Gothic fashion, the Glossary
Gothic fashion is a clothing style worn by members of the goth subculture.[1]
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119 relations: Alexander McQueen, Ann Demeulemeester, Anna Sui, Aristocrat (fashion), Batcave (club), Bauhaus (band), BDSM, Bela Lugosi, Bettie Page, Body image, Body piercing, Bondage pants, Brothel creeper, Camouflage, Choker, Christian Lacroix, Claude Montana, Cleat (shoe), Clothing, Corset, Cravat (early), Cybergoth, David Bowie, David Vanian, Deathrock, Dotdash Meredith, Dr. Martens, Dracula, Dreadlocks, Drew Bernstein, Duster (clothing), Dystopia, Edgar Allan Poe, English people, Eye liner, Femme fatale, Fetish fashion, Fishnet, Future, Gareth Pugh, Goggles, Goth subculture, Gothic & Lolita Bible, Gothic Beauty, Gothic rock, H. Naoto, Hair coloring, Harajuku, Head shaving, Heavy metal fashion, ... Expand index (69 more) »
Alexander McQueen
Lee Alexander McQueen (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier.
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Ann Demeulemeester
Ann Verhelst (born 29 December 1959), known professionally as Ann Demeulemeester, is a Belgian fashion designer whose label, Ann Demeulemeester, is mainly showcased at the annual Paris Fashion Week.
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Anna Sui
Anna Sui (born August 4, 1955) is an American fashion designer.
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Aristocrat (fashion)
Aristocrat is a Japanese street fashion that is inspired by what is thought to have been worn by middle class and higher social status Europeans in the Middle Ages, as well as the upper class in the 19th century.
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Batcave (club)
The Batcave was a weekly club-night launched at 69 Dean Street in central London in 1982.
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Bauhaus (band)
Bauhaus were an English rock band formed in Northampton in 1978.
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BDSM
BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics.
Bela Lugosi
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956), known professionally as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian–American actor, best remembered for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 horror film classic ''Dracula'', Ygor in Son of Frankenstein (1939) and his roles in many other horror films from 1931 through 1956.
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Bettie Page
Bettie Mae Page (April 22, 1923 – December 11, 2008) was an American model who gained notoriety in the 1950s for her pin-up photos.
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Body image
Body image is a person's thoughts, feelings and perception of the aesthetics or sexual attractiveness of their own body.
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Body piercing
Body piercing, which is a form of body modification, is the practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the human body, creating an opening in which jewellery may be worn, or where an implant could be inserted. Gothic fashion and body piercing are 1990s fashion, 2000s fashion and 2010s fashion.
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Bondage pants
Bondage pants or bondage trousers are trousers with zippers, straps, chains, rings and buckles, giving an appearance of a BDSM style.
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Brothel creeper
Brothel creepers, sometimes shortened to creepers, are a style of shoe that has thick crepe soles, often in combination with suede uppers.
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Camouflage
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else.
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Choker
A choker is a close-fitting necklace worn around the neck, typically 14 inch to 16 inch in length.
Christian Lacroix
Christian Marie Marc Lacroix (born 16 May 1951) is a French fashion designer. Gothic fashion and Christian Lacroix are 1980s fashion.
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Claude Montana
Claude Montana (29 June 1947 – 23 February 2024) was a French fashion designer.
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Cleat (shoe)
Cleats or studs are protrusions on the sole of a shoe or on an external attachment to a shoe that provide additional traction on a soft or slippery surface.
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Clothing
Clothing (also known as clothes, garments, dress, apparel, or attire) is any item worn on the body.
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Corset
A corset is a support undergarment worn to hold and train the torso into the desired shape and posture.
Cravat (early)
The cravat is a neckband, the forerunner of the modern tailored necktie and bow tie, originating from a style worn by members of the 17th century military unit known as the Cravats.
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Cybergoth
Cybergoth is a subculture that derives from elements of goth, raver, rivethead and cyberpunk fashion. Gothic fashion and Cybergoth are 1990s fashion, 2000s fashion and 2010s fashion.
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David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.
