During the mid-90’s, one of Japan’s main controversies involved a group of young girls who would cause trouble around the country. These teenagers would usually do radical things such as skip classes, smoke in public, pollute the environment by throwing their cigarette butts everywhere and even seduce middle-aged men into financing for their whimsical expenses. Subsequently, they also had their own unique and scandalous fashion sense that distinguished them from the rest of the youth. These kinds of girls are known as Kogals.
Kogals are known to be the first kind of gal (or gyaru) that scaled Japan. They are the ones who have paved way for other kinds of gals now, such as the Ganguro Gal and Hime Gal, to enter the Japanese fashion scene. The clothes and the characteristics of the Kogals have been the basis for these new subcategories that is why Kogals are hard to obliterate from the minds of the Japanese until today.
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No Japanese company has taken the world by storm like BAPE and its playful Hip-Hop clothes. Nigo’s company, which started in 1993, already has shops in many of the world’s major cities, including New York, London, Los Angeles, and, of course, Tokyo. But Nigo doesn’t plan to stop there. “BAPE is a lifestyle company, including music, hair, even food. Everything you need to live,” says the fashion guru. He has already started his spread of the brand with a record label, a salon, and even a cafe, but Nigo has more in store for his Planet of the Apes inspired brand.
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After seeing the vending machine disguise, I reckon this will seem a bit tame, mundane even. Ms. Tsukioka, designer of the vending machine disguise, came up with even MORE wacky ideas. The first is the fire-hydrant bag designed to camouflage children.
See the cute grade-schooler transform himself into a fire hydrant.
I got this weird feeling the Japanese love their vending machines. Don’t believe me? Well, let me present my evidences.
Exhibit A:
Ms. Tsukioka, a Japanese experimental fashion designer, has thought of a disguise against perverts and hoodlums. One of those vending machines is a hiding human. Can you spot it? I guess good ol’ pepper spray isn’t good enough these days. Just take heed, if it’s a psycho-killer chasing you down the street, this won’t help at all. See the transformation, from a human to a vending machine, in the pictures below.
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The combination of rice and miso soup is a common Japanese breakfast menu. I could just imagine men walking into the kitchen, tousle-haired and half-awake, gobbling down their food without much thought. These, however, could produce the opposite effect.
Introducing “My Chopsticks Bra” by Triumph Japan.
The fashion trends in Japan are almost changing daily: New clothes are combined with older ones; the same goes for accessories and other decorations. But if you always want to be up-to-date there’s one website that can help you with the newest fashion styles in Tokyo’s biggest districts.
Tokyo Street Style - Style-Arena
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Their make-up is bright and striking, their clothes are adorned with simple accessories or more extravagant things. Most of them are wearing wigs and some of them are even holding plastic weapons in their hands: Cosplayers can be seen in most parts of the bigger cities all over the world. Japan was (of course) the first country which started the real cosplay trend; now cosplayers are gathering in places like Harajuku or Akihabara and they are even presenting their own events since a few years. The Comiket, the world’s largest comic convention, is also the most famous gathering point for cosplayers.
The girl’s fluttering her long eyelashes when she stares into the mirror in front of her. She combs through her dyed brown hair with one hand; her fake nails are coloured in a bright pink, with pearls and diamonds on top of them. After the girl stands up, she grabs her pink handbag and her glittering cell phone, takes one last look into the mirror and leaves the room.
The Harajuku district comprises of a variety of teenagers whose styles of fashion are anything but boring. Every weekend the vicinity would be filled with girls and boys clad in frilly, colorful layered outfits that may sometimes be an eyesore but are cute and creative most of the time. Yet out of all the fashion trends that can be seen in this microcosm of Japan, one of them stands out, mostly because of the lack of any other color but black. This trend is called the Gothic Lolita look.
The Gothic Lolita fashion is most popular among women, and females who like to abide by this sense of style would often go out in dark layered outfits that look like they were just imported from the era of the 1920’s in the West. This look is often described as one that would often be seen in old vampire movies for corsets and long frilly dresses are the staples to a Lolita closet. Headdresses are also essential to the Lolita wardrobe, and the only thing needed to complete the whole look is a pair of black platform shoes.
Platform shoes, miniskirts, dyed hair and dark skin. A group of ganguro gals is crossing the huge junction in Shibuya, laughing and talking while their heels are clicking on the even pavement. The girls are deeply tanned; their dyed blonde, silver or brown hair is adorned with hairpieces and sparkly slides. White lipstick and eye shadow is used as make up, combined with false eyelashes and black eyeliner. Their skirts and tops are in bright colours like pink or yellow and their jewellery is shining in the sunlight.
Ganguro (“gan” = face and “guro” = black) is one of the ‘older’ fashion trends among young Japanese women (and sometimes young men as well) which occurred around the year 2000. Ganguro gals are mostly hanging around Shibuya and Ikebukuro which are also known as the most famous fashion districts in Tokyo.
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