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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Ellie Violet Bramley

Brat summer to goth winter: Beetlejuice revival prompts sartorial spookiness

The cast of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice embraced a darker wardrobe for the film’s promotion.
The cast of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice embraced a darker wardrobe for the film’s promotion. Photograph: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

As Charli xcx declared last week, brat summer is officially over. It is being exorcised by a new mood more befitting of the UK’s darkening autumnal skies: goth winter. So put away your lime green garb and reacquaint yourself with the more shadowy side of your wardrobe, because the realm of the weird, Angela Carter and ghouls is set to take over our wardrobes.

This inky mood is taking hold, in part, thanks to the return of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice to cinemas, 36 years after the original. On the red carpets in the lead-up to the film’s release its stars have been wearing their work on their sleeves.

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