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Sunglasses

1993 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plastic & metal sunglasses.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Plastic and metal
Brief description
Sunglasses, metal and plastic, Great Britain, 1993; part of man's Goth outfit.
Physical description
Plastic & metal sunglasses.
Credit line
Given by Martin Meister
Object history
Registered File number 1994/1464.

Part of a Goth outfit (T.988 to 992-1994 and T.756, 757-1994), Street Style, 1993. Worn by Martin Meister, who said at the time:

'The idea was to dress in velvet and silk - to be a dark glamorous puss; a Lord of the Night,' says Martin Meister, an Austrian living in London, who has provided the V & A with a goth outfit. 'But it's not a glam goth outfit,' he insists, referring to the plain black wool jacket, leggings, dark green shirt and pointy shoes. 'When I was 15 and 16 I became a goth in Austria. I coloured my hair black and bought all the Souxie records.'

What was being a goth about? 'A real goth had a gloomy aura but was influenced by quite sophisticated things like Edgar Allen Poe,' he says. 'Real goths were into poetry, spiritual things . . . unlike the goths today who I think are just poseurs.' Would Meister admit to being a goth now? 'Yes, because of my thinking. I still like gloomy things: my favourite film ever is Nosferatu, but as a child I liked the Adams Family and the Munsters - I thought: 'Oh God, what a lifestyle.'

(Martin Meister, interviewed by Sarah Callard for "The British supermarket of style", published in The Independent, Saturday 25 September 1994)
Collection
Accession number
T.757-1994

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Record createdJanuary 11, 2011
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