August 13, 2026 — Brooklyn, New York
There are some events where you show up, set up a table, sell a few things and go home.
Goth Skate Night at Xanadu felt like something else.
Hosted at Xanadu Roller Arts in Brooklyn, the night brought together skating, music, fashion, artists, vendors and a room full of people who clearly understood the assignment. Black clothes, chains, tattoos and platforms moved underneath the rink lights while Clock Serum, Botched Angel and Nightwitch handled the sound.
Coven x Coven came through with a piece of our world.
Setting Up Shop
For the night, we brought a mix of clothing, accessories, crochet pieces and jewelry, along with copies of The Sleepless.
At this point, our pop-ups are becoming less about simply putting products on a table and more about figuring out what a Coven x Coven space should actually feel like.
The rack. The black table. Silver hardware. Crochet roses. Spikes. The magazine. The banner overhead.
Each event gives us another opportunity to build that world in real life.
And Goth Skate Night was exactly the kind of environment we want that world to exist inside.
The Rink After Dark
Once the night got moving, Xanadu transformed.
People circled the rink underneath red, purple and blue light while the rest of the space filled with people dancing, drinking, meeting each other and moving between the vendors.
That distinction matters to us.
Coven x Coven has never been about alternative fashion existing by itself. Clothes are part of something larger: the music you listen to, the places you go, the people you meet and the version of yourself you decide to become when you get dressed.
A night like this puts all of those things in the same room.
Familiar Faces, New Connections
We were invited out by Nightwitch, one of the DJs for Goth Skate Night and the person responsible for bringing Coven x Coven into the night.
Events like this don't happen without people actively creating spaces for the scene to exist. Being invited into those spaces—and trusted to add something to them—is something we don't take lightly.
And we weren't the only ones building something.
Nearby, fellow vendor Naomi brought her handmade chainmail work, filling her table with metal jewelry and accessories. Seeing independent makers working beside one another is one of our favorite parts of doing these events. Everyone arrives with their own language, materials and interpretation of the culture.
The result feels less like traditional retail and more like a temporary marketplace built by the scene itself.
The Sleepless, Off the Page
We also brought copies of The Sleepless with us.
The magazine was created to document the people and creative energy around us, so there was something particularly fitting about having copies sitting on the table while some of the people featured inside were actually in the building.
Nohemi, featured inside the issue, got to hold her spread in her hands.
And so did Crysztie.
Seeing the magazine move from something we created into a physical object that exists inside the same community it documents is exactly why we wanted to make it in the first place.
The clothes, photographs, magazine, events and people aren't separate projects to us.
They're different pieces of the same world.
Cuties in the Wild
Then came one of our favorite parts of the night.
The Cuties left the table.
And then another.
Seeing something handmade at our table become part of someone's outfit almost immediately is still a strange little moment.
These pieces start with yarn, hardware, chains and an idea. Then eventually we're standing in a roller rink watching someone walk away with one attached to their bag.
That's the full cycle.
Something gets made in our world and then gets absorbed into somebody else's.
More Than a Pop-Up
That's ultimately what stayed with us about Goth Skate Night.
Yes, we came to sell clothes and accessories.
But we also got to photograph people, watch customers leave wearing our work, put The Sleepless into people's hands, meet other makers, strengthen relationships and exist inside a larger alternative community for a night.
That is becoming an increasingly important part of what Coven x Coven is.
We don't want the brand to exist exclusively on a website or an Instagram feed.
We want it in rooms.
At shows.
At parties.
At skate nights.
On people's bags.
Around their necks.
In their hands.
For a few hours in Brooklyn, we got another glimpse of what that can look like.
We'll keep building from there.
Become & Edit.
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