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"You poor simple fools, thinking you could defeat me. Me? The mistress of all evil? Well here's your precious Princess!" Maleficent, The Sleeping Beauty (Disney)

My last collection of fantasy crowns and garments is now launched -I'm so proud of this whole project!

Crowns, corsets, jackets, accessories... everything a villain queen would want! All these pieces are now available in my Etsy shop.

I love creating lore around my launches. You can learn everything about why I just released the spooky Maleficarum collection in my most recent YouTube video.

🧛🏻‍♂️ Jaime G. Miguélez

👸🏻 Marta Pardo

📷 Luis Melero

📍Catedral de San Salvador, Oviedo (Spain)

#sleeping beauty #once upon a dream #maleficent #princess aurora #fairytale #costume design #corset maker #high fantasy #fantasy crowns #fantasy wedding #heroes and villains #disney villain #evil queen

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Preparing to launch my new 'Maleficarum' collection on Friday 29th March -tomorrow!!

I'm so excited about this new collection of pieces. I've spiraled out of the spring equals green and flowers theme toward a darker, spookier topic.

I'll be preparing a new YouTube video explaining more about it ❤️

In the meantime, you can enjoy this preview of the juicier pieces, and my Instagram posts related to this new launch.

Dropping tomorrow at 19:00 CET on my Etsy shop.

#malleus maleficarum #maleficent #disney villain #villain era #evil queen #spooky #queen of the dragons #fantasy costume #costume desing #dark fantasy

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"Are you sure That we are awake? It seems to me That yet we sleep, we dream." A Midsummer Night's Dream (W. Shakespeare)

And these hand embroidered stays are definitely that. A dream.

When exquisite materials, dedication and love for the craft unite, marvels happen.

Find more information about this stunning piece here.

#corsets and stays #corset maker #corsetry #fairycore #fantasy costume #fairytale #costume designer #fantasy couture #a midsummer night's dream #shakespeare

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No matter what you celebrate: may it be Yule, Sol Invictus, Christmas... Happy holidays!! 🥳

Shot taken for my Dracula's Brides Halloween collection 2023, featuring Verona.

Find the very last available ooak headpiece Azam here.

📷 Luis Melero

🦇 Marta Pardo

👑👗 M Pardo Couture

#vampire ball #dracula of bram stoker #draculas brides #happy holidays #happy new year #costume designer #goth bride

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Embracing the dark Christmas aesthetic!

Get the look:

👑 Ballet tiara Aubade

⚔️ Armor-like epaulettes Gigi

👗 Stays Eloise

Credits:

Model - Joy Vega

Photography - Alba Gesti

Crown and outfit - M Pardo Couture

#night court #dark christmas #whimsigoth #whimsical goth #goth fantasy #corset armor #etsy finds #etsyseller

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The Starks were right, Winter is coming!

It's so chill and moody now that it is hard to recall these warmer Autumn days.

These 18th century inspired stays remind me *a lot* of Belle (Beauty and the Beast). Perhaps it's the colour?

Anyway, living for these Outlander fairy core vibes.

📷🧚🏻‍♀️ Marta Pardo

👗👑 M Pardo Couture

📍 Alcalá de Henares (Spain)

Shop online on Etsy

#fairycore #autumnfairy #fallen leaves #ren faire #fantasy story #winter is coming #corset maker #corsets and stays #etsyfinds #beauty and the beast

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"All my life men like you have sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust." Brienne of Tarth, A Song of Ice and Fire (GRR Martin)

I've always loved the armored look, especially when combined with rich, sumptuous fabrics such as brocades, satins and velvets, like in this case.

I inspired these Joan shoulder armor and bracers in the European late medieval ones. I'm very much intrigued on how fantasy-looking would they be in gold finish!

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📷 Luis Melero

👸🏻 Marta Pardo

⚔️ M Pardo Couture

📍 Monte Naranco, Oviedo (Spain)

#brienne of tarth #game of thrones #late medieval #medieval armor #knightcore #female knight #medieval fantasy

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"October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces." Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (JK Rowling)

When my customers rock my pieces with their modifications...!

This was a customized Anyel elven circlet and it looks like made for a water creature. The sparkly beaded chains draped at the back were their requested customization. And now I want to include that as an option!

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#arwen evenstar #arwen undomiel #elven crown #galadriel #fantssy crown #bridal jewellery #m pardo couture #acotar #fairytale #tolkien #harry potter quotes #autumn vibes

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"If by my life or death I can protect you, I will." Aragorn, The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)

These Eloise pleather stays and these Anyel elven circlets just make the nicest match... Is elven knight core a thing yet?

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📷🧝🏻‍♀️ Marta Pardo

👗👑 M Pardo Couture

📍 Oviedo, Spain

#tauriel cosplay #costume designer #arwen evenstar #knightcore #fantasy armor #medieval armor #tolkien elves #fantasy romance #tiara maker #corsets and stays #women in armor

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If I could use these elven circlets and dresses as daily wear, I would. Modern life sometimes gets in the way to be my proper fantasy self.

