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Gothic fashion is a clothing style worn by members of the Goth subculture; a dark, occasionally doleful, eroticized fashion and style of dress. Typical Gothic fashion includes black dyed and crimped hair and black garments. Both male and feminine goths sometimes wear dark eyeliner and dark fingernails. Styles are typically borrowed from the Punks, Victorians and Elizabethans. BDSM imagery and paraphernalia are also common. Some haute couture designers, particularly Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, have been associated with the goth aesthetic.

Cintra Wilson declares that "The origins of contemporary goth style are found in the Victorian cult of mourning." Valerie Steele is knowledgeable in the history of the style.

Punk fashion is the styles of clothing, haircuts, cosmetics, jewelry, and body modifications of the punk subculture. Punk fashion varies widely from Vivienne Westwood styles to styles modeled on bands like The Exploited. The distinct social dress of other subcultures and art movements, including glam rock, skinheads, rude boys, greasers, and mods have influenced punk fashion. Punk fashion has likewise influenced the styles of these groups, as well as those of preferred culture. Punks use clothing as a method of making a statement.

Deliberately offensive T-shirts were favored in the early punk scene,eg the infamous DESTROY T-shirt sold at SEX, which featured a reversed cross and a Nazi Swastika. These T-shirts, like other punk clothing items, were regularly torn purposely. Other items in early British punk fashion included: Anarchy symbols; brightly-colored or white and black dress shirts randomly covered in slogans (such as "Only Anarchists are pretty"); fake blood ; patches ; and deliberately controversial images (such as portraits of Marx, Stalin and Mussolini ) were preferred. Leather rocker jackets and customized blazers were early, and remain a common fixture of punk fashion.

Punk fashion has been extremely commercialized at various times, and many well-established fashion designers - like Vivienne Westwood and Jean Paul Gaultier - have used punk elements in their production. Punk clothing, which was at first hand-crafted, became mass produced and sold in record stores and some smaller specialty outfitters by the 1980's.

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what is the song that has drake bell in the video and a black punk rocker girl singing?

I just remember the music video and that it is kind of old, but it was basically the black girl taking drake bell around. it was on mtv and stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UhkEqpAddw
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