Ava Hannon

Scáth Na Ndú is a deeply personal collection shaped by my upbringing and spiritual beliefs. Rooted in Celtic paganism, it weaves together the raw energy of metal culture and the layered identity of alternative subcultures.

Born in London yet always searching for peace in nature through my pagan path, I wanted this collection to push the boundaries between the modern and ancestral. Charles Fréger’s Wilder Mann served as a key starting point, his documentation of ritual dress across Western and Eastern Europe inspired me to explore animalistic silhouettes.

I merged these primal shapes with the aesthetics of goth, metal, and leather subcultures to highlight a natural convergence, paganism and metal culture often share a collective spirit rooted in ritual, rebellion, and identity.

Materials such as sheepskin, leather, and chainmail were chosen deliberately. Not just for texture, but to act as a kind of modern armour.

Ancestral rites stitched in black.

This is not Costume.

This is becoming.