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Solaced: 101 True Stories About Corsets, Well-Being, and Hope

Lucy Williams

Lucy Williams, of Lucy's Corsetry, has dedicated the last 15+ years of her life to researching and expanding the knowledge surrounding the effects, both physical and psychological, of wearing corsets and their therapeutic potential. This book busts long-held myths about corset wearing, and highlights the life-altering effect a good corset can have. Our proprietress, Autumn, is also featured in this book!

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Burlesque & the Art of the Teese/Fetish & the Art of the Teese

Dita Von Teese & Bronwyn Garrity

Dita Von Teese is a longstanding collaborator of Dark Garden: we're honored to have made many of her corsets, including one worn on the cover of Playboy in 2002.

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The Modern Corset Renaissance (Digital Exhibition Catalogue)

The Underpinnings Museum

A Pop Antique corset, collaborated on with five other corsetieres, graces the cover of this exhibition catalogue! A black-and-red corset created by Autumn Adamme for Cathie Jung was also featured in The Underpinnings Museum's "The Modern Corset Renaissance" digital exhibition.

The Modern Corset Renaissance: Chapter 4: Corsets As Body Modification

The Modern Corset Renaissance: Chapter 7: The Corseted Bride

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Poison or Protect

Gail Carriger

The cover of this novella by friend of Dark Garden Gail Carriger features a photograph of Autumn Adamme wearing a bespoke Aziza with straps.

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Romancing the Werewolf

Gail Carriger

The cover of this novella by friend of Dark Garden Gail Carriger features a photograph of two men wearing Dark Garden — each in a bespoke Beau Brummell tailored corset.

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Fashion & Fetishism: Corsets, Tightlacing, and other forms of Body Sculpture

David Kunzle

A bespoke Amazon corset is featured on the cover of the 2006 paperback edition of Fashion & Fetishism. Angela Carter herself praised this study of fashion and sex!

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Fetish Fashion: Undressing the Corset

Larry Utley

A bespoke Amazon corset is featured on the cover of Fetish Fashion — not to mention that Autumn Adamme, the founder of Dark Garden, was invited to write the introduction to this book of photography.

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The Corset: A Cultural History

Valerie Steele

Dark Garden makes an appearance in this book on fashion and cultural history, both in name and in image. Valerie Steele is a well-respected fashion historian, and it was an honor to be included!

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