Fashion

TLDR: Alternative and Gothic styles have become popular in mainstream festival fashion because festivals are a space where style blurs with “costume,” encouraging attendees to go bigger and bolder. The mainstream often copies elements of alternative fashion (like band tees), but alternative festival-goers reclaim the uniqueness by: Alternative & Gothic Festival Fashion You may remember that not so long ago, the mainstream were turning their noses up at alternative fashion. That’s what made us so…alternative! Anything deemed a little too gothic, too punk, too downright weird was shunned by mainstream... Read More

Held every year in Leipzig since 1992, Wave Gotik Festival has quickly become a favourite summertime haunt for goths all over the world. Billed as the world’s largest gothic subculture festival, it always takes place over the Whitsuntide weekend and promises a killer lineup of some of the hottest names in the gothic and industrial scene. Who Goes to Wave Gotik Treffen? This year, around 21,000 gothic guests, including those of gothic subcultures of all kinds, descended on Leipzig. Visitors from all over the world from Scandinavia to Mexico, the... Read More