After I posted
this article, many people asked me who listens to that berserk music. Well, it's most popular with Japanese girls lumped under the general term "gyaru". It is not really a fashion movement per se, as it has fractured into scores of rapidly-evolving subgroups--usually hostile to each other, even though many appear the same to the uninitiated. In fact, the book
Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno, published in 2007, is already said to be out of date.
This website is a bit more current.
What do "gyaru" look like? There are now quite a few slideshows of gyaru on the streets of Tokyo on YouTube. Examples:
here, here, and
here. And for those who need to buy these "fashions", the primary bibles are
FRUiTS and
Egg. There is something wrong with that country.......
posted by metasonix
on Dec 23, 2007 -
78 comments
Every Sunday, it's Halloween in Harajuku. Hanging out by the train station at Tokyo's most fashionable district are young women dressed as nurses, but with white faces and a trickle of painted blood dripping from a lip. Men in their late teens or early twenties fidget under huge manes of spiky green hair and layers of black leather.
Some really amazing costumes can be seen
here. And by amazing I mean
interesting, and by interesting I mean
freaky.
posted by Jase_B
on Jul 19, 2004 -
30 comments
Shiseido Women. 'In Japan, womens fashion, like makeup, continues to
evolve, reflecting the moods and mores of the times.
The following photographs of women provide tantalizing
glimpses into some of the radical changes that have
marked the past century. '
Related interest :-
An American Visit to Japan, 1923.
posted by plep
on Apr 18, 2003 -
7 comments
