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Dark Wash Recycle – ‘gothcore’ and high fashion

It’s all part of the Dark Wash Cycle, where the catwalk commandeers goth style for their Fall-Winter collections, and every journalist has to act like they’ve never seen huge boots or winged eyeliner before. Continue reading

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Dune is (still) Star Wars for Goths

Exquisite, inhuman vistas featuring brooding introspective sequences with black-cloaked figures make for an appropriately Halloween viewing experience. Continue reading

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“Hate Crime in the North” – Sophie Lancaster’s murder and the changes that followed, in discussion

A Yorkshire-based charity is about to launch a series of ‘Changing Perspectives’ events and will be joined by Dr Sylvia Lancaster OBE, mother of murdered Sophie Lancaster and advisor for the Government’s Independent Advisory Group for Hate Crime. Continue reading

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Coronation Street storyline features ‘hate crime’ attack on Goth character

Nina is a proud Goth, impeccably attired in Victorian, skull-motif and mourning-themed clothing with the recognizably stark, monochrome makeup that the subculture is associated with. Continue reading

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“What Year Is This?” The timelessness of Twin Peaks

This is how we should process the storytelling of Twin Peaks – fragments recalled by David Lynch, dreaming he is Dale Cooper, dreaming of spirits good and evil, murder and mercy, the real and the other…. coffee and pie. Continue reading

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