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Comme des Garçons garments on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Although Japanese street fashion is known for its mix-match of different styles and genres, and there is no single sought-after brand that can consistently appeal to all fashion groups, the huge demand created by the fashion-conscious population is fed and supported by Japan's vibrant fashion industry.
Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into outfits that depict distinctive ways of dressing (styles and trends) as signifiers of social status, self-expression, and group belonging.
Tokyo Fashion Week is particularly known as the world's leading showcase for avant-garde and experimental fashion, as well as Tokyo streetwear. [8] [9] [10] It is the largest fashion week in Asia. [4] Since 2019, Rakuten, Japanese technology conglomerate, has been the title sponsor branding the event as the Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo. [6]
Photograph of a man and woman wearing traditional clothing, taken in Osaka, Japan. There are typically two types of clothing worn in Japan: traditional clothing known as Japanese clothing (和服, wafuku), including the national dress of Japan, the kimono, and Western clothing (洋服, yōfuku) which encompasses all else not recognised as either national dress or the dress of another country.
Historically, Japanese culture has portrayed feminine men and masculine women in the context of theatre and performance, involving cross-dressing, men performing women's roles in kabuki (known as onnagata), and all-female performance companies such as the Takarazuka Revue. [2] Unisex fashion for men has also been expressed through anime and manga.
Ganguro (ガングロ) is an alternative fashion trend among young Japanese women which peaked in popularity around the year 2000 and evolved from gyaru.. The Shibuya and Ikebukuro districts of Tokyo were the centres of ganguro fashion; it was started by rebellious youth who contradicted the traditional Japanese concept of beauty; pale skin, dark hair and neutral makeup tones.
At the height of the bubble economy of Japan in the late 1980s, inspired by European fashion trends seen earlier in the decade, women began wearing tight bodycon dresses and suits that emphasized their body lines. This style was mostly worn by female college students and office ladies, and the word "gal" was used to refer to women of the ...
Popeye was started in 1976 as a male version of an an, a women's magazine. [1] [4] [5] It is successor of two publications, Ski Life and Made in U.S.A. [6] The first issue of Popeye appeared in July 1976 [7] which featured the dominant fashion trends in Los Angeles. [6] [8] Yoshihisa Kinameri is the launch editor of the magazine. [6]