Once more for Christmas! Girl No. 6 – The Vampire's Wife

The Vampire’s Wife Girl t-shirts are now a global phenomena, selling out in a heartbeat. Overnight, the Girls were seen in the skate parks of L.A., the streets of New York and on the red carpets of London. The Girl t-shirts became British Vogue’s most coveted article of street wear. Christmas was fast approaching and we thought we would do a special limited edition t-shirt for that merry time of year. We wrote to artist-recluse Karen Constance and pleaded with her to design one more t-shirt, in the spirit of Christmas.

She sent back Girl No. 6

Dressed in blood red velvet and haloed in blue, Girl No. 6 stares out at us with her bewitching green eyes. She holds in her hand the symbol at the very heart of The Vampire’s Wife crest, the yellow hero-bird that travels to the darkened place and returns with the gift of enlightenment and love. The Vampire Girl hands us the gleaming bird-spirit as a gift and as a promise. This is the Christmas message. On each side of The Vampire’s Wife banner, two lambs cavort, symbols of purity and innocence, but, really, how pure and innocent is this t-shirt?!

Screen printer extraordinaire Patrick Wells has hand-printed each t-shirt using an extended colour carousel that lends a luminous vibrancy to Karen’s creation. The high-quality hand-printed t-shirt runs as a limited edition of 250 pieces, each numbered and presented in a beautiful, award-winning gift box, designed by Tom Hingston.

Girl No.6

AVAILABLE FROM THEVAMPIRESWIFE.COM
THURSDAY 29TH NOVEMBER
4PM GMT

THE CARNIVAL IS OVER

I have just a simple song for you all from 1967, all the way from Australia (where my husband is), by The Seekers. I love this song, melancholy but so stirring, and Judith Durham, dressed in what looks like something from the archives of The Vampire’s Wife, is so touching. It is a song full of tears about the end of things and love’s enduring presence. We adore this song here at The Vampire’s Wife.

TIME AFTER TIME, LITTLE JIMMY SCOTT

Look at this heart-breaking piece of film of Little Jimmy Scott singing Time After Time and giving his thoughts on what a song is meant to be. He is a vast talent and a beautiful man; we met him at my husband’s Meltdown Festival in London in 1999.

TO DIE BY YOUR SIDE

I heard this wonderful version of The Smiths classic song "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" by the brilliantly ebullient Dum Dum Girls on the DJ Lonny’s amazing Cover to Cover on Radio Lewes this week. What a great show! What a superb song! What a joyful cover! ‘To die by your side is pleasure and a privilege’ indeed!