Fashioning Japanese Subcultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fashioning Japanese Subcultures write by Yuniya Kawamura. This book was released on 2012-08-07. Fashioning Japanese Subcultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An in-depth study of the various Tokyo youth fashion subcultures, from the 1990s to today.
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fashioning Japanese Subcultures write by Yuniya Kawamura. This book was released on 2013-08-15. Fashioning Japanese Subcultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Western fashion has been widely appreciated and consumed in Tokyo for decades, but since the mid-1990s Japanese youth have been playing a crucial role in forming their own unique fashion communities and producing creative styles which have had a major impact on fashion globally. Geographically and stylistically defined, subcultures such as Lolita in Harajuku, Gyaru and Gyaru-o in Shibuya, Age-jo in Shinjuku, and Mori Girl in Kouenji, reflect the affiliation and identities of their members, and have often blurred the boundary between professionals and amateurs for models, photographers, merchandisers and designers. Based on insightful ethnographic fieldwork in Tokyo, Fashioning Japanese Subcultures is the first theoretical and analytical study on Japan's contemporary youth subcultures and their stylistic expressions. It is essential reading for students, scholars and anyone interested in fashion, sociology and subcultures.
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fashioning Japanese Subcultures write by Yuniya Kawamura. This book was released on 2013-08-15. Fashioning Japanese Subcultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Western fashion has been widely appreciated and consumed in Tokyo for decades, but since the mid-1990s Japanese youth have been playing a crucial role in forming their own unique fashion communities and producing creative styles which have had a major impact on fashion globally. Geographically and stylistically defined, subcultures such as Lolita in Harajuku, Gyaru and Gyaru-o in Shibuya, Age-jo in Shinjuku, and Mori Girl in Kouenji, reflect the affiliation and identities of their members, and have often blurred the boundary between professionals and amateurs for models, photographers, merchandisers and designers. Based on insightful ethnographic fieldwork in Tokyo, Fashioning Japanese Subcultures is the first theoretical and analytical study on Japan's contemporary youth subcultures and their stylistic expressions. It is essential reading for students, scholars and anyone interested in fashion, sociology and subcultures.
The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion
The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion write by Yuniya Kawamura. This book was released on 2004-05. The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paris is renowned as the greatest fashion capital in the world. It has a rigid and tightly controlled system that non-western designers have difficulty penetrating. Yet a number of the most influential Japanese designers have broken into this scene and made a major impact. How? Kawamura shows how French fashion has been both disturbed and strengthened by the addition of "outside" forces such as Kenzo Takada, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, and Hanae Mori. She considers many other key questions the fashion industry should be asking itself. Does the system facilitate or inhibit creativity? Has it become preoccupied with the commercial projection of "product images" rather than with the clothing itself? And what direction will French fashion take without Saint Laurent, Miyake and Kenzo? This is the first in-depth study of the Japanese revolution in Paris fashion and raises provocative questions for the future of the industry.
Sneakers
Sneakers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sneakers write by Yuniya Kawamura. This book was released on 2016-01-28. Sneakers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first academic study of sneakers and the subculture that surrounds them. Since the 1980s, American sneaker enthusiasts, popularly known as “sneakerheads” or “sneakerholics”, have created a distinctive identity for themselves, while sneaker manufacturers such as Reebok, Puma and Nike have become global fashion brands. How have sneakers come to gain this status and what makes them fashionable? In what ways are sneaker subcultures bound up with gender identity and why are sneakerholics mostly young men? Based on the author's own ethnographic fieldwork in New York, where sneaker subculture is said to have originated, this unique study traces the transformation of sneakers from sportswear to fashion symbol. Sneakers explores the obsessions and idiosyncrasies surrounding the sneaker phenomenon, from competitive subcultures to sneaker painting and artwork. It is a valuable contribution to the growing study of footwear in fashion studies and will appeal to students of fashion theory, gender studies, sociology, and popular culture.