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David Vanian
David Vanian (born David Lett, 12 October 1956) is an English rock musician, and lead singer of the punk rock band the Damned.
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Deathrock
Deathrock (or death rock) is a rock music subgenre incorporating horror elements and gothic theatrics.
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Dotdash Meredith
Dotdash Meredith (formerly The Mining Company, About.com and Dotdash) is an American digital media company based in New York City.
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Dr. Martens
Dr. Gothic fashion and Dr. Martens are 1980s fashion, 1990s fashion, 2000s fashion and 2010s fashion.
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Dracula
Dracula is a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, published on 26 May 1897.
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Dreadlocks
Dreadlocks, also known as dreads or locs, are a hairstyle made of rope-like strands of hair. Gothic fashion and Dreadlocks are 1970s fashion, 1980s fashion, 1990s fashion, 2000s fashion and 2010s fashion.
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Drew Bernstein
Drew Bernstein (1963 – August 18, 2014) was an American punk, goth, fetish fashion designer and musician who founded notable clothing companies Lip Service and Kill City.
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Duster (clothing)
A duster is a light, loose-fitting, long coat.
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Dystopia
A dystopia, also called a cacotopia or anti-utopia, is a community or society that is extremely bad or frightening.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
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English people
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture.
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Eye liner
Eye liner or eyeliner is a cosmetic used to define the eyes.
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Femme fatale
A femme fatale, sometimes called a maneater, Mata Hari, or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, deadly traps.
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Fetish fashion
Fetish fashion is any style or appearance in the form of a type of clothing or accessory, created to be extreme, revealing, skimpy, or provocative in a fetishistic manner.
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Fishnet
In the field of textiles, fishnet is hosiery with an open, diamond-shaped knit; it is most often used as a material for stockings, tights, gloves or bodystockings.
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Future
The future is the time after the past and present.
Gareth Pugh
Gareth Pugh (born 31 August 1981) is an English fashion designer Showstudio.com.
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Goggles
Goggles, or safety glasses, are forms of protective eyewear that usually enclose or protect the area surrounding the eye in order to prevent particulates, water or chemicals from striking the eyes.
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Goth subculture
Goth is a music-based subculture that began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. Gothic fashion and Goth subculture are 1980s fashion, 1990s fashion, 2000s fashion and 2010s fashion.
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Gothic & Lolita Bible
was a quarterly Japanese fashion mook which focuses on the Gothic and Lolita fashions.
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Gothic Beauty
Gothic Beauty is an American magazine established by editor Steven Holiday in the fall of 2000 after the success of the Internet social group of the same name.
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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.
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H. Naoto
Naoto Hirooka, better known as h.NAOTO (born 1977), is a Japanese imaginations-related fashion designer.
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Hair coloring
Hair coloring, or hair dyeing, is the practice of changing the color of the hair on humans' heads.
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Harajuku
is a district in Shibuya, Tokyo.
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Head shaving
Head shaving is a form of body modification which involves shaving the hair from a person's head.
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Heavy metal fashion is the style of dress, body modification, make-up, hairstyle, and so on, taken on by fans of heavy metal, or, as they are often called, metalheads or headbangers. Gothic fashion and heavy metal fashion are 1980s fashion, 1990s fashion, 2000s fashion, 2010s fashion and fashion aesthetics.
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Hedi Slimane
Hedi Slimane (born July 5, 1968) is a French photographer and couturier.
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High-heeled shoe
High-heeled shoes, also known as high heels or pumps, are a type of shoe with an upward-angled sole.
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Hot Topic
Hot Topic, Inc. (stylized as HOT TOPIC) is an American fast-fashion company specializing in counterculture-related clothing and accessories, as well as licensed music. Gothic fashion and Hot Topic are 2000s fashion and 2010s fashion.
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Industrial metal is the fusion of heavy metal and industrial music, typically employing repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals.
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Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
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Japanese street fashion
Japanese street fashion refers to a number of styles of contemporary modern clothing in Japan. Gothic fashion and Japanese street fashion are fashion aesthetics.
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Jean Paul Gaultier
Jean Paul Gaultier (born 24 June 1952) is a French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer.
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John Galliano
John Charles Galliano, (born 28 November 1960), is a British fashion designer.
