I don't get why astarion would be considered attractive, when exatly did the powdered wig look come into fashion again, and how did i miss it?
It didn't come into fashion again, it is rather a stack of cliché. The young, suave and charming renaissance era aristocrat coupled with the supernatural dangerous beauty of the vampire.
I plan on inventing a time machine, then travelling back to 1973 to steal Anne Rice's typewriter.