'Gothic' Style

[tulip]

What i Love about the Gothic Style is the creativity..and if done right the culture

If you like going through pix check VampireFreaks.com picture gallery out.

Someone already posted a reference to Morbidoutlook.com- nice articles there.

 

[Betty Boop]

Goth and not goth / before and after

 

[passione]

"true goths would never say that they're goth"

just a thought

 

[Carsten]

Originally posted by TheSoCalledPrep@Aug 8 2004, 12:10 AM
Kind of hooker, but ah well.

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incredibly sexy...

 

[Betty Boop]

Originally posted by passione@Nov 12 2004, 10:52 AM
"true goths would never say that they're goth"

just a thought

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Never was a true goth and never wanted to be, just loved the gothic style.

 

[emi]

That site is great!

Originally posted by purplelucrezia@Aug 8 2004, 11:53 AM
Some people out for an everyday stroll...

http://www.avantgauche.co.uk/gallery/streetsnap.html

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[utopia]

I've enjoyed having a look through this topic...definitely a lot of inspiration here.
I have always been attracted to elements of gothic style, mainly because I love the romance of it and the period fashion influences. before I came to uni I was experimenting a little more with it - a lot of black, beautiful chokers, looong middle-parted hair, very victorian/mediaeval. not depressed or dark, but more floaty and romantic.
lately my curiousity has been rekindled - I've missed it. it can be so unique and creative and beautiful if done well. I'm very attracted to the victorian side of it, more than the lolita side - though the some of the pics that have been posted are absolutely adorable I'll definitely be experimenting more in the future with dark eye makeup in moderation, beautiful victorian-style hair, arm warmers, and chokers.

to me this is absolutely beautiful:

 

[maskedmannequin]

There are two things I love about gothic style (as said before-when it's done well)

1-Expression of self.
2-The feeling of mystery/romance/beauty it invokes.

 

[purplelucrezia]

My newest top, which is lovely to me, and faintly Gothic in styling.

 

[Spacemiu]

from style.com

"the new goth"

Oyster Boy Figures
Even your worst day at work can't compare with the woes of the Pin Cushion Queen (stabbed all over), Brie Boy (noggin made of fromage), and the other hapless characters in Tim Burton's 1997 storybook, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy. The project has now reached official franchise status: The third set of vinyl figures based on the director's creepy illustrations have been issued in time to become this season's hot office accessories.
Oyster Boy three-figure set, $15, available at www.ningyoushi.com.

Comme des Garçons
Rei Kawakubo went on a power trip for spring, contrasting tough black leather jackets with tutus, including some vintage ones from the English National Ballet. But thanks to eye masks of white makeup, the effect was more Siouxsie Sioux than Madonna in her Desperately Seeking Susan days.

Face-off
Goth makeup—a mix of kabuki, eighteenth-century powder, and cosmetics for cadavers—is resurfacing in magazines from Pop to Paris Vogue. For the latter's October issue, hairstylist Guido Palau and makeup artist James Kaliardos transformed angelic Gemma Ward with tousled, close-to-the-head hair and white face paint built up in layers. The final effect? "A mix of Edward Scissorhands, Dario Argento, and Edward Gorey," Kaliardos said.

Gemma Ward in Balenciaga, Le Edition.

Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese
A marriage made in hell: shock rocker Marilyn Manson and the fashion world's favorite neo-burlesque pinup Dita Von Teese are planning a wedding at the German castle of Manson collaborator Gottfried Helnwein. The groom-to-be promises a "traditional" ceremony. You know the sort of thing: ritual sacrifices, Black Mass...

The Trash Bag
With its pendant chains, crystal drops, medallions, beads, and safety pins, Nancy Bacich's bag is everything a goth magpie could wish for. Plus, the chain mail mesh is positively medieval.

Trash bag, $1,380, available at Maxfield's Los Angeles, (310) 274-8800, and by special order at Bergdorf Goodman, NYC, (212) 753-7300.

 

[Spacemiu]

Amie Dicke
Amie Dicke really knows how to stick it to you. The critically acclaimed Dutch artist uses a knife to transform images torn from the pages of fashion magazines to ferocious, full-on effect.

