Comments on: Harajuku Vs Cosplay – Japanese Fashion Faceoff

By: Munthenya

Munthenya — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:22:36 +0000

The first red-head is in fact a cosplay of a person in a J-rock band called Dir en Grey. His stage name is Die, because it is pronounced the same way as the first part of his name which is “Daisuke”.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:49:13 +0000

There’s way more to japanese fashion than this trash. These harajuku styles like cosplay, ganguro, and loli arn’t even the norm and seen as wierd. The only people that think this stuff is objectively japanese fashion are the non-japanese anime freaks with biased views.

Want to know real japanese fashion? Think Burberry or maybe YSL. In fact, go to dowtown Chicago or New York and just look around.

By: Akuma

Akuma — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:37:57 +0000

I would just like to point out, that unlike in America, anime is not all that popular among the general population of japan and to have an interest in anime makes you really “uncool” over there.

So I figure that most of the cosplaying done in Harajuku is likely visual kei costumes.

By: Exticie Fashion

Exticie Fashion — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:01:38 +0000

Harajuku is a fashion district near Tokyo. Within the district are many styles of harajuku fashion, ranging from the cosplay (as seen in the above pictures), gothic lolita (which in itself has a multitude of sub divisions), Kawaii and many more. Once you know all the different styles (and there are HEAPS) then picking one inspiration from another becomes simple. Actually finding out what they all are is the hard part.

By: ma'ire

ma'ire — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:20:55 +0000

very artistic. i like how they show their own sense of style.

but i dont have the patience or time to think about, then apply and take off all of that makeup in just a day.

it frazzles me.

By: Elaina

Elaina — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:31:01 +0000

@ Jessicka:

Thank you for recognizing that. Not that I have anything against people posting about Harajuku “fashion”, but I cannot stand it when people speak about the subject without specifically mentioning Visual Kei. It’s like trying to talk about Heavy Metal without mentioning any band names… You just wouldn’t know what your talking about.

By: danY_z

danY_z — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:05:39 +0000

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By: Jessicka

Jessicka — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:35:10 +0000

Just to let you know, the two redheads are cosplaying as a guitarist named Daisuke (AKA Die) from the band Dir en Grey.

By: stefania

stefania — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:00:49 +0000

omg.

most.. i like the last one…

and yes.. they are breathing walking blah blah pieces of art.

By: Paola

Paola — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:07:43 +0000

really impresive!!! i’m a fashion designer student and i’m doing some research about harajuku fashion, but i have found that lots of people think that harajuku fashion is only inspired by Anime and Manga, do you think that’s true? could you give me some examples? i would be very grateful if you could help this latin fashion desginer who wishes to design for harajuku people

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