrounded with the finest polymer clay, fired,  and sealed. I like these in particular becuase I’ve not found anything similar any other place and looks like a feeric carrier of secrets.

All of these pieces are made  upon request. All you need to do is to contact her from her website to get more details.

There are also some lovely bracelets and also rings  like the following

You can watch a rather complete gallery of models here in your fantasy costume. Trisha has a gallery running in this very site so you can see some of her loveliest creations in high resolution in this website.

Watch Inner fae gallery

I’ll be the proud owner of one of her pendants soon so I promise to be back with a picture!

Above: “Lady of the lake” model

Alassie Angelines is a spanish designer that specializes in historical garments. She created her own company called “El Costurero Real” delivering accurate replicas of medieval garments of a very high quality, using materials, dyes, and jewelry but adding also her own interpretation of the characters she recreate.   She’s won several prizes and is making her  own way working for several cinema projects. Her blog offers also tutorials and articles of overall interest for any lover of fantasy or historical garments… so if you are going to attend a ren fair, you´d better have a look at it (so far it’s only in spanish) but illustrated enough to be easily read with an online translator.

Above: Queen  Guinevere

Above: Sir Mordred

She has just launched a collection called “Leyendas artúricas” (Legends of King Arthur) that has its own particular website, a collection of garments and gowns for the main characters of the Arthurian Romance around this well known character, from King Arthur self,  Lancelot, Morgen le Fay, Lady of Shalott and more…

Above: me wearing one of the garments of the collection designed by Alassie Angelines… for me it’s been an honour  to be chosen as one of the celebrities that endorse garments from this lovely designer. I think this is “Morgen le Fay” model.

All garments are made upon demand and can be ordered in different kind of fabrics taking one to two months to be completed. If you are foreign make the questions or request in english, a brand new website in both languages is on the making.

Aside of the gowns and dresses, a sister-site offers all kind of complements from headpieces (designed by El Costurero Real),  belts, cloaks, necklaces,  jewelry and all sort of goodies and ready to wear. I particularly love the crowns, handmade and lovely for a lotr elvish gown, without over-using the “Galadriel” model found elsewhere. I’m dying to grab one of these for my performances.