Goth Girl of the Week: December 2006

Year in Review

Dec 28, 2006

Its been a quick first year with ten models featured since September 1. We thank everyone who has checked out the site and those who submitted. If you have submitted and still haven't heard from us, we are simply waiting for next year.

Here is a quick review of those models featured on Goth Girl of the Week in 2006.

Wednesday Mourning	Lady Atropos	Baby Black
Sindel Chaos	Cyanotica	Maitri
Vivica Love	Skary Kerry	Miss Katonic
	Brandyy Skye

So who was your favorite this year? We took votes until Jan 6/07, and counted them against our own votes already cast, and declared a winner as Goth Girl of the Year 2006.

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News: My Chemical Romance Film

Dec 24, 2006

Digital spy:
Rock band My Chemical Romance have revealed that they would love to release a film version of their latest album.

Rumours have been rife recently over claims that The Black Parade will be turned into a full-length feature film and frontman Gerard Way has fuelled speculation further.

Way has said that although nothing is definite, the film project is something that the band is interested in.

He told Billboard, "It's something that we would love to see. I can't say that people should expect it in the future, but I know it's in the public vibe right now and people are talking about it. So, we'll see."

Dark Horizons:
Rock band My Chemical Romance have revealed that they would love to release a film version of their latest album says Digital Spy

Rumours have been rife recently over claims that "The Black Parade" will be turned into a full-length feature film and frontman Gerard Way has fuelled speculation further.

Way has said that although nothing is definite, the film project is something that the band is interested in.

He told Billboard, "It's something that we would love to see. I can't say that people should expect it in the future, but I know it's in the public vibe right now and people are talking about it. So, we'll see".

News: Goth-Loli street style in Japan

Dec 16, 2006

From ZeeNews:

On the streets of Harujuku in downtown Tokyo, a fringe fashion statement is taking a turn on to the high streets.

The winding roads behind what is considered the centre of Japan`s youth fashion had been home for some years to a growing number of Gothic Lolita adherents - often called "Goth-loli` in Japanese. But with their numbers now estimated in the tens of thousands and still growing and getting older and more financially independent from their parents, shops and fashion brands have popped up all over dedicated to loosening their velvet purse strings.

These alternative fashionistas who make up the majority of the Goth-loli crowd stand out with their Victorian ruffled dresses, lace bonnets, and Mary Jane pumps with knee length leggings. Most are looking to be seen as cute and not sexy. Few really understand the meaning of the word Lolita, which in Japan has more of a sweet child connotation rather than the taboo sexual one made famous by the Russian author Vladimir Nabokov.

Dressed mostly in black in its orthodox form, teenagers -- and more and more adults now -- have subdivided this trend to include, among others, Sweet Lolitas - often dressed solely in pink and white, and Classic Lolitas - dressed in more muted browns and natural shades.

Believed to be an off-shoot of the Gothic look of many of the punk-bands of the late 1990s, the addition of the sweet and cutesy elements helped make this statement more acceptable to many Japanese who were looking for an alternative fashion statement in the nation`s often conservatively dressed crowd.

At a recent fashion show organised by one of the largest dedicated Gothic Lolita magazines, Kora (monthly circulation of 80,000), nearly 1,500 Gothic Lolita fans at gathered to watch parade the hottest brands of crinoline and pettycoat - they themselves in their best -- and most gothic -- outfit.

"By wearing this outfit, I can be myself. I can be who I really want to be," said 27-year old nurse Kazumi Aoki in a Classic Lolita look and hugging a giant teddy bear -- a common Goth-Loli accessory.

Even some of the men appear to be getting in to the act.

"Gothic Lolita appeals to adult men, too," said Yusuke Dendo, a 20-year old student said in a more punk-gothic look reminiscent of the neo-romantic movement of the United Kingdom in the 1980s.

Indeed, many of the Goth-Loli trend currently sweeping through Japan has its origins in the punk and new-age wave of the U.K -- though now it`s merged in Japan with the saccharine subculture of Japanime (or Japan-animation).

"Gothic fashion represents coolness in the darkness, which some people might find a bit scary and distant themselves from. That`s why these girls mixed Lolita fashion into it so that they can look cool and pretty at the same time," explained Naoki Matsumura, editor in chief of Kora, Japan`s Gothic Lolita Bible.

However, while this trend is likely to mature for a while in Japan - it is also growing in popularity overseas.

US pop stars such as Gwen Stefani have made them iconic and globally renown with her video clips and songs about the "Harajuku Girls". Courtney Love and other U.S. pop stars have also jumped on the band wagon.

However with few Goth-Loli shops and brands available outside Japan, unlike their Japanese sisters many overseas are said to be forced to buy their clothes on online auction sites or sew them up themselves, according to overseas websites dedicated to Gothic Lolita's.

News: More Loli on TV

Dec 10, 2006

Episode of ANTM (America's Next Top Model) cycle 3 in which they visit Sawa Vaughters, a Japanese Street Fashion Stylist. not all of it is Goth-lolita, but it is featured.

Tags Loli Lolita Gothic Lolita America's Next Top Model

News: Gothloli on TV news

Dec 6, 2006

Tokyo Eye is an English language magazine show about curent fashion and style, on Japan's HNK television and in this episode Patrick Macias takes a look at the Gothloli style. As the fashion has evolved on the streets of Harajuku, a Tokyo neighbourhood, that has become the lolita / goth weekly meet-up site.

Shinjuku is region of Tokyo full of fashionable stores, and they take a look at a mall, Oione, were at least eight floors are full of gothloli fashion. Macias brings two extremes of the fashion in to th studio and breaks down the fashion for viewer.

Part Two starts with a visit to the home of Gothloli Choko-nyan, a twenty year old student, who has been in love with the look for over six years. Her persona Ayana is the band seeking darker loli.

Back in Harajuku foreigners have joined the scene. Also featured are Gothic Lolita Bible and Kera Manaiax Magazines. A very interesting report.