Inspirations

Goddess clothes are designed by Lies De Peuter
This is her vision on designing clothes and dressing people:

 

Clothes can empower people

Making clothes and dressing people is an act of transformation.
I would like to compare this to acting. The minute the actor puts on his costume, walks onstage and starts to perform, he becomes a different person. In the same way we transform ourselves when we put on our clothes in the morning.
Putting on powerful garments like the Goddess clothes, can make people feel different about themselves. Choosing the right dress for the day is an act of empowerment. Goddess clothes certainly help to create an image of powerful well-being.

The clothes are made of authentic designs, strong fabrics and dyed in natural earth colours. The main objective is to make beautiful clothes for women next to a small range for men. Goddess clothes do not follow fashion trends, but are a trend in their own. The art of the design, the choice of fabric and colour and the production process add to a visually very recognisable garment. Goddess clothes stand out in the perception of the beholder, because of their uniqueness.

 

Women Warriors

"A woman has to think like a man, behave like a lady, look like a young girl and work like a horse!"

This quote may seem extreme, but even in the 21st Century women in all cultures have to multitask. They combine children with jobs, are in charge of households, finances and businesses and function as wives, mothers, lovers…
You have to be a woman warrior indeed, to face up to all of these stressful demands. That’s why I like to make clothes that give my female clients a feeling of being in control of their own lives. They make their choices, they hold their heads up high and don’t submit to social pressures.
I, myself have been inspired by the ancient image of the Triple Goddess, that has withstand the impact of time and stands stronger than ever.

 

Women Warriors

The image of the devine feminine as a tripple deity has been the biggest inspiration for the Goddess clothes - collection.

  • The Maiden: a young woman who is a warrior for herself, clarity of mind, is set on her goals in life, a fighter
  • The Mother: a creator of life, a protector of all life forms
  • The Matriarch: a wise woman, a transformator between this world and others, a shaman, she who walks between the worlds

This image of the Tripple Goddess has been clearly documented by Marija Gimbutas inThe language of the Goddessand by the different groups of new witchcraft movements like the Goddess Reclaiming Movement of Starhawk and others. Joseph Cambell, scientist in comparative mythology, has opened the road for links to other cultures where the divine feminine is still a powerful image.

 

Tribal Art

Tribal art in general is another mark of the Goddess clothes collection. The use of prime symbols like spirals, concentric circles, parallel lines, dots, curls and old alphabets like Runes are constant recurring themes in the collection.
Also the use of earth colours is an essential item. Therefore Goddess clothes uses the four pigments that have always been central in primitive art: black, white, yellow ochre and red earth. These essential colours refer to the four elements and the four human races.

 

Her Story

"Goddess" started off as a clothing label in 1993 as spin-off from “Wovoka”, a group of performers who's intention was to bring awareness about life giving forces via dance rituals.

The name “Wovoka” was the name of a north-american indian medicine man who introduced the “ghost dance”. He had visions in which he saw that by dancing trance-dances the world could be healed. The white man feld so threatened by these rituals that they massacred full tribes in the battle of “Wounded knee”. This finally lead to a great shame of the white nation, that by killing peaceful people they could not wipe out their belief in mother nature.
The belief that every plant, rock, animal and human has a soul. That everything is alive.

The Great Earth Goddess as Marja Gimbutas.
The archealogist from Lituania shows her many aspects as a life-giver and transformer.
She is beautifully described in the following text
written by Erik Willems, founder of Wovoka and co-creator of many Goddess designs
 

  • I am earth,moon and sea
    I am a virgin,a woman and a witch
    I rule life and death
    Cherish the sleeping souls at my breast
    I am the big snake,sleep
    Throw off my skin,transform

    I am the phoenix
    bird,burn to ash
    And fly young and strong to my lover,the sun
    I am the protector of the eternal
    Flowing,roaring,source of life
    Out of my womb swim birds,plants,rocks,humans children,animals
    While I eat them

    I am the law of everlasting life
    Through me and in me everything returns to be reborn
    Dancing in spirals
    Sparkling in colours
    I am the carrier of the greatest mystery
    The eternal self-renewing life
    I am the seed in the frozen earth
    Ready to develop my powers again
    When the first sunrays kiss me
    I am the symbol of all lifeshapes in nature
    My power,my soul is equal in every
    River,bird,cloud,fish,snake,human,plant
    Sea,rock,horse,hill,flower..

    I am the protector of the paradise peopleI will make Atlantis rise from the seaI do not demand sacrifices or blood
    But shiver from joy
    When I taste the colours of your love

    I live in the depths of the earth
    Rule the cycles of the moon

    I give birth to new life,harvest death
    I am the mistress of wild things
    I am a gluttonous paramour
    Proud of my breasts,buttocks,belly and sensual lips

    I want to dance with my lover
    Around the fire at full moon
    He is the king deer,the minotaur,Cernunnos
    Horned god,

    cherish me
    Satisfy my lust
    Protect my children
    I am the owl
    Foreshadow of death
    I am the sap from the tree of lifeI am the vulture,eating dead bodies
    I am the moisture in the womb of the pregnant woman
    I am the abyss,the labyrinth

    I am the balance between destruction and creation
    I was sunken for thousands of years
    In your subconciousness
    I was believed to be dead
    Persecuted,burned as a witch
    I had to hide in the darkest woods
    And the deepest caves
    To bundle my powers again
    Now the hated sterile gods are dead

    My time has come

    I am the great goddess
 

Clothes can empower people

Making clothes and dressing people is an act of transformation.
I would like to compare this to acting. The minute the actor puts on his costume, walks onstage and starts to perform, he becomes a different person. In the same way we transform ourselves when we put on our clothes in the morning.
Putting on powerful garments like the Goddess clothes, can make people feel different about themselves. Choosing the right dress for the day is an act of empowerment. Goddess clothes certainly help to create an image of powerful well-being.

The clothes are made of authentic designs, strong fabrics and dyed in natural earth colours. The main objective is to make beautiful clothes for women next to a small range for men. Goddess clothes do not follow fashion trends, but are a trend in their own. The art of the design, the choice of fabric and colour and the production process add to a visually very recognisable garment. Goddess clothes stand out in the perception of the beholder, because of their uniqueness.