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John Richmond (fashion designer)
John Richmond (born 8 January 1960 in Manchester) is an English fashion designer who is based in Italy.
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Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Otto Lagerfeld (10 September 193319 February 2019) was a German fashion designer.
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La Carmina
La Carmina is a Canadian blogger, author, journalist, and TV host.
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Leather subculture
Leather subculture denotes practices and styles of dress organized around sexual activities that involve leather garments, such as leather jackets, vests, boots, chaps, harnesses, or other items.
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Leeds
Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.
Lipstick
Lipstick is a cosmetic product used to apply coloration and texture to lips, often made of wax and oil.
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Lolita fashion
is a subculture from Japan that is highly influenced by Victorian clothing and styles from the Rococo period. Gothic fashion and Lolita fashion are fashion aesthetics.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Lux Interior
Erick Lee Purkhiser (October 21, 1946 – February 4, 2009), better known by the stage name Lux Interior, was an American singer and a founding member of the American rock band the Cramps from 1976 until his death in 2009 at age 62.
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Maila Nurmi
Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi (December 11, 1922 – January 10, 2008), known professionally as Maila Nurmi, was an American-Finn actress who created the campy 1950s character Vampira.
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Mana (Japanese musician)
is a Japanese musician, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer, best known as guitarist of the visual kei rock band Malice Mizer from their formation in 1992 until their indefinite hiatus in 2001.
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Medieval art
The medieval art of the Western world covers a vast scope of time and place, with over 1000 years of art in Europe, and at certain periods in Western Asia and Northern Africa.
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Morticia Addams
Morticia Addams (née Frump) is a fictional character from the Addams Family multimedia franchise created by American Charles Addams in 1933.
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Musidora
Jeanne Roques (23 February 1889 – 11 December 1957), known professionally as Musidora, was a French actress, film director, and writer.
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Nail polish
Nail polish (also known as nail varnish in British English or nail enamel) is a lacquer that can be applied to the human fingernail or toenails to decorate and protect the nail plates.
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Neo-Victorian
Neo-Victorianism is an aesthetic movement that features an overt nostalgia for the Victorian period.
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Neon
Neon is a chemical element; it has symbol Ne and atomic number 10.
New Gothic
New Gothic or Neo-Gothic is a contemporary art movement that emphasizes darkness and horror.
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New Romantic
New Romantic was an underground subculture movement that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. Gothic fashion and New Romantic are 1980s fashion.
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Nico
Christa Päffgen (16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988), known by her stage name Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, actress, and model.
NME
New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.
Occult
The occult (from occultus) is a category of esoteric or supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of organized religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving a 'hidden' or 'secret' agency, such as magic and mysticism.
Olivier Theyskens
Olivier Theyskens (born January 4, 1977, in Brussels, Belgium) is a Belgian fashion designer who has worked with major design houses, including Rochas, Nina Ricci and Theory.
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Paul Morley
Paul Robert Morley (born 26 March 1957) is a British music journalist.
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Petticoat
A petticoat or underskirt is an article of clothing, a type of undergarment worn under a skirt or a dress. Gothic fashion and petticoat are 1970s fashion.
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Philipp Plein
Philipp Patrick Hannes Plein (born 16 February 1978) is a German fashion designer, entrepreneur, and the founder of the Philipp Plein International Group, which includes the Philipp Plein, Plein Sport, and Billionaire brands.
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Platform shoe
Platform shoes are shoes, boots, or sandals with a thick sole, usually in the range of. Gothic fashion and Platform shoe are 1970s fashion, 1990s fashion, 2000s fashion and 2010s fashion.
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Poet shirt
A poet shirt (also known as a poet blouse or pirate shirt) is a type of shirt made as a loose-fitting blouse with full bishop sleeves, usually decorated with large frills on the front and on the cuffs. Gothic fashion and poet shirt are 1980s fashion.
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Poseur
A poseur is someone who poses for effect, or behaves affectedly, who affects a particular attitude, character or manner to impress others, or who pretends to belong to a particular group.
