The Most Ludicrous Article of the Silly Season

August 24, 2009  //  Posted by: Content Keyword RSS  //  Category: Main Content
Heather Podesta, a Storm in the Summer of the Lobbyist Few Washington lobbyists do “The Ask” with more whimsy than Heather Podesta, a leggy 39-year-old with striking streaks of silver in her black hair, a flirty style and a lawyer’s eye for detail. In a sea of Washington gray, Podesta has a penchant for flamboyantly patterned dresses — a Brazilian number featuring the image of a cassette tape one recent afternoon. She once read one of those networking manuals and she took its advice to heart

Hot Emo Girl, You Make My Rockin’ World Go Round

August 24, 2009  //  Posted by: Content Keyword RSS  //  Category: Main Content
I never thought I’d say it, but emo girls are hot. Sexist? Objectifying? Demeaning to the struggle of women for equal rights and recognition? No, I’m just saying. I think that things like unrequited love, melancholia, and expressions treading the line of philosophical and emotional are more feminine than masculine. The emo archetype simply doesn’t work for dudes, unless you’re willing to be branded a self-mutilating pussy for the wrist… I mean, rest, of your life. Yet I think I

Gothic Art

August 23, 2009  //  Posted by: Content Keyword RSS  //  Category: Main Content
Antiques -gt; Decorative-Arts Gothic art refers to any art, whether it’s a painting, a sculpture, or some other medium, created from about the mid-12th century through the end of the 14th century. Art was still created over the next century that’s often called International Gothic, but this type of art was more secular and generally had a more natural style than the Gothic art produced during the preceding 200 hundred years. It’s those 200 years that are considered the span of the

Anything Goth

August 23, 2009  //  Posted by: Content Keyword RSS  //  Category: Main Content
When something is goth it means it’s something old particularly in the Medieval age. Goth fashion can be similarly linked to the emo and punk look or just think of Frankenstein or Interview with the Vampire. There are so many definitions on what being goth really is, is it the dark clothes and the red [...]

GOTHLOLI OF THE WEEK #82: MARIA. FILM OF THE WEEK: STANLEY KUBRICK’S A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, LITTLE ALEX DROOGS.

August 23, 2009  //  Posted by: Content Keyword RSS  //  Category: Main Content
† Name: Maria † Age: 27 † Location: Kalmar, Sweden † How were you introduced to Gothic Lolita fashion? I had a lot of friends who were into the Japanese pop culture scene and one of them wanted to show me this “cool weird book of fashion” that he had picked up. So he pointed at a Gothic Lolita spread in the book and said: “That is so you, Maria!” And yeah, it truly was. That’s almost 10 years ago. † What do you find appealing about GL style and culture? I love the silhouette the mos