“The demand for the dresses just keeps growing and we are frantically running to keep up with the expansion of the brand,” she says. “Our strategy is to remain authentic and real and to work at my own pace,” she says.
My dresses feel like ghost-like memories and fever-dreams that re-connect me to the world. Be the first to hear about exclusive news, music and events from Nick Cave. Kate Moss wears the Mini Mayhem dress from the latest collection by The Vampire's Wife, out this week. All praise Cave’s understanding of what women really want. Susie Cave has credited her rock star husband Nick Cave for helping her cope with the loss of their son Arthur. He is based in Sydney. The Vampire’s Wife does not hold runway shows and Cave simply releases new collections when they are ready – her latest came out this week.
Well the night was deep and the night was dark And I was at the old dance-hall on the edge of town Some big ceremony was going down Dancers writhed and squirmed and then, Came apart and then writhed again Like squirming flies on a pin In the heat and in the din Yes, in the heat and in the din I fell to thinking about the brand new wife of mad John Finn, Well, midnite came and a clock did strike And in she came, did John Finn’s wife With legs like scissors and butcher’s knives A tattooed breast and flaming eyes And a crimson carnation in her teeth Carving her way through the dance floor And I’m standing over by the bandstand Every eye gaping on John Finn’s wife Yeah, every eye gaping on John Finn’s wife, Now John Finn’s wife was something of a mystery In a town where to share a sworn secret was a solemn duty I had brass knuckles and a bolo knife Over near the bandstand with John Finn’s wife She got perfumed breasts and raven hair Sprinkled with wedding confettis And a gang of garrotters were all giving me stares Armed, as they were, with machetes And the night through the window was full of lights Winking and a-watching at John Finn’s wife Winking and a-watching at John Finn’s wife, Next came the cops, all out on the town But it don’t look like no trouble there As they head for the bar in their lumpy suits And I slip my hand between the thighs of John Finn’s wife And they seemed to yawn awake, her thighs It was a warm and very ferocious night The moon was full of blood and light And my eyes grew small and my eyes grew tight As I plotted in the ear of John Finn’s wife, Enter John Finn in his shrunken suit With his quick black eyes and black cheroot With his filed-down teeth and a hobnail boot And his fists full of pistols in his pockets Aiming at me and aiming at his wife The band fall silent fearing for their lives And with fear in my guts like tangled twine Cause all i got is brass knuckles and a bolo knife And mad John Finn’s wife is all And the three of us walk out of the hall, Now the night bore down upon us all You could hear the crickets in the thickets call And the guns did flare and the guns did bawl And I planted my bolo knife in the neck Of mad John Finn. We tend to head to LA – a very different kind of place.”. But Cave says she has no interest in such a move. Kylie Minogue wears The Vampire's Wife, pictured with Nick Cave at the Glastonbury Festival in June. To sit and dream and design a dress and to watch it grow into something is a source of great joy for me.”, She adds: “My dresses feel like ghost-like memories and fever-dreams that reconnect me to the world.”, In the wake of Arthur’s death, Susie, Nick and their surviving son, Earl, contemplated leaving Brighton. Follow updates here. Help using this website - Accessibility statement, Screen star Marion Cotillard turns her hand to jewellery design, Why Gai Waterhouse doesn't invest in the sharemarket, Romance in a perfume bottle, 100 years on, Threads of desire from country to couture, Why slogomania has overtaken logomania in fashion, It's Bezos versus Ambani in the battle for India's riches, Leaving home at last: travel within your region awaits, It won't be easy to kick your sugar habit, but it'll save your life, BMW adds heft to its bonkers-fast M8 coupé with a four-door variant, Why Norway means peak romance for this CEO, Fire, smoke and steam add ancient drama to new food venue, Italian inspiration meets Australian flavour in new liqueurs to love, Six things I learnt from trying 20 online courses, Rich Listers win with boards that can say no, Rich Lister Tony Haggarty offloads $26m of prime grazing country, Australia's cattle kings and queens on top of the world.
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In fact, what sets Cave’s work apart from other so-called “modest fashion” is how it accentuates the female form without showing bare skin. “The initial idea for The Vampire’s Wife was not ‘planned’ at all, beyond making some dresses for my friends,” she says. They have two children.
“He acts as a kind of beauty barometer. The cover image of Susie Bick (future wife of Nick Cave) was taken by photographer Bob Carlos Clarke at Kensal Green Cemetery, Harrow Road. “These are probably the most painful songs Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have ever recorded,” the British music website NME wrote, “but they’re also the most beautiful: it is a work of extraordinary, unsettling scope.”. “Rather than modesty, I would say the dresses have a kind of subversive mystery about them, a real provocative energy,” Cave says.
Susie Cave reflects on the runaway success of the brand she founded in 2014 “to make some dresses for my friends”.
Typically, a designer in her position would team up with a luxury fashion conglomerate or, at the very least, a deep-pocketed investor.
Follow the latest here. How Nick Cave’s wife captured hearts and minds with needle and thread. The Vampire’s Wife took its name from Nick Cave’s abandoned book project and offers an offbeat twist on retro glamour. But it is a town full of sadness for me and sometimes I need to get away.
The brand is the brainchild of English model Susie Cave, the wife of singer Nick Cave of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Looking for something to watch? “It is so beautiful – all that lovely late-afternoon coral-coloured light and the sparkling sea.
Cave founded the label almost on a whim, in 2014, naming it after a half-written novel by her husband.
“Ultimately, I need to love my work, and the way to do that is to stay intimately connected to the dresses and the designs by doing small production runs.”.
After the breakup of Nick Cave's former band The Birthday Party, Cave formed a new project with former band member Mick Harvey.Cave and Harvey were joined by a semi-fluid group of bandmates, initially including Einstürzende Neubauten member Blixa Bargeld on guitar, Hugo Race on guitar, and former Magazine member Barry Adamson on guitar, bass, and piano. Getty, Now, she says, “work is simply a matter of survival.
UK deaths are the highest since May; RBA to keep interest rates low for years; tourism bosses push for Queensland to open the border to Sydney. It has literally saved my life. For Cave, this approach is about more than creative fulfilment: in July 2015, just as The Vampire’s Wife was taking flight, her 15-year-old son Arthur died in a fall from a cliff in Brighton. “Brighton will always feel like home,” Cave explains. But the dresses were evidently special, and requests began pouring in. “If there is one thing I learnt from my experiences as a model it is how to make a woman feel beautiful,” she says. Dan F. Stapleton writes on style, travel and more. “My dresses may cover you up, but they make no secret of the beautiful female shape. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. (Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For. A favorite of Alaïa; lensed by Bourdin, Bailey, Newton, Meisel, and Knight; the dollish beauty on the cover of The Damned’s Phantasmagoria and The Best of Roxy Music; and, of course, wife to Nick Cave.The otherworldly Susie Cave (née Bick) has a CV that would put damn near anyone to shame.