Gwen Stefani has a hit song called “Harajuku Girls” that sings the praises of a vibrant Tokyo pedestrian street scene featuring eye-popping teens strolling in popular Japanese labels such as Super Lovers, Bathing Ape and Hysteric Glamour. Do I think they look ridiculous? Sure, but I’m not a 15-year-old kid trying to make an individual fashion statement. Say what you will, but these kids are radically different. They’ve now been captured in a book of street fashions — “Fresh Fruits” — by Shoichi Aoiki, a Japanese photographer.
These risky young fashionistas are having a blast by no longer following Western trends. Instead, they’re blazing their own paths to accceptance by combining secondhand clothes, alternative fashions and customized obi, kimono and geta.
Read the whole story titled The “Tokyo A-Go-Go” from the San Francisco Chronicle.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Im a fruit..and i live in the states. The Fruits Fashion is spreding fast.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:01 pm
me and my sister are fruits!! we also live in the states
February 7th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
i luv the teen scene in japan, their sense of style is ahmazing, i adore it!!