Japanese Street Urban Fashion

Friday, October 03, 2008

Harajuku Station, where all this starting.

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Harajuku Station, Tokyo, Japan, originally uploaded by ZiggyB. Harajuku Station (原宿駅) is a station on the JR Yamanote Line located in Shibuya Tokyo, adjacent to Yoyogi Park. Harajuku Station takes its name from the area on its eastern side, Harajuku.The Chiyoda...

Japanese Fashion The Yukata

7:00 AM fashion, kimono, yukata 3 comments

y.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The party is over..., originally uploaded by manganite. The Yukata is a casual light cotton kimono for wearing in summer. Yukatas normally have very brightly coloured designs on them. Today these kimonos are mainly worn to the traditional Bon-Odori and summer festivals....

Japan Fashion The Kogal Style

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } kogal fast food fashion in Shibuya, originally uploaded by colodio. Kogals (コギャル kogyaru, lit. "small/child girl") are a subculture of girls and young women in urban Japan, one of several types of so-called gals. They are characterized by conspicuously displaying...

Japanese Fashion a Gothic Lolita Style

6:42 AM fashion, gothic, lolita, style Leave a Comment

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } MFashion Gothic Lolita @ JapanEx, originally uploaded by Bento Dan. Gothic Lolita or "GothLoli" (ゴスロリ, gosurori; sometimes alternatively "Loli-Goth") is a youth fashion among Japanese teenagers and young women. It emphasizes Victorian-style girl's clothing and often...

Japan Fashion Style Called Ganguro

6:24 AM fashion, ganguro, manga, shibuya Leave a Comment

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 26oct-shibuya20, originally uploaded by marylouc. Ganguro (ガングロ), literally "black-face", is a Japanese fashion trend among many Japanese girls which peaked in popularity from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, an outgrowth of chapatsu hair dyeing. The Shibuya and...

Shine Harajuku

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Shine, originally uploaded by Giant Ginkgo. Shine HarajukuDaily Bike Sexy Babe Girls | Find Auto Parts | Web Design Template | New Nokia Pho...

Harajuku Girls - Doll

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Harajuku cosplay 1

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Harajuku cosplay 1, originally uploaded by jeremiah. a really nice picture, all the colors seem to match, the hair, the shirt, the jacket ... oh that reminds me of something .. have you ever seen male harajuku cosplayers ? sometimes its difficult to point out whether...

Hello Kitty Cosplay Girl harajuku tokyo

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } My favorite cosplay girl, originally uploaded by Alexandra Roberts. This photo was taken outside Harajuku Station in Tokyo, Japan. This was a sunny saturday afternoon while the cosplay gang was out and about. This girl's hello kitty outfit was amazin...

What have you done with your eye?

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harajuku sweetie

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Harajuku Girls Tokyo Singing Group

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Harajuku Girls　（原宿の女の子）, originally uploaded by little-wings. Harajuku is a place in Tokyo where, on Sundays, Japanese youth will gather to strut their stuff wearing all sorts of odd clothing combinations. Additionally, there are sometimes informal music performances,...

Golden Hair Harajuku Girls

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For general fashion and subculture in Harajuku, Japan

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } メイド, originally uploaded by don.lee. "Harajuku Girls" is also the title of 7th track of Gwen Stefani's 2004 album, Love. Angel. Music. Baby."Harajuku girl" redirects here. For general fashion and subculture in Harajuku, Japan, see Harajuku.The Harajuku Girls performing...

harajuku in the rain

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Harajuku

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harajuku boys Harajuku Station in Tokyo.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } harajuku boys (tokyo), originally uploaded by xthylacine. A couple of guys in their Sunday's finest pose for pictures near Harajuku Station in Tokyo. Many teenagers and young adults congregate around the station and its adjoining park on Sundays to show off their...

Goth-Loli Fashion Harajuku

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Harajuku I, originally uploaded by little-wings. I visited Harajuku today, not my first time there by far but my first time on a Sunday (when all the Japanese kids dress up and promonade on the bridge by the Meiji Shrine). It wasn't actually as crowded as I thought...

Harajuku Girls kids and teenagers dressed like this

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Harajuku Girls, originally uploaded by markokon. "Harajuku Girls" yes... this is what some of them look like. Basically every Sunday if you go to Harajuku station just outside of the famous area called Harajuku you'll find kids and teenagers dressed like this and...

Harajuku Girls 13

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Harajuku Girls 13, originally uploaded by animefx. Another one of my favorites from my Harajuku Girls series of photos. This will probably be my last from this series until I'm able to go back to Japan. I hope you liked the...

Harajuku Phose

11:21 AM cosplay, harajuku, phose 1 comment

A collection of Harajuku inspired crisp, preppy separates has an easy feel. Fine seersucker blouses and cropped boxy blazers appear in multi coloured ticking stripes. Capes and oversize cardigans are layered over clean cut gingham shell-blouses and skinny and carrot leg jeans. 1970’s style blue jeans, slouchy shorts and ra-ra skirts work with cute logo Ts in young, primary colours while 50s’ style summer dresses add sophistication. A...

Harajuku : Cosplay Venues

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Cosplay can be seen at public events such as video game shows, as well as at dedicated cosplay parties at nightclubs or amusement parks. It is not unusual for Japanese teenagers to gather with like-minded friends in places like Tokyo's Harajuku district to engage in cosplay. Since 1998, Tokyo's Akihabara district has contained a large number of cosplay cafés, catering to devoted anime and cosplay fans. The waitresses at such cafés dress as game or anime characters; maid (or meido) costumes are particularly popular.Possibly...

Gundam Costume

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This Gundam Strike Freedom Cosplay is awesome.So what is Cosplay anyway?Cosplay, short for "costume play", is a Japanese subculture centered on dressing as characters from manga, anime, tokusatsu, and video games, and, less commonly, Japanese live action television shows, fantasy movies, Japanese pop music bands, Visual Kei, fantasy music stories (such as stories by the band Sound Horizon), and novels. However, in some circles, "cosplay" has been expanded to mean simply wearing a costume.In Japan, "cosplay" as a hobby is usually...

Latest costume-play offerings in Japan.

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School boy cafes, maid casinos as the latest costume-play offerings in Japan. School girls have a well-documented following, but what about the boys? It turns out that school boys are building up a following of their own: since opening last fall, the school boy themed café, Edelstein, has been filled to capacity every weekend and has seen repeat customers visit upwards of 40 times in just a few short months.[lin...