NEWS: Here a Neo-Goth, There a Neo-Goth, Everywhere a Neo-Goth

CULTURE: Here a Neo-Goth, There a Neo-Goth, Everywhere a Neo-Goth

According to the L.A. Times, neo-goth is the new black, resurrecting itself on the streets of Hollywood and the Paris runways in fashions with an affection for the dark side. Paula Thomas, a Bond girl in "A View to a Kill" turned runway model for Alexander McQueen turned neo-goth fashion designer, creates be-skulled scarves called "Skull Row" for her Thomas Wylde label sported by the likes of Lindsay Lohan. Meanwhile, John Galliano's latest collection for Christian Dior debuted this week in Paris, featuring blood-spattered, crucifix-bearing, skull-hemmed fashions for the neo-goth-minded socialite.

Where is the twitch emoticon?

guess I'll have to go with the always applicable

Which of course in this situation has layers of meaning!

Fuck, man. I mean.... FUCK. Well, at least it makes the wankers easy to point out,

I'm so neo-goth, i shit neo-bats.

Shit. Apparently I've been ne0-gawth since 1997.

Not that I really think mixing suits, ties and the macabre qualifies as a new style or movement... It's just so hard to find Vicorian suits these days

Oh god, that's the funniest thing I've read in months.

Why aren't there any pictures of the gothed up Lindsay Lohan floating around on the internet?

...the Goths were conquered by Rome right,,,...??

susannah, I don't mean to be rude, but you seem to have an attraction to stories from clueless mainstream publications about "new" or "revival" counter-cultures and trends that many of the people on this site have been into for years.

For example: "Comics are grown-up now!" (Comics have been grown-up for decades)


[Edited on Jan 26, 2006 by Keith]

Well, it is the LA Times....

Wow, that's one of the dumbest things I've ever read.

"We're eco goths!"

God bless Scooby Doo.

[Edited on Jan 26, 2006 by Lemonkid]

Scooby doobie dooooo where are you

ive actually seen that episode, too

OMG, I waaaant!!!!!

Its sad but those ill fitting corsets would look so fab on the dance floor.

blah. sheesh.

i think everyone (even these fashion ppl) want to be super cool and "alternative" because the "alternative" world is so damn honest and up in your face and powerful. its kinda like goth is buddah and all the children are trying to get a piece of him.

Keep believing that.

I think you're missing the point. The story isn't "Goth is New" or "Comics are New" but "the LA Times is doing a story on neo-Goth Designers" Also, you're just reading the clip and not the MANY articles she links to.

Also, Susannah's been into this stuff (and writing about it) for longer than most members.


[Edited on Jan 26, 2006 by PointBlank]

Goths don't show up on film, do they?

Possibly. Maybe I'm missing the intent of these stories. If so, I apologize.

Now if I'd just kept my wardrobe from 1985-1989
I'd be in style.

So, Goth is the new black.



Wait.

So they processed out all the angst and frustration and managed to produce pure, refined posturing?

Having looked through the pictures 1. Why are all the models blond? 2. what the hell is up with their makeup? Is waxy manequin in these days? and 3. Tacky is not nearly a strong enough word.

[Edited on Jan 26, 2006 by Frank]

I thought the Gothic Revival was a Romantic 19th Century phenomenon, thus making "Neo-Goth' over 150 years old. I also believe the Gothic Revival was reappropriated by the New Romantics in the 1980s, making the current neo-goth "trend" Neo-Neo-Neo Goth. Right?

In any case, I think it's time we moved towards Post-Goth...