Fashion War: Gothic Fashion of Vogue Italy vs Flair Magazine

Gothic fashion is usually stereotyped as a dark, sometimes morbid, eroticized fashion and style of dress. Typical Gothic fashion includes black dyed hair and black clothes and both male and female goths wear dark eyeliner and dark fingernails. Styles are often inspired from the Elizabethans and Victorians.(Wikipedia)

This October, two magazines opted to have a fashion showdown across their pages. Vogue Italy and Flair magazine let every reader decide on whose Gothic fashion is the best.

The October issue of Vogue Italia features a sort of a black widow-harlequin look. The models were dressed in see-through black lace with diamond patters, chiffon and long evening gloves. They also used black balloons and grapes as accessories. One can clearly see that they have a sort of retro-modern, avant-garde, Gothic image.








On the other hand, Flair magazine had a set of pictures called "Gotica". The pictures are mostly black and white with splashes of color. A model is photographed with pale bare-chested men who are made up to look like zombies who seem to be battling for her soul. The backgrounds are eerie and sometimes ghostly, feels like you're in a horror movie.










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Vogue Nippon October 2008 Presents Stranger in a Strange Land

Have you imagined yourself in a strange land? You're with people who weren't dressed like do, who ate food that seemed exotic to you, who follows a different faith and who belonged to another raise. How will you mingle with them? How will you bridge the culture gap? What will you do to mix in with the crowd?

Carmen Kass was in these dilemmas as presented in the editorial of Vogue Nippon October issue, entitled Stranger in a Strange Land. Photographed by Yelena Yemchuk, Carmen was in French and Italian gowns amidst traditional Japanese kimonos.















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