The Vampire's Wife closes down after a decade: Celebrity-favourite dress brand founded by Nick Cave's model wife Susie and beloved by Princess of Wales ceases trading 'with immediate effect' after market 'upheaval'

The Vampire's Wife has announced it has ceased trading 'with contiguous effect' aft a decennary successful business. 

The label, beloved by celebrities and royalty alike, announced contiguous that it has 'sadly made the determination to cease trading with contiguous effect' pursuing an 'upheaval successful the wholesale market'. 

Heartbroken fans volition nevertheless beryllium fixed 1 last accidental to acquisition items from the brand, with a carnal merchantability taking spot this Friday, Saturday and Sunday astatine the Music Room successful Mayfair.

The marque was founded successful 2014 by Susie Cave – the 80s it-girl and woman of singer Nick Cave – who broke the quality connected societal media, saying with 'great sadness' that aft 10 years of concern 'it is clip for maine to accidental goodbye.'

Susie's glitzy dresses are regularly worn by the likes of Kate and Princess Beatrice, arsenic good arsenic personage royalty specified arsenic Cate Blanchett, Sienna Miller and Kylie Minogue.

The shocking quality was announced connected The Vampire's Wife website today. The connection read: Despite a play of affirmative maturation and sales, the upheaval successful the wholesale marketplace has had melodramatic implications for the brand.

'There volition beryllium a final, carnal sale, allowing fans of the marque 1 past accidental to bargain connected the 24th, 25th and 26th of May astatine the Music Room, Mayfair, London, W1J 5KF. 

'The Vampire's Wife would similar to explicit their heartfelt acknowledgment to each clients, partners and those who person worn the marque these past 10 years. Your enactment has been invaluable and we are profoundly grateful.'

The announcement comes implicit a twelvemonth aft the institution revealed it was facing liquidation implicit an unpaid taxation bill.

The Vampire's Wife had been handed a 'winding-up petition', which would let the courts to adjacent the steadfast for failing to settee its outstanding debts. 

The company's indebtedness was understood to person grown during the pandemic erstwhile shoppers saved currency and were little apt to splash retired connected sparkly dresses and going-out skirts. 

The steadfast said the petition came 'without anterior warning' and that HMRC had rejected requests to put a outgo program to repay the outstanding debt. 

The Vampire's Wife was acceptable up by Susie and her person Alex Adamson successful 2014, a twelvemonth before the couple's 15-year-old lad Arthur died successful July 2015.

After the horrendous calamity Susie told her hubby 'everything is over', believing she was incapable to transportation connected with her marque aft becoming bedridden with grief.

Losing her lad near Susie utterly bereft. In 2018, she told the Mail: 'I conflict with definite things that person happened successful my beingness and sometimes tin beryllium successful rather a acheronian place.

'I get mislaid erstwhile I'm designing. Time conscionable flies by. It's really an implicit gift, due to the fact that the worst happening happened to me. I transmission immoderate affirmative vigor I tin into creating clothes.'

The household recovered themselves wading done a 'treacle of grief' (to usage Nick's eloquent expression), incapable to comprehend the enormity of the loss. 

'He was a bright, shiny, funny, analyzable lad and we loved him deeply,' they said astatine the time.

Understandably, the manner marque fell by the wayside successful the aftermath of her son's death. 'The week aft Arthur died, I was successful bed,' she explains. 'I said: 'Nick, I can't bash this. The Vampire's Wife is over. Everything is over.' '

Unable to work, permission the location oregon look seeing anyone, Susie retreated. Photographs from Arthur's inquest amusement her hiding her look down a curtain of raven-black hair, shoulders shuddering arsenic she clung to Nick for support.

And then, 3 months later, came a telephone call. 'I got a telephone from Daisy Lowe — the exemplary girl of Pearl Lowe and a household person — saying she needed a formal for an awards ceremonial and would I marque 1 for her?

'So I dragged myself into the bureau to find the reddish fabric. And she wore it. And I saw it photographed. That was benignant of a breakthrough. 

'From past connected I went to enactment each day.

'Having thing to bash which was physically demanding enabled maine temporarily not to deliberation of thing else.'

It was past orders started flooded successful from high-profile clients: exemplary Alexa Chung; histrion Elisabeth Moss; vocalist Florence Welch.

Styles — ranging from £970 velvet dresses to £1,595 glittery enactment frocks — started selling out. Little by little, Susie stitched herself backmost together.

'When Arthur died, I didn't deliberation I could transportation on,' she said. 'When you suffer a child, thing volition instrumentality distant the pain, not ever. 

'But I did realise if I could absorption connected thing extracurricular of what had happened, that if I could abstracted myself someway from it all, adjacent for a fewer seconds, and commencement creating things successful those moments of escapism, past that mightiness beryllium an important thing.' 

The collection, called Vampire's House, ranges from a £135 silk pouch to the £595 jewellery box. 

Three guests wore Vampire’s Wife garments astatine Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s 2018 wedding, and the statement is often spotted astatine reddish carpet events.

The Princess of Wales archetypal stepped retired successful The Vampire's Wife successful 2021, erstwhile she donned a £1,595 emerald gown arsenic she joined Prince William for an evening reception astatine the Guinness Storehouse successful Dublin.

The ensemble intimately resembled the greenish formal by the aforesaid decorator that Princess Beatrice wore to Ellie Goulding's wedding the erstwhile autumn.

Mother-of-one Beatrice wore a £1,695 'The Veneration' tiered silk-blend lamé formal by The Vampire's Wife to the singer's nuptials astatine York Minster Cathedral.

Princess Kate, 41, besides opted for a metallic gown from the marque successful pinkish during her royal circuit of the Caribbean successful 2021 with the Prince of Wales, during a reception held by the politician of Belize.

As much and much celebrities began stepping retired successful the brand's gowns, including Rachel Weisz, Hilary Duff and Meena Harris, niece of US Vice President Kamala Harris, it developed a cult pursuing among A-Listers.