Fashion
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An Introduction to the Staring Gaze of Steampunk
Steampunk’s growing popularity in books, film, games, fashion, and décor, has only exacerbated the problem, as the term has evolved…
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Creative Business from the Point of View of Goth Subculture
Businesses were looked into in this article from the point of view of the creative goth subculture
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The Role of Clothes in the Making of the Victorian Woman
To nineteenth-century writers the phrase “clothes make the man” no empty cliche, but a profound and perceptive truth about the…
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The Evolution of the Perceptions of the Goth Subculture
From its origin in the late 1970s to today, the subculture has evolved significantly, and with it the perceptions of…
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Gothic Lolitas Presenting the Extraordinary Secret Self
This article explores the trend for young adults in Hong Kong and South East Asia to dress up in themed…
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Introduction to an Every Day Living in Contemporary Gothic
The sensibility of contemporary gothic, changing our attitudes to such diverse areas as the nature of the arts, the meaning…
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Original Darkness: Style and spirituality in Goth Subculture
This article provides an ethnographic account of Goth subculture within a major metropolitan city in the northeastern United States of…
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Fashion Revivals as Time Travel and “Spectacular Subcultures”
Subcultural identity in the twenty-first century is best understood when situated within the larger discourse of the postmodern, and despite…
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Female Sensuality in Contemporary Victorian Fashion
This article focuses on the use of the corset and the practice of tight-lacing as visual and ideological shorthand in…
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Neo-Victorian Fashion Revivals and Subcultures
The fact remains that while some subcultures around the world have taken to wearing forms of neo-Victorian clothing, it is…
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Steampunk Artistry as the Heart of Victorian Futurism
Steampunk art is based on a fantasy of the future by Victorian society, the realisation of that idea will lay…
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Japanese Gothic Lolitas Doll-like Aesthetics and Sensual Glamour
The aesthetical cuteness is no doubt part of the Japanese Gothic Lolita, and the extensive use of lace and doll-like…