As promised, after sharing our usual daytime photos to document all the different ways it can be worn, the seamlines, and details, etc, I really want to take some photos of my recent Wolfkiller Cloak at nighttime, too. I mean, it’s a coat inspired by a vampire AND it’s nearly Halloween, so what better way to capture the vibes than to do a photoshoot in a local graveyard??
Luckily, I’ve got friends who were so keen they were fighting over who would help me take these, and I’m so chuffed with how they turned out! Big thanks to my friend Ann who travelled across London to not only take these photos, but attempt to art direct my face journeys AND do my eye makeup!
This post is almost entirely photos – please refer to this post for all the fabric, pattern, and inspiration, and to this post for the construction details and daytime photos.
The only other updates I have on the previous posts are:
1. I’ll be replacing the hooks on the front opening of the coat with tiny carabiners because the hooks just do not stay in place, and it really needs something that locks onto the thread bars. The ones around the neck are doing the job perfectly though!
2. The costume designer for the show commented on my Instagram to say she loves my cloak!! And then to add that they indeed tried to line the entire cloak in fur (as is described in the book) but that it was too heavy for the actor to wear!? This is new knowledge, and is so cool that they tried to be book-accurate! (Frankly, I’m overjoyed it didn’t work because that faux wolf fur was £60/m and lining the full thing would’ve bankrupted me!)
And of course I couldn’t help but pose with the book that inspired all of this, 30 years after I first read it! It doesn’t hurt that my hardback edition has a very pretty art deco-inspired cover, either…
So what do you think? Do you prefer the daylight photos for sewing details, or the nighttime ones for the atomspheric vibes?
