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Gothic fashion. Gothic fashion is a clothing style worn by members of the goth subculture. A dark, sometimes morbid, fashion and style of dress, [1] typical gothic fashion includes black dyed hair and black clothes. [1] Both male and female goths can wear dark eyeliner, dark nail polish and lipstick (most often black), and dramatic makeup. [2]
Goth subculture. Goth is a subculture that began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. It was developed by fans of gothic rock, an offshoot of the post-punk music genre. Post-punk artists who presaged the gothic rock genre and helped develop and shape the subculture include Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, the Cure, and Joy Division.
Alternative fashion or alt fashion is fashion that stands apart from mainstream, commercial fashion. It includes both styles which do not conform to the mainstream fashion of their time and the styles of specific subcultures (such as emo, goth, hip hop and punk). [1] Some alternative fashion styles are attention-grabbing and more artistic than ...
20th-century fashion. 21st-century fashion. Goth subculture. Fashion aesthetics. Music and fashion. Hidden category: Commons category link from Wikidata.
Dark academia. Gothic architecture is a common element of the dark academia aesthetic. Dark academia is an internet aesthetic [1] and subculture [2] concerned with higher education, the arts, and literature, or an idealised version thereof. The aesthetic centres on traditional educational clothing, interior design, activities such as writing ...
Cybergoth. Cybergoth is a subculture that derives from elements of goth, raver, rivethead and cyberpunk fashion. Cybergoth was particularly prevalent from the late 1990's, through the 2000's but has since declined dramatically. Opinion differs as to whether cybergoth has the requisite complexity to constitute a subculture, with some ...
Gothic rock. Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted toward dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie and the Banshees, [2][3] Joy Division, [2][3][4] Bauhaus, [2][3] and the Cure. [2][3] The ...
Clan of Xymox. Since the 1980s, [17] [18] [19] the term has been used in Europe to describe the gloomy and melancholy variant of new wave and post-punk music. [5] [20] At that time, the term "goth" was inseparably connected with gothic rock, [21] whereas "dark wave" acquired a broader meaning, including music artists that were associated with gothic rock and synthesizer-based new wave music.