The Cure frontman Robert Smith Music has always had a dark ... but poor old goth steadfastly refused to be dragged out its dark corner, utterly resistant to fashion and style.

In the late 19th century, artists were going goth. Works like Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a Skeleton With a Burning Cigarette (1886), Edvard Munch’s By the Deathbed (1893) and Hugo Simberg’s The Garden ...