This mix of good, bad, naughty, and nice is guaranteed to spice up any wardrobe. Also meet three other Faerieworlds designers in the Summer 2010 article Fashionista Faeries.
Story and Photos by Victoria Davila
Every summer people’s inner children come out to play dress up on Mount Pisgah for the annual Faerieworlds Summer Celebration where angelic faerie wings, sparkle skirts, patterned pants, and feel good fabrics exemplify young imaginations. Whether you come dressed for festival success or ready to build your otherworldly wardrobe the designers of the faerie realm have styles for all creative creatures.

Crea Designs

Basic style: Crea Designs provides a classic alternative clothing line of blacks, browns, greens, and rustic reds that are reminiscent of past and present fashions. Unique medieval cuts meet pilgrim simplicity in durable but delicately designed clothing.
Designer: Leviah, who declined to give her last name, is a Faerieworlds newbie taking her art to the festival circuit for the first time this year. After vending at some Celtic fairs Leviah thought the Eugene celebration of fae folk would be just up her alley. With an art degree in sculpture, thirty-three year old Leviah says her work is more than clothing but a functional art. “[I’m inspired] by something from the conscious creative flow,” she says struggling for words to describe her work. “Artists create art and other people talk about it.”
Inspiration: Most of Crea Designs are produced from hemp, with the exception of a few linen and silk items. Although working in a consumer industry, Leviah wants to do her best to create an art that has purpose and takes fewer resources to produce. “Hemp is a weed and it grows with barely any water and it doesn’t need pesticides like cotton,” she says. “It’s not certified organic but it’s just more environmental, naturally.”

Dark Fusion Boutique

Basic style: Brimming with beautiful garments, the Dark Fusion Boutique booth offers temptation in fashion form for good and bad faeries alike. Tribal belly dance, goddess gear, fetish fashion, cabaret clothing, and steam punk style fuse together in sultry shades with lace, fur, silk, and cotton creating a line that stands out from the crowd. With regular customers of singers, aerial artists, belly dancers, and circus folk Dark Fusion Boutique excels in providing what the designer simply calls “festival clothes.”
Designer: Thirty-six year old Lucretia*Renée launched Dark Fusion Boutique in Portland, Oregon, in 2007 and arrived at Faerieworlds last year out of an act of, as she calls it, “synchronicity.” Renée was persuaded by her friends to apply for the event, but was convinced it was kismet when the creators sought her out to vend a booth in exchange for clothing, a common trade for the community centered Faerieworlds Celebration.
Inspiration: “It’s all pretty magical really. It’s all festival gear. It’s goddess gear,” Lucretia says of her pretty but practical-to-wear fashions. Originally, it was Renée’s own fire and belly dancing that created the need for personalized clothing that drove her to delve deeper into her clothing designs. “It’s stuff that brings out your inner child and your inner happiness and love. Just fun playful clothes really,” Renée says.

Art of Wings

Basic style: “Most of [my wings] are normal nylon and wire. But then I have ones that I make out of fake branches and feathers,” says designer Meghann Frickberg. “These one look like porcupine,” she says pointing to the brown and white pointed pieces attached at her back, “but they’re just fake grass from the floral department.” Wooden branches, golden feathers, and molded wires all make pieces in this collection of wings that is the perfect cherry-on-top addition to any outfit.
Designer: Twenty-nine year old Frickberg is a veteran of the Eugene festival who has been interested in faeries for as long as she can remember: “As a kid I was constantly in the woods and really that is what got me into faeries,” she says. “It’s a magical place and you just feel like the faeries are there.”
Inspiration: Taking cues from everything around her, Frickberg brings whatever items she can into her wings and feathered art. Faerieworlds itself is also motivates new designs. “It’s inspiring,” she says. “You get to see all these interesting costumes that people put together and outfits and stuff you’ve never seen before. Everyone’s imagination is amazing.”

Learn what these fashionable faeries listened to at the festival in The Music of the Fae.

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The Fusion of Faerie Fashion