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The gothic vision at the heart of Alexander McQueen’s savage beauty
Alexander McQueen, It's Only a Game, S/S 2005.firstVIEWLondon is about to experience an Alexander McQueen extravaganza. A show at the Tate Britain has just opened featuring Nick Waplington’s...
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Goths just wanna have fun – why there’s a problem with the depressed stereotype
Laugh, it's Tim Minchin. Katy Walsh, CC BYGoths are more likely to be depressed, we’re told in a recent study that was published in The Lancet Psychiatry. You’d be forgiven for a lack of surprise – the...
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The fashion of Twin Peaks: why David Lynch’s TV show is back in style
Twin Peaks, David Lynch’s iconic TV series, is returning to our screens after it went missing for almost three decades. First broadcast in 1990, the show became a cult classic and is celebrated by fans...
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Dracula: free movement of vampires a fitting horror story for the Brexit era
Bloody and unbowed: Claes Bang as Dracula.BBC/Hartswood Films/Netflix/David EllisFictional vampires tend to reflect the politics of the times that produce them: “Because they are always changing, their...
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Renfield: Nicolas Cage’s reimagining of Dracula pulls the vampire film into...
“Don’t make it a sexual thing!” Nicolas Cage’s Dracula tells Nicholas Hoult’s Renfield in this new interpretation of the classic vampire movie. “I eat boys … I eat girls.” In a line, the film deftly...
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A brief history of goth fashion – from all-black to pastels
Goth is the subculture that never died – or more precisely, perhaps, remains undead. The persistence of the subculture’s style is due to the remarkable richness of the cultural tradition on which it...
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