As we posted last week, Carousel of Crowns recently celebrated its 2nd Anniversary. Check out some of our highlights and personal favorites below. Best Fashion Snap Real Lolita Style Lydia’s pick for her favorite fashion snap from the past year is Courtney’s Mori-Girl-inspired Lolita outfit at the Angelic Pretty RinRin tea party event in San [...]

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Wearing their signature Kokuyoku Sumire X Chantilly checkerboard half bonnet, Kokusyoku Sumire gave the attendees of Fantaisies dans les Monde des Rêves an intimate concert with Sachi in white and Yuka in black Chantilly-designed dresses . Performing in San Jose, California on May 29, 2010 at the same time as Fanime Con, Sachi sported  a white wig and Yuka a purple [...]

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On Fanime Saturday/Day 2 of Fantaisies dans les Monde des Rêves, Umi and I both wore boater hats, our favorite recent trend. We thought the hats would help people find us, as we’d been asked by Oneesan Inc. to take street snaps that might get published in Kera magazine. Did I take your picture on [...]

posted by Lydia
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While the main event was all happening on May 29th, in truth the Fantaisies dans les Monde des Rêves festivities started on May 28th with the opening of the Magical Boutique and lasted until May 31st when the boutique closed. On the first day, the Magical Boutique was rather calm with just a select number of [...]

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Fantaisies dans le Monde des Rêves main event, May 29, 2010 in San Jose, played host to a one-of-a-kind event with the first ever Miss Gothic & Lolita USA pageant. When it was first announced, the assumption was that the pageant would be an Internet popularity contest played out in real life, especially with the much [...]

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Last but not least in our fashion snaps from Fantaisies dans le Monde des Rêves is the organizer herself, Lynda Leung! Name: Lynda From: Bay Area, CA How long have you been wearing gothic & lolita fashion? Since time started to flow, and it seems like it’s frozen. Style or theme of the day: Goth [...]

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Name: Matsuki From: San Francisco, CA How long have you been wearing gothic & lolita fashion? Since 2004. Style or theme of the day: Chocolate bars! What’s your favorite part of this outfit? Dress (Angelic Pretty Melty Chocolate JSK in mint x brown), because of the cute buttons. Name: Ashley-Marie From: Los Angeles, CA How [...]

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Name: Laura From: Denver, CO How long have you been wearing gothic & lolita fashion? 4 years Style or theme of the day: Stars. What’s your favorite part of this outfit? The skirt. Also, wearing something for the first time. It’s exciting to put on something new! Share this:FacebookEmailDiggStumbleUponReddit

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Coming at you this week, fashion snaps and short interviews from Fantaisies dans le Monde des Rêves… Name: Yunko From: CA How long have you been wearing gothic & lolita fashion? 2-3 years Style or theme of the day: Kuro, cute. What’s your favorite part of this outfit? The dress. Name: Alex From: Los Angeles, [...]

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Umi and I were in San Jose this weekend to check out the lolita scene at Fanime and to bring you coverage from Fantaisies dans le Monde des Rêves, a gothic and lolita “extravaganza eleganza” (as RuPaul would say) put on by Oneesan Inc. We’ll have lots of photos and fashion coming your way in [...]

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Tags: fanime 2010, Fantaisies dans le Monde des Rêves, real people style
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