The goth bride may feel like the latest in fashion-forward wedding trends, but she has haunted the cultural imagination for centuries. Helena Bonham Carter playing goth-bride-muse Miss Havisham in Mike Newell’s 2012 film adaptation of Great Expectations. “I don’t think there should be rules about what a bride should or shouldn’t wear,” she told Vogue upon the collection’s release. “If someone feels most beautiful in something dramatic, romantic or even sexy, then that’s exactly how she should get married.” At the same time, I’ve daydreamed about love and romance ever since I was a kid.”