Chloe & Alex: A Moody Gothic Wedding in Mavka

Chloe found Mavka… In Slavic folklore, Mavka is a woodland spirit: mysterious, beautiful and belonging to the wild. Our Mavka takes her inspiration from that untamed spirit, with metres and metres of black chiffon falling into layers of jagged, lace-edged points. Rather than creating one solid skirt, those individual layers move independently, giving the dress an almost wild quality of its own; soft and ethereal when still, dramatic and unpredictable when caught by the wind. The bodice continues those lines with a deep V neckline and long, draping jagged sleeves.

But Mavka's story has always been about more than wildness. When we created her Deity Card, we wrote that Mavka reminds us that love is not something to be controlled, but something to be nurtured and allowed to grow.