From '90s PJ Harvey and Tim Burton's Nina Ricci, to a Baby Spice/supermodel punk mash-up, the subculture beauty references seemed to be converging around two tribes: punk or goth.

Although Princess Nokia’s mostly been showing off her tomboyish style over the past few years, her recent Instagram TBT shows off her teenage cybergoth roots.

*America has never had a cyber-czar whose position and powers amounted to anything useful. Everybody leaves that post because there's a vast echoing hollow there – where there ought to be ...

Goth is characterised most famously by the notion of a dark aesthetic, so that sartorial choice is often influenced by a melancholic sensibility (black clothes, piercings, tattoos). This is not to ...

Goth is more about the beyond than the here-and-now. Goth concerns itself with the elegiac, the unsettling, and the tomb. In fact, many people involved in Gothic life come from devout upbringings.

So what happened? Lisa owns Psiclone - a predominantly gothic clothes shop in the centre of Birmingham. She's been a goth since she was 15 in 1997 and has been in Birmingham since she was 18.