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TOKYO FASHION FEATURE: SHIBUYA-KEI, COSPLAY, HARAJUKU OSHARE STYLE. JAPANESE HOST HAIR, CRAZY HAIRSTYLES IN ASIA.


TOKYO FASHION FEATURE: SHIBUYA-KEI, COSPLAY, HARAJUKU OSHARE STYLE. JAPANESE HOST HAIR, CRAZY HAIRSTYLES IN ASIA, asian hair inspiration photos, TOkyo hair salons, cosmetology competitions, hairdressing winners, best hair styles awards, j-style celeb assembly, dokumo Dokusha-models, tokyo candoll, j-style celebs, street fashion Coordinates

Yesterday, a neat new fashion site launched: Tokyo Candoll. The Japanese project collaborates with your favorite Gothic Lolita Punk brands, and introduces popular Gal models. I was approached to be featured on the site as a “reader model” (I’m honored!). You can see me in the “J-style celeb” section here; my interview responses are below.

Name: La Carmina
Occupation / dream for the future: Harajuku fashion and J-pop culture author/blogger/designer
Hobby: Attending to the many needs of my Scottish Fold cat, Basil Farrow
Shopping area: I spend most of my wardrobe budget on secondhand Gothic Lolita Punk fashions from Closet Child.
Favorite brand: h.NAOTO, Black Peace Now, Victorian Maiden
Favorite food: Izakaya
Favorite color: Goth black, Mana-sama blue, blood red, empress purple
Policy of Oshare: If you look like an undead Marie Antoinette, you’re on the right path.
Favorite Japanese: My Tokyo spooks! My friends in Japan are crazy and inspiring.

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Tokyo Candoll’s sister site, Music Japan Plus, recently highlighted several clothing boutiques in Marui One. The Shinjuku department store houses your favorite Gothic, Lolita, punk rock and street brands. (You can see photos of all the stores in my gargatuan Goth and Lolita shopping guide.)

Atelier Boz is one of my favorite elegant Gothic aristocrat brands, especially the items for men. “This particular shop has constantly strived toward recreating a ‘classic, traditional European’ style. They sell beautiful items that have elegant forms and dashing, ‘knightly’ qualities. For the spring season they are planning to provide a wider variety of skirts, pumps, blouses and vests in various sizes.” Click here for more images of Atelier Boz, Moi-meme-moitie, Kera Angel and other brands in Marui One.

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“What would happen if Alice of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ finds herself in ‘Pirate-land’? That is the main concept for this shop selling wild, decorative and stylish clothing.” (You can also find Alice and the Pirates at Laforet; click to see my photos.)

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h.NAOTO dominates the sixth floor of 0101, as you can see in this post. “In addition to brands providing punk, gothic and Lolita items, brands such as ‘HONEY’ that sell SEXY & CUTE clothing for women, and ‘Sixh.’ that designs VISUAL & MODE-kei items for both men and women are well worth a look.”

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“When you were little, did you ever wish you could try out the very cute lace frill dresses with lots of ribbons worn by princesses in picture books? Here’s a brand that will help you fulfill those childhood dreams” — Angelic Pretty. I photographed the cute Marui boutique in this post.

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Hyphen Magazine, a San Francisco-based publication about Asian-American culture, interviewed me for a piece about Japanese theme restaurants (above). If you’re intrigued, you can find out more about Akihabara maid cafes my book, Crazy Wacky Theme Restaurants: Tokyo.

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Finally, some bits and pieces of J-pop fun…

† My friend Maria uploaded a great video of Kaya performing at Tokyo Decadance, wearing a white Lolita dress. Kawaii.
† I found some mind-blowing Japan hairstyle photos on Flickr. The neon colors and spiky swirly styling are insane. (Above are some winning hairstyles from Tokyo Riyo.)
† Hooray for Japanese host hair — these nightclub staff pics are hilarious! Which one is your dream-boi? Mine is the ALIEN.

Have you found my Gothic Lolita Punk store photos and shopping guide to be useful? I’ll be updating it soon!

Song of the Day #333: Sin with Sebastien – Shut up and sleep with me (Because that’s how sinning with Sebastien should be. I kid, I kid!)

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30 Comments

  1. Marie
    Posted March 25, 2010 at 8:26 am | Permalink

    Wey! Looks nice!

    • lacarmina
      Posted March 26, 2010 at 4:45 am | Permalink

      Thank you, dear! There will be more outfit posts on the Japanese website soon.

