MetaFilter posts tagged with harajuku

Gwen Stefani's appropriation of Japanese stuff

Tlogmer — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:19:01 -0800

Salon (with letters) on Gwen Stefani's clueless appropriation of Japan-ness.

Harajuku Street Style

riffraff — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:12:13 -0800

Harajuku Street Style. Oh those crazy cool Japanese kids! The streets of Harajuku are as much a fashion playground as they are an exhibit of Why You Should Never Pair White Boots with Gold Chains. This is, of course, in line with the existing weirdness of the brilliant Katamari Damacy, mayonnaise-and-squid pizza, and the "no caption required" homoerotic dating sim "le, Tatemasu!",

Harajuku, Tokyo

Jase_B — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 02:53:13 -0800

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.