Early Access // The Whitby Gown

Wonderful gown! Love how your brain works....all the flowers are perfect. Both versions, day bodice and evening bodice are beautiful! By the way where are you filming? Is this a house museum?

Absolutely stunning gown! And now you have put in my mind the need for a poisonous flower hat. How have I managed to live so long without one!

This is amazing!! I constantly blown away by your creativity.

Gorgeous!!!! I don’t have words! Thank you for sharing!

I forgot to ask, what do you have hanging at your waist in the day bodice footage? It looks like some sort of a brooch with a tiny bell? It looks nice whatever it is!

I love the idea of a poisonous flower hat! I would wear one.

Absolutely stunning! I'd totally wear this as a wedding dress. Because of you I'm going to attempt drafting and flower making. I'm also wanting to making some carnivorous plants, so if you do that, that would be awesome because then I don't have to work it out 😆😆😆 Seriously though thank you for sharing your wonderful work 😊

This is so stunning, Bianca!!! I am in awe! How do you sit without crushing the flowers on the tails though?? And now I'm feeling the urge to try my hand at making silk flowers... 🙈

It's always a treat to see footage of you at that castle type place. What treasures you create! I couldn't get over your hand painted fan and what nice waves you had going on in your hair. Everything is so beautiful and you make it look effortless, though I know it only comes from hard work. Gee, with all of that poison ivy, "you're going to need an ocean of calamine lotion."😅 I also have to commend your twirl, which was timed perfectly to the flourish of piccolos!🥀👏🏻

This is incredible. I love flowers and for some reason never made the connection to put them onto clothes. Thank you for always being wildly inspiring Also I JUST bought a bunch of grab bags from Silk Baron to make a poison bouquet because of the last video 😅

It's sorta weird, but almost all the classic cottage garden plants are either food herbs, or more poisonous than you'd think you'd want to have near your home. Foxglove can slow your heart - Digitalis is the name of a heart medication made from them and the name of the plant's genus. Delphiniums/larkspur are your general purpose bad tasting poisonous garden plant that kills a lot of cattle when it grows in grazing land. Most of the morning glory family has seeds that can make you hallucinate. True lilies are in the onion family which means that they can cause kidney failure if you eat them (which is why we mostly cook garlic and onions, and why pets aren't supposed to eat them). Castor plants have beautiful giant red leaves but the beans can be made into ricin and the whole plant is "wear gloves" toxic -which is a level past where I plant stuff. I suggest looking into carnivorous plants for inspiration. Venus fly traps are the best known, but sundews and pitcher plants come in striking colors and textures. Especially look at the flowers of carnivorous plants. The flowers are less obvious than the fancy leaves, but they look a little like a tiny orchid or violet on a long tall stalk high above the danger so the insects that pollinate them aren't trapped.

There are not enough words for how incredibly stunning this gown is! Well done!

Simply stunning. I can see why it’s your favorite.Your attention to detail and evidently infinite patience never cease to amaze me.

‘Don’t forget the deadly Datura (aka The Devils Trumpet!)

This ensemble is so beautiful! I think it’s my favorite project of yours ( although I’m very partial to historical silhouettes!)

Are you communing with nature at Cheeseman Park (full of dead people)? It’s a beautiful project!! I’d dance with you for sure at a ball, even if I just got myself poisoned for stepping on your feet :) As for more flowers to try… how about a corpse flower? I had to make a baby pink flower for a quilt for some I didn’t like. So I made a corpse flower. The shape and color are quite suggestive….

Gorgeous!! My fingers hurt watching all that detail work. In re poisonous flowers and plants, some other lookers that are not great for the human body: Lily of the valley, monkshood (aka wolfsbane, which is a super-metal alternative name), wild parsnip (looks like queen Anne's lace), oh, and, Doll's Eyes! Oh and you could contemplate carnivorous plants, too: Jack in the pulpit is gorgeous and terrifying! And its just such a wild evolutionary divergence! Can you tell one of my seasons of insomnia was spent learning about gardening?! Okay, shutting up now. Well done making yet another dreamy dress, Bianca! 🙂

As Lady Gaga once famously said: talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show-stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique! You killed it! 🖤🖤🖤

Again … there’s nothing I can say that hasn’t already been said. Simply a stunning, beautiful, breathtaking piece of wearable art. I would LOVE to see it actually worn. Fingers crossed that you can find your dream home and host your own Halloween Extravaganza! What I CAN say is … 1) maybe your fascination with all things ‘bugs’ is actually your subconscious attempt to overcome your fear of them?? And, 2) I’ve had cats who absolutely respected the ‘boundaries’ of my furniture (not to mention my skin) but others who simply do not, and being a human who LOVES my animals, I couldn’t part with them, nor ask them to part with their fingers so, to THAT, I say … Claw Caps … a god send if ever there was one!

And just another piece of art 😍

Beautiful.

Breathtaking!

It's stunning 😍