  2. Emma
    Posted March 25, 2010 at 11:33 am | Permalink

    The guy with the glasses looks super cute until you realise you can’t see his face ’cause his entire arm is in the way. I’ll have to go with the alien too. ;)

  3. Marie
    Posted March 25, 2010 at 8:26 am | Permalink

    Wey! Looks nice!

  4. Emma
    Posted March 25, 2010 at 11:33 am | Permalink

    The guy with the glasses looks super cute until you realise you can't see his face 'cause his entire arm is in the way. I'll have to go with the alien too. ;)

  5. Jessica
    Posted March 26, 2010 at 4:42 am | Permalink

    cool that you are mentioned on that site!

  6. Tofu4me
    Posted March 26, 2010 at 4:42 am | Permalink

    I gave away your cookbooks at my Lolita luncheon as party favours! XD They were a huge hit. Thought you might like to know! <3

    • lacarmina
      Posted March 26, 2010 at 4:52 am | Permalink

      You’re amazing!! Thanks for everything – sounds like a really fun party!

  7. Visudreams
    Posted March 26, 2010 at 4:43 am | Permalink

    speaking of hosts, have you seen The Great Happiness Space? If not, you may be interested in watching it ^-^

    • lacarmina
      Posted March 26, 2010 at 4:52 am | Permalink

      I reserved Great Happiness Space from my local library! Excited to watch it.

  8. heathyr
    Posted March 26, 2010 at 6:33 am | Permalink

    by the way the B movie article was awesome…thanks for the good recommendations!

  9. Jessica
    Posted March 26, 2010 at 4:42 am | Permalink

    cool that you are mentioned on that site!

  10. Tofu4me
    Posted March 26, 2010 at 4:42 am | Permalink

    I gave away your cookbooks at my Lolita luncheon as party favours! XD They were a huge hit. Thought you might like to know! <3

  11. Visudreams
    Posted March 26, 2010 at 4:43 am | Permalink

    speaking of hosts, have you seen The Great Happiness Space? If not, you may be interested in watching it ^-^

  12. lacarmina
    Posted March 26, 2010 at 4:45 am | Permalink

    Thank you, dear! There will be more outfit posts on the Japanese website soon.

  13. lacarmina
    Posted March 26, 2010 at 4:46 am | Permalink

    hahahahh a strategically placed arm. Alien FTW.

  14. lacarmina
    Posted March 26, 2010 at 4:52 am | Permalink

    You're amazing!! Thanks for everything – sounds like a really fun party!

  15. lacarmina
    Posted March 26, 2010 at 4:52 am | Permalink

    I reserved Great Happiness Space from my local library! Excited to watch it.

  16. heathyr
    Posted March 26, 2010 at 6:33 am | Permalink

    by the way the B movie article was awesome…thanks for the good recommendations!

  17. Anonymous
    Posted March 26, 2010 at 3:39 pm | Permalink

    Atelier Boss and h.NAOTO are more my style but dude Alice and the Pirates is PERFECT for a EGL wardrobe xD
    That girl’s hair in the last picture on the left has the same hair as me (except for the front) only most of it is all bright blue… I’M BLU DABADEE DABADAAAI DABADEE DABADAAI

    …I had to do it xD

  18. stillprince
    Posted March 26, 2010 at 3:39 pm | Permalink

    Atelier Boss and h.NAOTO are more my style but dude Alice and the Pirates is PERFECT for a EGL wardrobe xD
    That girl's hair in the last picture on the left has the same hair as me (except for the front) only most of it is all bright blue… I'M BLU DABADEE DABADAAAI DABADEE DABADAAI

    …I had to do it xD

  19. lacarmina
    Posted March 26, 2010 at 8:04 pm | Permalink

    Ahhhhh not the bluuue daba dee daba ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

  20. Moon Maiden 90
    Posted March 27, 2010 at 1:56 am | Permalink

    undead marie antoinette…hmmm…sounds like my kinda style lol

  21. Moon Maiden 90
    Posted March 27, 2010 at 1:56 am | Permalink

    undead marie antoinette…hmmm…sounds like my kinda style lol

  22. Shannon
    Posted March 27, 2010 at 8:00 pm | Permalink

    Love the second hair style awesome!

    http://truequeen.com

  23. Shannon
    Posted March 27, 2010 at 8:00 pm | Permalink

    Love the second hair style awesome!

    http://truequeen.com

  24. lacarmina
    Posted March 28, 2010 at 1:13 am | Permalink

    I wish I could have hair like that!

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