† Name/URL: Amelie-Christine
† Age: 22
† Location: Bielefeld, NRW, Germany.
† How were you introduced to Gothic Lolita fashion?
When I was a child I was a big fan of Sailormoon, Digimon and things like that. I started to draw and to listen to Japanese music and when I was about 16 I fell in love with MaliceMizer and Mana. I found the page “animexx”, the biggest online community in Germany for fans of Japan, cosplaying, jrock and started to write in a forum which was for fans from Moitie and the Gothiclolita-fashion. Short time later, I bought my first dress and visited my first jrock-concert and met a lot of really nice persons, who are good friends of mine until today.
† What do you find appealing about GL style and culture?
I love the Japanese mentality, the exchange of culture and tradition and modernity. I love how fast you can get new friends, that you can visit conventions and can look at all these beautiful dresses and people and the fun they have. Also, it is always exciting to see people that you know for a long time from the internet in real life, in the first moment it’s a really strange feeling. The negative aspect is that you have a lot of firends who you can only see a few times in the year, because they are living to far away (at a German meeting for example, there are often Gothic Lolitas from the Netherlands or Austria, also). It’s a very special feeling to be at meetings and to be a “Golo,” a cross between nostalgia and surreality and I really hope to keep it for a lot more years.
† What are your favorite GL clothing brands?
Moi-même-Moitié, Victorian Maiden, Juliette et Justine. Millefleurs, from time to time Metamorphose.
† Any other comments?
There are a lot of different ways to be a golo, some people say it’s only a fashion-style, others say it is an attitude to life. Some people adhere strictly with the combinations of the clothes, others do it as they like and so on , and the only community that we all have is that we’re thinking our way is the only one and the right. Because of this, especially for novices, it’s really hard to become a solid part of us. So, instead of judging and disregarding them, everyone of us should try best to help them. Everybody knows how hard his own start probably was.

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