GOTH Thing
The Goth fashion originated in the late 1990s in Harajuku. Gothic Lolita Fashion is characterized by darker make-up and clothing. Red lipstick and smokey or neatly defined eyes, created using black eyeliner, are typical styles, although as with all lolita substyles the look remains fairly natural.The key direct founders of goth, though, were former punks Siouxsie and the Banshees, wh ose style began to take on a decidedly sinister tone toward the early 1980s, and Bauhaus, whose self-conscious emphasis upon funereal,macabre sounds and imagery was epitomized in the now legendary record “Bela Lugosi’s Dead.” A selection of British bands that appeared prior to during and after the late 1970’s punk era set the tone for the goth subculture that was to emerge. Crucial ingredients were provided by the deep-voiced feminine glamour of David Bowie, the disturbing intensity and eclecticism of late 1970s Iggy Pop, and the somber angst-ridden despair of Joy Division. The key direct founders of goth, though, were former punks Siouxsie and the Banshees, whose style began to take on a decidedly sinister tone toward the early 1980s, and Bauhaus, whose self-conscious emphasis upon funereal,
macabre sounds and imagery was epitomized in the now legendary record “Bela Lugosi’s Dead.” As the dark, feminine appearance and imagery associated with such bands began to be taken up by their fans, the new “scene” received extensive coverage in the music press. By the mid-1980s, the deep vocals, jangling guitars, and somber base lines of The Sisters of Mercy alongside black clothes, long coats, and dark shades, had established them as the archetypal “goth rock” band. A period of chart success for the Sisters, alongside The Mission, Fields of the Nephilim, The Cure, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, would ensure that toward the end of the 1980s goth enjoyed significant international exposure. Through the 1990s, however, the subculture existed in a rather more underground form, with occasional moments of mass exposure provided by high-profile artists such as Marilyn Manson and through the borrowing of goth style by emerging metal genres and, intermittently, by major fashion labels.
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