It’s an interesting quirk of LA—a place quite literally within The Golden State—that goth culture is one of the city’s biggest (unofficial) exports. Sure, you’d be forgiven for picturing perma-tans and platinum blondes when someone mentions Hollywood. But anyone who’s spent any time there will tell you: that city is run by goth girls. And Gabbriette, a native Californian (and fiancée to The 1975’s Matty Healy), is their dark mistress.
She follows a long line of glamour ghouls: Vampira (iconically buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery), Elvira (whom Vampira—real name Maila Nurmi—once sued for impersonation), heck, even Lily Munster and Morticia Addams (the TV adaptation at least) were born in the so-called City of Angels.
