Ever since Karl Lagerfeld hosted his legendary Soirée Moratoire Noire party specifying “tragique exigée absolument noire” (“totally black tragic dress required”) in 1977, to say the goth aesthetic has...

Its 7 a.m. Bleary-eyed, you stumble out of bed to the kitchen, where you flip on the coffee machine without even looking at it. Eyes still shut; you limp outside and grab the newspaper, shuffling back inside. It’s...