New Trend Alert: Japan's Prominent Goth Look

Goth has still been relatively underexploited, That’s why there’s room for us to do something like this and not have people think, ‘This is so weird,’ and roll their eyes, like, ‘Oh, Goth. This person is so depressed.’ Now they think it’s cool and relevant.”The Gothic Lolita, who’s getting the spotlight treatment. It’s a culture that’s about escapism and fantasy, and those are kind of the hallmarks of fashion,” she says, noting Gothic Lolita’s rise in the Nineties. “With the downturn of the Japanese economy, post-bubble, there was a certain sense of hopelessness felt by the youth for the first time