Coldwave

Coldwave - name used in "continental Europe" (outside UK) and Soviet Union for UK gothic rock and music created by local bands inspired by UK gothic rock bands. Mostly out of use  since mid/late '90s when term goth/gothic rock became preferred name in whole Europe. Nowadays used mainly by members of the '80s scenes in respective countries. Were there separate fashion look of Coldwave? Most likely no, as every country had own fashion variants of clothing. French "cold wavers" had different clothing than for example Polish or Yugoslavian or UK. Cold Wave is just different name for same music as Gothic Rock, not a separate movement. Just has different geographical origin and spread. Attempts to separate Cold Wave and Gothic Rock have no sense whatsoever and are mostly caused by confusion by many different terms that were in use for same music before Gothic Rock became dominant name for movement and assumption that term "Cold Wave" is exclusive for France and maybe Belgium area only when it was used to refer to UK bands like Siouxie and the Banshees and other and was used as self identification term by most of Europeans bands outside of UK and in Eastern Bloc - Poland, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Same story goes with USA term "Death Rock" that was just one of regional names for same movement there. People in USA were referring to the exactly same music also by term "Dirge". Separating Cold Wave, Death Rock from Gothic Rock have very little sense, if there is any reason to separate them whatsoever. They are just local names that were spread across different areas for the same music and in recent decades one of them became dominant world wide  over other terms.