Once in a while, you get really lucky, and get a great client, with great vision, and a great product that you yourself are happy to use because it happens to kick ass on several levels, and that client just happens to dig what you do for yourself when you're expressing your methodology and your manifesto through design, and they let you do your thing so you can totally cut loose with the work.

That's an ideal situation. This was my ideal job. I got very lucky. (I'm still very lucky, as the work for Villainess is ongoing for the moment, and the opportunity to continue producing variations on the theme we've established is really exciting.)

The theme in question was dubbed about a year ago when (Brooke and I) first started discussing her concept:

"Victorian with teeth."

Well, the teeth didn't exactly work out with the aesthetic, given that a toilette rarely falls in line with dentistry... But thorns and leather sure did. (That recurring floral motif? Yeah, that's tooled leather.)