Black Queen 1987

This was a costume I designed for the Hellfire Club's Black Queen back in 1987. Then-X-men-writer Chris Claremont had told me he had wanted to update the costumes of the Hellfire Club, and I reworked the Black Queen's outfit to focus on newer erogenous zones, specifically the undersides of her breasts, now known as underboobs. I was also very into fichus, those shawl like shoulder coverings that Christian Lacroix, my favorite designer at the time, favored. It worked with the Hellfire Club because the White Queen's outfit had a fur capelet, and already looked like a fichu.

I was also very fond of the armadillo-armour-like layering of the pleats. This was a thing I had been doing back then.