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📷🧝🏻‍♀️ Marta Pardo

👗👑 M Pardo Couture

📍 Alcalá de Henares, Spain

#arwen undomiel #tlotr #lotr cosplay #elven circlet #elven crown #galadriel #lord of the rings #rings of power #tolkien elves #arwen evenstar #m pardo couture #costume desing #wire wrapped jewelry #handmade jewelry #etsyseller #fall for costume #falling leaves #autumn court #autumn vibes

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When I made these 18th century inspired Caroline stays in mustard yellow I had Belle (Beauty nd the Beast) in mind... Not an Autumn Fae!

But here we are, serving magical creatures for our joy in October.

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📷🧚🏻‍♀️ Marta Pardo

👗👑 M Pardo Couture

📍 Alcalá de Henares, Spain

#autumn court #fall for costume #fairy core #fallen leaves #autumn #october #18th century stays #beauty and the beast #corset maker

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"But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more." The Little Mermaid

I love to see how garments can change their appearance drastically depending on how you pair them. This starry bodysuit and pleather stays weren't meant to go together. Not to mention to be a part of an outfit with a tiara with multichrome crystals...

When I went shooting this look and found this fountain, it all tied up together and said "mermaid" undoubtedly to me.

📷🧜🏻‍♀️ Marta Pardo

👑👗 M Pardo Couture

📍 Campo San Francisco, Oviedo (Spain)

#little mermaid #mermaidcore #multichrome #costume design #corset maker #acotar #fairycore #fantasy costume

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"Alas, not me, lord!" she said. "Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle." Eowyn, The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)

Every time I go shooting in these places full of sunlight, of farm fields and of wild plain nature, I think of Rohan.

Though, that star dress is more of an elven gown than of a human...

Find every piece in this outfit in my Etsy shop: the tiara, the shoulder piece, the stays and the dress.

📷 Luis Melero

👑👗 M Pardo Couture

👸🏻 Marta Pardo

📍 Astorga, Spain

#eowyn of rohan #costume designer #fairytale #high lady feyre #night court #acotar #halloween #vampire ball #corset maker #m pardo couture #tolkien quotes #tolkien

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Henry: Hmm, first I am arrogant, and now I have no pride; however do I manage that?

Danielle: You have everything, and still the world holds no joy; and yet you insist on making fun of those who would see it for its possibilities.

Henry: How do you do it?

Danielle: Do what?

Henry: Go through each day with this kind of passion? Don't you find it exhausting?

Danielle: Only when I'm around you.

(Ever After, 1998)

👑👗 M Pardo Couture

👸🏻 Marta Pardo

📷 Marta Pardo

📍 Oviedo (Spain)

#danielle de barbarac #ever after #queen astraea #medieval fantasy #pre raphaelite #acotar #costume designer #fantasy costume #m pardo couture #fairytale #corset maker

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"The show must go on, Satine. We're creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love." Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)

The last shall be first, they say... and somehow that is what happened with this Verona crown I made for my collection of one-of-a-kind headpieces. Named Dracula's Brides (I've always been obsessed with the concept of dark, tormented beings of the night, and all things fantastic and otherworldly attract me like flies are to light), I created a small series of unique crowns, in which this Verona -shamelessly inspired by Satine's Indian costume in Moulin Rouge film- came last.

This Dracula's Brides collection is also inspired in Art Nouveau, especially Alphonse Mucha's illustrations, among other characters and concepts. And Verona made it through into the collection sleekly.

You'll find more information about this crown in my Etsy shop -and watch clips of the making in my Instagram.

📷 Luis Melero

👑👗 M Pardo Couture

🧛🏻‍♀️ Marta Pardo

📍 Oviedo, Spain

#satine moulin rouge #dracula of bram stoker #draculas brides #crowns #alphonse mucha #verona #vampire ball #vampire queen #halloween #mata hari #m pardo couture #costume designer #tiara maker #goth fantasy

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Launching today!!

Check these crowns out in my Etsy shop.

#alphonse mucha #art nouveau #mata hari #vampire queen #vampire ball #halloween #queen of the damned #costume designer #handmade jewelry #moulin rouge #m pardo couture #satine moulin rouge

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"I've travelled oceans of time to find you." Dracula, Dracula of Bram Stoker (Francis Ford Coppola)

I've always been fascinated by vampires and other creatures of the night. And being this film one of my favourites of the genre, I made this tunic-like dress a few years ago getting inspiration from the costume that the blonde bride of Dracula wears when tempting Jonathan.

This year, I went a step further and took this film as theme for the new collection of crowns I'll be listing on my online shop on Etsy August 4th for this year's Halloween. Other sources of inspiration have been pre-Raphaelite art, Art Nouveau's iconic Mucha illustrations, and La Belle Époque dramatism.

Keep your eyes peeled for more of these vampire ladies popping up on my feed! 🦇

📷 Luis Melero

🧛🏻‍♀️ Marta Pardo

👑👗 M Pardo Couture

📍 Campo de San Francisco, Oviedo (Spain)

#dracula #dracula of bram stoker #vampire ball #draculas brides #alphonse mucha #art nouveau #dark fantasy #vampire queen #mata hari #handmade jewelry