Sinister attitude, gothic vocation. An overwhelming panoramic vision of that subculture that played with sex and death.
It was possibly the most striking of the youth mythologies that emerged in the eighties. Gothic movement is defined here in opposition to Margaret Thatcher, who was then experiencing her golden decade. One can understand the solipsism of that generation, which lived with horrors like the Yorkshire Ripper, who killed women in and around Leeds. The Goths did not recognize many precedents, although there was an underlying reverential respect for aesthetic transformations.