Shiseido the Makeup, by Amie Dicke, 2004, cutouts and ink on magazine paper.

Karen Walker Jewelry
On sale: outsider status. Karen Walker, the New Zealand designer who is irresistibly drawn to the loner (not surprising, considering her geographic coordinates), launched her jewelry line this fall. It features ladylike elements, such as pearls and diamonds, beautifully subverted by skulls and cigarette butt charms.

Selected items available at I Heart, NYC, (212) 219-9265, and www.karenwalkerjewelry.com.

Mark Ryden
With a Pat the Bunny-meets-Seed of Chucky aesthetic, Mark Ryden's work has a hypnotic appeal that is as appalling as it is accomplished. (Marilyn Manson is a collector, natch.) For those in search of haunted celebrations, holiday or otherwise, Ryden's paintings are featured in two exhibitions: Frye Art Museum, Seattle, through February 12, 2005; Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA, February 26 to May 8, 2005.

Limited edition Blood CD in triptych package, by Stan (Wall of Voodoo) Ridgway and Mark Ryden, $33, available at www.goreydetails.com and (503) 256-3122.

Cinderalla
Gather round for the classic tale of an orphan and her wicked stepsisters... and how she digs up her dead father, butchers canaries to make yakitori, and falls in love with a zombie while searching for her bra. Powerpuff Girls similarities notwithstanding, Japanese artist Junko Mizuno's warped retelling of Cinderella is rife with dark, trippy touches. (To wit, our heroine leaves behind her eyeball in lieu of a glass slipper.)
Junko Mizuno's Cinderalla, published by Viz, $16, available at www.ningyoushi

 

[purplelucrezia]

Mark Ryden
With a Pat the Bunny-meets-Seed of Chucky aesthetic, Mark Ryden's work has a hypnotic appeal that is as appalling as it is accomplished. (Marilyn Manson is a collector, natch.) For those in search of haunted celebrations, holiday or otherwise, Ryden's paintings are featured in two exhibitions: Frye Art Museum, Seattle, through February 12, 2005; Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA, February 26 to May 8, 2005.

I've loved his work for a while now... Marilyn Manson actually seems to be a fairly normal man beneath it all, by the way.

 

[brian]

..i was in an LV store yesterday...they have nothing form fall...just gross blk murakamis... ...i had to run for my life...

OMG!

 

[brian]

I was in Claire's yesterday... they have this in black rhinestones and plain rhinestones. Exactly the same as Urban... $6.50. I was so happyyyy....

i want that pin so bad

 

[TheSoCalledPrep]

i don't like any of that stuff from style.com... utopia's picture is nice. it reminds me of The Raven.

 

[utopia]

from style.com

Face-off
Goth makeup—a mix of kabuki, eighteenth-century powder, and cosmetics for cadavers—is resurfacing in magazines from Pop to Paris Vogue. For the latter's October issue, hairstylist Guido Palau and makeup artist James Kaliardos transformed angelic Gemma Ward with tousled, close-to-the-head hair and white face paint built up in layers. The final effect? "A mix of Edward Scissorhands, Dario Argento, and Edward Gorey," Kaliardos said.

I really love this...though it's the only one from the style.com set that appeals to me at all.

...but methinks we have spies at tfs...

 

[Spacemiu]

...but methinks we have spies at tfs...

????

 

[purplelucrezia]

I really love this...though it's the only one from the style.com set that appeals to me at all.

...but methinks we have spies at tfs...

They could certainly use them, seeing as how they're usually like two seasons behind.

 

[StylePrincess]

I like this, and the makeup too..

I really love that skirt! Looks great with the fishnets as well-actually like the top as well. Where's it from may i ask? I'll probably never be able to afford it and i'm in england anyway. Not sure if i'd wear them together but separately. I love the gothic style skirts in this thread!

 

[jennifer~]

I love gothic elegance. I'm not fond of the rougher interpretations of gothic style ie. spikes and studs but I think of that as being more 'industrial'-influenced than traditionally gothic.