Punk fashion
Punk fashion is the clothing, hairstyles, cosmetics, jewellery, and body modifications of the punk counterculture. Gothic fashion and punk fashion are 1970s fashion, 1980s fashion, 1990s fashion, 2000s fashion, 2010s fashion and fashion aesthetics.
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Raf Simons
Raf Jan Simons (born 12 January 1968) is a Belgian fashion designer.
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Rave
A rave (from the verb: to rave) is a dance party at a warehouse, club, or other public or private venue, typically featuring performances by DJs playing electronic dance music.
Riccardo Tisci
Riccardo Tisci (born 1974) is an Italian fashion designer.
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Rick Owens
Richard Saturnino Owens (born November 18, 1961) is an American fashion designer from Porterville, California.
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Rivethead
A rivethead or rivet head is a person associated with the industrial dance music scene.
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Robert Smith (musician)
Robert James Smith (born 21 April 1959) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and the co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the Cure, an alternative rock band formed in 1978.
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Rose Mortem
Rose Mortem is an American fashion designer, musician, model, and entrepreneur.
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Rozz Williams
Rozz Williams (born Roger Alan Painter; November 6, 1963 – April 1, 1998) was an American singer and songwriter known for his work with the bands Christian Death, Shadow Project (with musician Eva O), and the industrial project Premature Ejaculation.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
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Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie and the Banshees were a British rock band formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bass guitarist Steven Severin.
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Siouxsie Sioux
Susan Janet Ballion (born 27 May 1957), known professionally as Siouxsie Sioux, is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.
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Skirt
A skirt is the lower part of a dress or a separate outer garment that covers a person from the waist downwards.
Slim-fit pants
Slim-fit pants or skinny jeans (when made of denim) are tight trousers that have a snug fit through the legs and end in a small leg opening that can be anywhere from 9" to 20" in circumference, depending on size. Gothic fashion and Slim-fit pants are 1970s fashion, 1980s fashion, 1990s fashion, 2000s fashion and 2010s fashion.
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Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.
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Steampunk
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by, but not limited to, 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.
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Stefano Pilati
Stefano Pilati (born December 10, 1965, in Milan) is an Italian fashion designer.
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Ted Polhemus
Ted Polhemus (born 1947 in Neptune, New Jersey, United States) is an American anthropologist, writer, and photographer who lives and works on England's south coast.
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The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in 1978 in Crawley, West Sussex.
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The Sisters of Mercy
The Sisters of Mercy are an English rock band formed in Leeds in 1980.
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Theda Bara
Theda Bara (born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.
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Thierry Mugler
Manfred Thierry Mugler (21 December 1948 – 23 January 2022) was a French fashion designer, creative director and creative adviser of Mugler.
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Thigh-high boots
Thigh-high boots, known also as thigh-length boots or simply thigh boots, are boots that extend above the knees to at least mid-thigh.
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Top hat
A top hat (also called a high hat, or, informally, a topper) is a tall, flat-crowned hat traditionally associated with formal wear in Western dress codes, meaning white tie, morning dress, or frock coat.
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Trench coat
A trench coat is a variety of coat made of waterproof heavy-duty fabric, originally developed for British Army officers before the First World War, and becoming popular while used in the trenches, hence the name trench coat. Originally made from gabardine, a worsted wool fabric waterproofed using lanolin before weaving, the traditional colour of a trench coat was khaki.
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Valerie Steele
Valerie Fahnestock Steele (born 1955) is an American fashion historian, curator, and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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Victorian fashion
Victorian fashion consists of the various fashions and trends in British culture that emerged and developed in the United Kingdom and the British Empire throughout the Victorian era, roughly from the 1830s through the 1890s.
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Visual kei
, abbreviated, is a category of Japanese musicians that have a strong focus on extravagant stage costumes that originated in Japan during the early 1980s.
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Wednesday Mourning
Wednesday Mourning is an American actress and model.
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Winklepicker
Winklepickers or winkle pickers are a style of shoe or boot worn from the 1950s onward, especially popular with British rock and roll fans such as teddy boys. Gothic fashion and Winklepicker are 2000s fashion and 2010s fashion.
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Yohji Yamamoto
is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fashion
Also known as Goth fashion.
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