I’m back from Fanime Con! Had a wonderful weekend and ran into a lot of delightfully-dressed lolitas around the San Jose Convention Center. Here are some fashion snaps from the last few days… More photos under the cut…
posted by Lydia
Tags: convention, fanime, fanime 2011, fashion snap, real people style, San Jose
Filed under: Events
Lots of little tidbits about Gothic & Lolita fashion and other Japanese youth fashion have been released lately. If you not had the time to keep up with everything, consider this your crash course. New York-based Tokyo Rebel has announced the shop will be doing an interview with KERA model, AKIRA. Tokyo Rebel will be asking [...]
posted by Umi
Tags: 6% dokidoki, celebrities, Events, fanime, hawaii, London, los angeles, new york, san francisco
Filed under: Entertainment, Events, Music, News
Many Lolita fashionistas consider Kamikaze Girls (aka Shimotsuma Monogatari) the ultimate Lolita movie. A bit odd since although one of the main characters takes Lolita fashion very (arguably too) seriously the movie is moreso about her unlikely friendship with a female gang member. Whether you love this movie or have never had the opportunity to [...]
posted by Umi
Tags: entertainment for the lolita, Events, new people, san francisco
Filed under: Entertainment, Events, Film, New People news
Q-pot has created a Peace Chocolate Band that it is selling for 525 yen to benefit Japanese Earthquake & Tsunami relief. The band comes in four colors – milk chocolate (brown), white chocolate, strawberry chocolate (pink) and mint chocolate (mint green). If you’re in Japan, do pick one up or submit an order online. Unfortunately, [...]
posted by Umi
Tags: celebrities, fashion show, los angeles, Music, paris, seattle, vancouver
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Recently, an h.NAOTO Frill fashion show was held in Tokyo. Frill is the most lolita-centric of h.NAOTO’s various iterations. Members of the Japanese Lolita community had a chance to attend, but as is evident from the video below (and the slow pace), this particular show was held primarily for fashion buyers (the folks with order [...]
posted by Umi
Tags: boystyle, celebrities, Events, gothic lolita, h.Naoto, japan, japanese brands, misako aoki, ouji
Filed under: Events, Fashion
6% DOKIDOKI founder and designer, Sebastian Masuda, has created a project called Mighty Harajuku in the wake of the 8.9 earthquake in Japan, followed by the devastating tsunami and nuclear crisis. The goal of the project is to report how Harajuku is faring in the days and weeks following – in part to counteract the [...]
posted by Umi
Tags: 6% dokidoki, Events, harajuku, japan, japanese brands, san francisco, tokyo
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Pacific Media Expo, otherwise known as PMX, is hosting a Harajuku-themed fashion show on April 2nd at the 2011 Los Angeles Cherry Blossom Festival. PMX is looking for models to participate in the fashion show in their own Harajuku-themed outfits, which include Lolita, Japanese Gothic, Fairy-kei, Mori Girl and more. For additional information on how [...]
posted by Umi
Tags: celebrities, entertainment for the lolita, Events, japanese brands, los angeles, Mori-girl, new york, Vivienne Westwood
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It seems the Japanese Lolita fashion brands have been stepping up their amount of work on special collaborations lately. Various Lolita brands are providing clothing for the Japanese drama, Deka Wanko and recently, most of the Lolita brands at Laforet Harajuku did designs based on the Shiki manga. Normally, these collaborations have had characters, or [...]
posted by Umi
Tags: Atelier Boz, Events, Metamorphose, Putumayo, tokyo
Filed under: Anime, Entertainment, Events, Fashion, Film
On January 30, 2011, Angelic Pretty San Francisco hosted a mini tea party at the Angelic Pretty/Harajuku Hearts store location. All in all, there were 35 Angelic Pretty customers and about six shop staff and volunteers in attendance. The afternoon started off with mingling over beverages (water, hot milk tea or lemonade) and snacks (Pocky, cookies [...]
posted by Umi
Tags: Angelic Pretty, Events, japanese brands, real people style, san francisco, sweet lolita
Filed under: Events
This past weekend, I had a few friends over for a sewing party. I provided a few store bought snacks like Pepperidge Farm cookies and frozen savory puff pastries and made some scones which we paired with Rosehip Butter (totally yummy, I recommend) and cream cheese. All in all, it was a really casual afternoon [...]
posted by Umi
Tags: food
Filed under: Events, Lifestyle, Tea