However, for Black Doves, Knightley has been making quite a few public outings and in clothes that are of an aesthetic we never thought we’d see from her: gothic circus-core.

Many expressions of dark academia on social media are, as Hilless puts it, “un-critical,” but dark academia-inspired media which has repurposed its defining imagery to reclaim a space with a ...

The Dresden Dolls weren’t gothic or emo, not pop either, they were dark cabaret, darling! In 2003, ... An exact combo of Victorian / burlesque / circus aesthetic hits the emo scene in 2005.