🕸 Burton’s Bizarre Worlds
This film features a candy man with trauma, top hats, and child endangerment.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
This sleeveless staple is Coco Chanel’s gift to minimalist fashion
the little black dress
This Italian city floats on canals and celebrates its opulence each year with masked balls
Venice
This Addams daughter is a deadpan icon of gothic girlhood.
Wednesday Addams
This rocker was “just a girl” in a band called No Doubt.
Gwen Stefani
This Burton character is trapped between the living and the dead after rehearsing his wedding vows to a twig
Victor Van Dort
This fabric, once reserved for mourning, now lines goth wardrobes and runways
black velvet
This Austrian Empress was known for her waist-length hair, corsets, and tragic death
Empress Elisabeth (Sisi)
This Anne Rice vampire was made immortal as a child and resents her doll-like curse.
Claudia
This goth rock band fronted by Robert Smith gave us “Lullaby” and teased hair dreams.
The Cure
This villainous ghost’s name must be said three times to summon him.
Beetlejuice
This designer’s all-black silhouettes made “the absence of color” iconic
Yohji Yamamoto
These mountain peaks stretch across both Italy and Austria and are home to castles and legends.
The Alps
This black gemstone often adorns Victorian mourning jewelry.
Jet
This androgynous glam star fell to Earth as Ziggy Stardust.
David Bowie
Danny Elfman voices and scores this skeletal protagonist’s musical laments
Jack Skellington
In high fashion and witchy circles alike, this pointed item "toes" the line between dramatic and mystical
Stiletto
This Klimt painting is a golden symbol of love and fin-de-siècle Vienna
The Kiss
In Nosferatu, this eerie count brings the plague and shadows to a seaside town.
Count Orlok
This all-girl band’s cherry-bomb hit made punk history
The Runaways
This legendary horror actor, known for his work in Gothic films, had a role in Edward Scissorhands, his final film appearance
Vincent Price
This minimalist aesthetic from Japan embraces imperfection, shadow, and the grace of decay
wabi-sabi
This Italian herbal digestivo, often served after dinner, is bitter, dark, and very gothic
Amaro
In old European folklore, this protective object was placed with the dead to keep them from rising.
a brick in the mouth (or death stone)
Known for theatrics, snakes, and guillotines, this shock rocker brought horror to rock.
Alice Cooper