Yahoo Lifestyle Tish Weinstock Celebrates ‘How to Be Goth’ With Dinner at Lucien
Following a signing at Climax, Tish Weinstock continued the celebration of her new book “How to Be Goth: Notes on Undead Style” on Wednesday with dinner at Lucien.
The beauty editor and her husband, Tom Guinness, were joined by friends like Lila Moss, Fara Homidi, Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark, Mel Ottenberg, Jordan Daniels, Sabine Getty, Jessie Andrews, Sofia Hublitz, Nicky Campbell, Aweng Ade-Chuol, Julia Hobbs, Dara Allen, Alexander Roth and Tyrell Hampton.
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“I met a 12-year-old girl called Stella, she was wearing smeared black makeup and black lipstick and she was like ‘I love you, I want to be a Goth. I am a Goth.’” Weinstock said from the back of the restaurant about the signing’s highlight. “I was like ‘it’ll get better.’ And then her mum was like ‘that’s what we keep saying.’ It was amazing. When I was her age I felt f–king allergic to my own skin.”
Weinstock was dressed, appropriately, in Gothic-black, while the rest of the room’s attire read more fashion-black. As feels right at Lucien, martinis were in nearly every hand and at any given point in the evening half of the room could be found outside having a smoke break.
“I wasn’t alive in the ’70s, but I think to me, Goth is a term that can be used to describe someone who’s part of something that feels a bit dark, feels sad, feels a bit alternative. And nowadays we don’t need to listen to Goth music because what is that? You’re just someone that’s a bit dark and you’re like, ‘I don’t know what to do with all this energy,’” Weinstock said.
In the time since she finished the book, she’s clocked the rise of Goth in the zeitgeist, with the movie “Nosferatu” and in John Galliano’s work at Maison Margiela.
“This world is very dark, and I think we are using this dark culture as a way to come to terms with and make sense of everything that’s happened,” she said.
As for how to approach the upcoming New York Fashion Week in a Goth way: “I don’t think you should be prescriptive like that,” she said. “I think you should just live your truth. Just enjoy whatever resonates.”
Launch Gallery: Lila Moss, Jessie Andrews and More Celebrate Tish Weinstock's Book Party
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