Visual kei -ヴィジュアル系-

Visual kei is also known as " Glam Rock" , is a fashion style straight out of Harajuku in Tokyo, Japan.
Also Visual kei refers to a movement among Japanese rock (Jrock ) musicians
Influence of Visual kei can be seen in the 70s, but the style would not be recognized until the 80s.  That being said, it would not be until the 90s that Visual Kei would begin to spread across the globe.

Kei means "style", meaning is a "Visual style" :D
The music rangs from eightes goth rock, to heavy metal to punk and usally a combo of three of them.
Visual kei is  characterized by the use of striking make-up, elaborate hair style and dazzling clothing.

Dolly Kei :

The Dolly kei is a recent fashion style, was developed by a student in modeling Hitomi Nomura.
Hitomi Nomura is the creator of the Dolly brand, she created her own boutique named Grimoire in Shinbuya Tokyo..
Such a magical place as the White rabbit place in Alice in Wonderland.. a one kind place you can ever see.....

Dolly kei or dolly style / fashion is a Japanese fashion inspired by vintage, very old clothes of eastern Europe.
Takes inspiration from antique dolls, the dolly kei uses a lot of  sumptuous jewels tone like the ruby red, deep violet and malachite green.
Is more a natural  look that has no emphasis on luxury, however the fabrics and materials are themselves more luxurious, with lots of rich velvet, raw silk and delicate embroidery with golden thread.

Lolita´s

Lolita fashion emphasizes Victorian-style and Edwardian fashion girl´s clothing and often aims to imitate the look of Victorian porcelain dolls.
The Rococo period has also been defined as an incluence of Goth lolita.

Goth lolita:

Also called GothlLoli, is a subcategory of the Lolita fashion , a street fashion among japanese teenage girls and also  in young woman and men.
The style began inthe early 1990´s and as with Western Goth , is influenced by music in japan, Visual bands such as Dir End Grey and Malice Mizer inspire this look

The iconic shpae of a Gothic lolita drees is high collared and buttoned up to mirror than prim and proper Victorian look, skirts are knee length and very full, with added volume from petticoats.
The look is finished off with accessories such as Victorian style bonnets, vintage inspired brooches, lace parasol and lace or black gloves, As with most Lolita look, knee hight socks are popular finishing touch to the look.

Sweet lolita :

Also called ama-loli, as with the Gothic Lolita is inspired by Victorian but also inspired by Edwardian looks .
Sweet Lolita look is pastel colors and fantasy themes, Alice in wonderland is the most popular inspiration source for this look.
Accessories feature pom poms, bows, and crowns.

The look of a sweet Lolita is inspired by anything childish, cute and princess like.

Punk Lolita :

This look is different of the Sweet and Goth Lolita´s styles,
It is influenced by the Brithish punk movement and the fashion culture in Camden, Lodon and Brithish designer Vivienne Westwood.

The look combines the Victorian elements of the Gothic Lolita look, but toughens it up with embellishments with safety pins, chains and tartan details.

Guro Lolita :

Guro Lolita or " Gore Lolita" is exactly what it sounds.. gory..
Guro Lolita is style of Lolita that tries to portray a broken- dolly sort of look,

A Guro Lolita outfit can really be pulled off in any color, but the white is execelent  color if you want to have some blood splatters ...

Wa Lolita :

Is often recognized by the Kimono. esque look of the outfits.
Wa Lolita involves long sleeves and obi that are taken from kimono / yukata outfits and fused with the bell-shaped skirt
of Lolita. Wa Lolita fabrics are often bery extravagant like most kimono prints.

Although this style is quite different from usual Lolita styles, modesty is still a large part of this style , and the skirt should be
a reasonable length for Lolita.

Traditional Japanese kanzashi or flower hair clips looks lovely with that style.

Sweet Lolita

 Gothic Lolita

Punk Lolita

Guro Lolita

Wa Lolita

Decora & Kawaii

Decora know as " Decoration"  is one of the many japanese styles adopted by young japanese girls.
The decora fashion consists of putting on brights colors and hairs clips with bows.
Lots of coloful accesories .. (more accesories they  can use the better will be)
It include plastic , furry toys and lots of jewelry.. witch stick together and make noise when they walk..

Kawaii  means " cute / pretty "  witch has become the most popular aspect of japanese culture, entertaiment,
food, clothing, toys, personal appearance, behavoir,
The kawaii style generally releates cloths witch appears to be made for  children, or clothes that accentuates the cuteness.
Using pastel or bright colors , often include oversize toys or bags featuring anime characters..

Ganguro style -ガングロ-

Is a Japanes fashion style where young girls have dark skin and blond hair..
it began to be popular in the late 1990  to the early 2000s.
The Shinbuya and Ikebukuro districts  of Tokyo are the center of the ganguro fashion.

The basic look consists to have a deep tan, bleached hair, both black and white eyeliners,
false eyelashes, bright colors outfits, platfom shoes, mini skirts, rings, necklaces, flower hairpins.
Also to be a typical Ganguro girl is to have your cell phone coverd up with purikura stickers ^o^

The main colors for make up for a Ganguru´s girls it to use is multicoloured pastel eyes shadows and tiny metalic or glittery adhesive around the bottom rim of the eye sockets, white lipstick .. using bright pastel colors will give more  the contrast and you will get a deeper tan.

The Ganguro fashion style is still  a mistery where it came from...

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As you could see.. my passion for J-Rock and all nippon stuff,  I wanted to share with you some of Japanese street fashion... I will put more information about the different kinds of japanes street fashion: Visual kei, Ganguru, lolita , kogai, dolly lolita...

Just for info Japanese fashion began in the 19th century with the western cloths . by the begging of the 21th century it began to be called street fashion.. is to costumize outfits with tradiccional and brands outfits.. many of them they are home-made.

At these moment there are  a lot of diferent kinds of street fashion, some of them they dress like there favorite music group, for others is a way to be different from other people, to have there own and unique identity.

                                      

Now what kind of street fashion are you?.. Visual, Ganguru, Lolita ??...

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