Japan Rock Fashion

Japan Rock Fashion

So they are nothing like you can in Europe, but they are so classy, original and funky colorful, that you just cannot do nothing but fall in love with them... I love that so rock and roll punkish fashion in Japan. There is colors, but its not a total mess and kitsch and there is dark mood but just as much as it enough for the good look. And it's so fresh and eye catching that I want to have all these clohes in my wardrobe and wear them with love... Enjoy Japan with this selection young people who just grabbed my mind and twisted upside down !! Awesome!

 

 

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Lolita style

Lolita style

I promised to write more about Lolita styling in fashion that originated in Japan. There are many kinds or modern Lolitas nowadays,so we need to know the major elements which consists one Lolita look. A Lolita outfit is composed of basic key elements. These can be broken down into: headwear, blouse, bell-shaped skirt, undergarment, legs, and footwear. Each element is essential in creating the proper Lolita aesthetic, but as you will see, there is much room for variety within them. Although none of these can be called absolute necessities, remember that coordinating a Lolita outfit is a bit like making a cake. You can take away or replace a couple of ingredients, but if you take away the butter, the sugar, and the milk, it just stops being cake.

Gothic Lolita outfit like all Lolita styles, is very modest in today's standards. As with other Lolita styles a Gothic Lolita outfit can usually be recognized by the bell-shaped skirt, and puff-sleeves. A Gothic Lolita outfit is usually comprised of black or rich dark colors such as burgundy, purple and navy.

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Japanese street styles

Japanese street styles

After presented the most shocking style in Japan - ganguro it's time to see other street outfits. They are also very extravagant, unique and colorful, but the make-up is less. Let's get down in the Japanese underground.

At present there are many styles of dress in Japan, created from a mix of both local and foreign labels. Some of these styles are extreme and avant-garde, similar to the haute couture seen on European catwalks. Though the styles have changed over the years, street fashion is still prominent in Japan today. Young adults can often be found wearing subculture attire in large urban fashion districts such as Harajuku, Ginza, Shinjuku and Shibuya. Main street style names : 

 Lolita (gothic, sweet, punk, classic)- there are many more Lolita styles, but I will make another article dedicated to the whole Lolita story, styles and fashion streams.

KOGAL style - The kogal fashion involves wearing an outfit based on a Japanese school uniform, but with a shortened skirt, loose socks, and often dyed hair and a scarf as well.

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GANGURO girls - journey to JAPAN

GANGURO girls - journey to JAPAN

As I was travelling in my mind east of Europe to far away India, I decided to continue my fashion travel up to unknown Japan. Japan modern culture is very different from Europe, much more extravagant, wild, strange, hardly acceptable by ordinary people. I admire Japenese for their invention of something unique. I do lovve everything that is new, one of a kind and extravagant. Talking about Japan I want to present two things about fashion there. First is Ganguro style with its two courses -  Yamanba and Manba. Second is the street people from the streets in Japan. 

Now let's pay attention to Ganguro fashion. What it is? 

Ganguro (：顔黒 "Black Face", pronounced 'ganguro') is an alternative fashion trend of blonde or orange hair and tanned skin among young Japanese women that peaked in popularity around the year 2000. The Shibuya and Ikebukuro districts of Tokyo were the centers of ganguro fashion. Ganguro appeared as a new fashion style in Japan in the early 1990s and to date is prevalent mostly among young women. In ganguro fashion, a deep tan is combined with hair dyed in shades of orange to blonde, or a silver grey known as "high bleached". Black ink is used as eye-liner and white concealer is used as lipstick and eyeshadow. False eyelashes, plastic facial gems, and pearl powder are often added to this. Platform shoes and brightly-coloured outfits complete the ganguro look. Also typical of ganguro fashion are tie-dyed sarongs, miniskirts, stickers on the face, and many bracelets, rings, and necklaces. Researchers in the field of Japanese studies believe that ganguro is a form of revenge against traditional Japanese society due to resentment of neglect, isolation, and constraint of Japanese society. This is their attempt at individuality, self-expression, and freedom, in open defiance of school standards and regulations.  But nothing explains better fashion than pictures so have a look and that wild girls.

 

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