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Permission to Scream
January 2026
January doesn’t politely knock — it kicks the door off the hinges.
The Permission to Scream issue is an exploration of pressure, desire, sensuality, grief, rage and release, tracing the moments where restraint fractures and something more raw and authentic breaks through.
Across fashion, music, kink, travel, wellness and mental health, this issue spotlights women who refuse silent suffering in favour of expression that is embodied and alive.
This is not catharsis as spectacle, but as survival, as transformation.
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Feature Articles
Valentine’s Day Gifts for Your Goth Girlfriend That Say “I’ve Crossed Oceans of Time to Find You”
A Valoween gift guide for 1800th-century-blood-oath love
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
Some love … rare love … feels familiar from the first moment.
It arrives marked by distance, struggle, patience and devotion that feels as if its survived lifetimes of waiting by the window, candle flickering.
This Valentine’s Day gift guide is inspired by the kind of romance that travels by moonlight, where longing and desire pangs like a hunger in the soul.
Think heirloom treasures, gestures selected deliberately, gifts that feel sought after rather than simply purchased; the perfect offering suggest that you would follow her across time, space and thresholds if she asked.
This is how your eternal devotion leaves a trace.
Garments with a Pulse: A Conversation with Beloved Fashion Designer, Evan Clayton
An exploration of early inspiration, gothic influences and his latest collection
By: Amanda Albert
Fashion, at its highest level, is wearable sculpture. It is an art form designed to move the body and the mind, in tandem.
Because it resists practicality, it is often misunderstood as excessive, theatrical or, frankly, weird. What it truly resists is complacency.
Evan’s work belongs to this lineage of fashion as cultural intervention. Each collection is built as an emotional architecture rather than a seasonal offering designed to dress trips to the grocery store.
His garments carry narrative, emotion, defiance and devotion with weight meant to endure. On the runway, the story each collection carries unfolds as performance art.
In an era that largely flattens fashion into trend cycles, Evan insists on depth. He designs not to decorate the body, but to transform how we experience it.
We had the pleasure of sitting down with Evan to discuss his latest collection, what came before and what we can expect next.
The Discipline of Dress: Tracing Fetish Fashion Through Couture Collections
Designer inspo, market shopping guide and functional (but discreet) fetish adornments
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
Fetish fashion did not begin on the runway, but it has also never stayed confined to the bedroom.
Long before latex and harnesses became street-style shorthand, designers were borrowing the visual language of kink to challenge how clothing relates to power.
What began as taboo iconography evolved into a design vocabulary that speaks fluently in silhouette, material and intention.
Today, fetish fashion moves easily between couture ateliers, city sidewalks, quiet luxury wardrobes and mass-produced fast-fashion brands, no longer requiring shock value to feel transgressive.
How to Host a Gothic High Tea at Home
A Victorian-inspired winter ritual for dark romantics on snowbound afternoons
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
January invites a slow, sacred relationship with time.
The month encourages warmth, ritual and intention, whether gathered indoors or framed by falling snow.
The ceremony of high tea offers a refined way to mark the season, whether your alone with a book or seeking sanctuary from the weather with friends.
High tea, as we know it today, emerged a tradition in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era as both a snack between lunch and dinner and an opportunity to entertain. The ritual balanced elegance with practicality, serving structured tiers of delicious treats alongside conversation, quality time and ambiance.
In gothic households, the ritual of high tea invites opportunity to brew up a witchy concoction, enjoy storied heirlooms or beloved antiques, curate a themed menu or wear en elegant outfit; the possibilities are endless.
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