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TOP Japanese Fashion Designers

There are many Japanese fashion designers, but these two designers are among TOP fashion designers.

YOHJI YAMAMOTO

• Born in Japan in 1943
• Graduate of the prestigious Keio University and Bunka Fashion College (Bunkafukuso Gakuin)
• In 1970, he began designing women's clothing
• Achieved greater recognition after showing his spring/summer collection in Paris in 1983.
• Use of a simple palette - black, navy and white - with occasional splashes of color
• ONLY ONE - Japanese fashion designer awarded the French Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettre
• WINNER of the Mainichi Fashion Grand Prize in 1986.

Example of his COLLECTIONS that have Japanese elements in his design

JUNYA WATANABE

• A graduate of Bunka Fashion College
• e debuted as an independent designer in 1994 and has his first show in Paris three years later.
• He uses more obviously Oriental motifs and "introduces the essence of the kimono" into his designs
• like to increase the popularity of the kimono among young Japanese
• his designs are available in the US and Europe as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan.

JAPANESE STREET FASHION

• Gothic Lolita
• Cosplay
• Maid Cafe
• Kogal
• Ganguro
• Dekora @Fruit Fashion

GOTHIC LOLITA

Gothic Lolita - Gothic Lolita is a distinctive Japanese fashion style. Gothic Lolita is often seen in places like Harajuku.

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 aims to imitate the look of Victorian porcelain dolls. Gothloli's name and origin is a combination of lolita fashion—appearing deliberately cute to the point of looking childish—and certain styles found within gothic fashion.

The style started as a youth subculture sometime around 1997-98 and became a well-established genre available in various boutiques and some major department stores by aro und 2001. Some observers consider it a reaction to the "Kogal" aesthetic.Gothic

Lolita is one of the subcategories of the Lolita look. Other categories include "Classic Lolita" (more traditional, light-coloured, also more mature-looking) and "Sweet Lolita" (childish pastel-coloured clothes, lots of lace and ribbons).

COSPLAY

Cosplay (コスプレ, kosupure) is the Japanese word for dressing up like a Japanese character. Cosplay is popular in places like Tokyo's Harajuku district.
The word Cosplay from the joining of two English words "costume" and "play". Typically Japanese will dress as their favourite character from manga, anime, video games, J Rock or pop band or movie.Cosplay involves dressing in very elaborate costumes, normally made by themselves, with other people who like to do the same thing.
While the cosplay is normally done for themselves, it has become a public spectacle in places like

Harajuku, where interested members of public,
mainly western tourist, come to take pictures. At times there can be more photographers than there are cosplayers.

MAID CAFE

Maid Cafe - Sometimes referred to as Meido cafe or Cosplay restaurants. Article includes Maid Cafe pictures and locations.Since around 2000, cafes called "maid cafe" have opened in Akihabara and more recently a few in Shinjuku plus others in major Japanese cities like Osaka and some others around the world.

In maid cafes, typical manga-style maids serve tea and cakes. In Japanese these are referred to as "Maido" or "Meido" cafe. When a customer enters the café, the maids typically give a flattering greeting such as "Welcome home, Master in order to play the role of a house servant.

Unlike "ordinary" cafés, maids serve customers as if they were their masters. For example, staff sometimes kneel on the ground to mix sugar or milk in teas or other drinks. The purpose of the maid cafés and their service is to make customers feel at home and relaxed. Although exemplary customer service is typical of Japan, maid cafés take special care to pamper their patrons.

KOGAL

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 their disposable incomes through unique tastes in fashion, music, and social activity. In general, the kogal "look" roughly approximates a sun-tanned California Valley girl, and indeed, the similarities between the two extend to the linguistic, for both subcultures have derived entire sets of slang terms (コギャル語 "ko-gyaru-go").

Kogals are not to be confused with the ganguro subculture, although they are similar.

Kogals are known for wearing platform boots, a miniskirt, copious amounts of makeup, hair coloring (usually blond), artificial suntans, and designer accessories. If in school uniform, the look typically includes skirts pinned very high and loose socks (large baggy socks that go up to the knee).

GANGURO
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 Ikebukuro districts of Tokyo are the centre of ganguro fashion.The basic look consists of bleached hair, a deep tan, both black and white eyeliners, false eyelashes, platform shoes (usually sandals or boots), and brightly colored outfits. Also typical of the "Ganguro Gal" look are cell phones covered with purikura stickers, tie-dyed sarongs, mini-skirts, hibiscus flower hairpins, and lots of bracelets, rings and necklaces.

DEKORA @FRUIT FASHION

KIMONO HISTORY

Traditional clothing of the Edo period, (1600-1868), included the kimono and obi as we know them today. The obi did not, however, become a prominent part of a woman’s ensemble until the mid Edo period. It was then that designers, weavers and dyers all focused their talent on creating a longer, wider and more elaborate obi. Obi measurement was then standardised to 360cm long by 30cm wide.Edo fashion was influenced by the design and style that courtesans and entertainers wear.

Women of the samurai class continued to wear the simpler kosode kimono, tied together with an obi made of braided cords. Outside the samurai class, women experimented with a more elaborate kimono - the furisode, which is often seen on the Kabuki stage. Characterised by long, flowing sleeves, the furisode kimono was accented by a large, loosely tied obi.For many years, the obi bow was tied either at the front or on the side. By the mid-Edo period, the obi bow was tied in the back position. It was said that this style started in the mid-1700s when a Kabuki actor, imitating a young girl, came on stage with his obi tied in the back. Another reason that the back position became more acceptable was that the sheer bulk of the wider obi became too cumbersome to be positioned in the front of the kimono.The Meiji era, (1868-1912) witnessed a revolution in the textile industry with the advent of electric weaving looms and chemical dying techniques from the West. During this time, a woman's kimono ceased to be worn in the free-flowing style of the earlier days. The new fashion was to tuck the kimono at the waist to adjust the length of the kimono to the woman's height. These tucks and folds were visible and became part of the art of tying the obi.

Wedding Kimono

Uchikake*~~The Wedding kimono~~*

For a young women having a traditional Japanese wedding. They wear the most gorgeous Kimono called Uchikake.If you look carefully you will be able to see how the Uchikake is very long and would touch the ground if it was not held up. Unlike traditional Western wedding dresses, that have train or material that flows along the ground at the back of the dress, the Uchikake is long all the way around. The bride has to be assisted by one of her attendants to walk in this kimono.

KIMONO PATTERNS

sodetsuke : kimono armhole
miyatsukuchi : opening under the sleeve
furi : sleeve below the armhole
ushiromigoro : back man section
fuki : hem gaurd
yuki :sleeve length
sode - guchi : sleeve opening
sode : sleeve
tamoto : sleeve pouch
eri : collar
doura : upper lining
okumi : front inside panel
maemigoro : front main panel
susomawashi : lower lining
Tomoeri : over collar
Uraeri : inner collar

HOW TO WEAR KIMONO

Firstly, always put the socks first. This is because it is difficult to bend to put on the socks after wear the full kimono and the belt.

Next step is to put on the undergarment slips which calles juban that consisting of a white cotton top and skirt.

Before put on the kimono, make sure that the back steam is centered.

Wrap the right side of the kimono over the body (for both men and women), and the overlap it with the left side. Remember that, the right on top of the left is only used to dress a corpse for burial.

Then, adjust the white slip collar to show evenly around the neck just under the kimono collar.

But don't worry if the kimono is too long, because that how it supposed to be.

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