On Style Utopias: Harajuku History, Fruits Mag, Ivy League, & Postwar Kawaii
timestampssss 00:00 introduction 03:33 status ambiguity & harajuku re: current trends 08:44 history of japan's modernization re: fashion & culture 13:48 wwii & kensuke ishizu's life as historical parallel 18:35 youth culture's rise & 60s-70s magazines 19:45 harajuku's history & trends over the decades (70s-90s) 25:01 you can have a harajuku too 26:16 fruit's magazine's creation & existence 28:26 inspiration, bricolage, truth, mimicry, & hyperreality 30:47 my feelings & theories on style & social order in the west smh i did that whole disclaimer just to pronounce 'kensuke' wrong the whole time and not realize till i was editing...............my bad y'all, like comment and subscribe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SOCIALS twitter.com/silkslips tumblr.com/silkslips tiktok.com/@silkslips twitch.tv/silkslips ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ REFERENCES & SOURCES ALL RIGHTS RESERVED — PHAIDON PRESS LIMITED (I do not own any of the images, scans, or photos used in this video.) All images sourced from Fruits Magazine were shot by Shoichi Aoki and published in 2005. Featured Song: タイニーリトル・アジアンタム - Shibayan Records Fresh Fruits Magazine (2005) by Shoichi Aoki Fruits Magazine (2001) by Shoichi Aoki Mackinney-Valentin, Maria. Fashioning Identity: Status Ambivalence in Contemporary Fashion. Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. De Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven F. Rendall, 3rd ed., University of California Press, 2011. Richie, Donald. Tokyo: A View of the City. Reaktion Books, 1999. Web. Barthes, Roland. The Fashion System. , Translated by Matthew Ward and Richard Howard, 1st ed, Hill and Wang, 1983. Groom, Amelia. Fashion and Identity in Harajuku. Fashion: The Key Concepts, edited by Jennifer Craik. Berg Publishers, 2009. pp. 159-161. Groom, Amelia. Power Play and Performance in Harajuku. New Voices, 2011. Web. http://dx.doi.org/10.21159/nv.04.09 O’Brien, Suzanne G. “Splitting Hairs: History and the Politics of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan” The Journal of Asian Studies 67.4 (2008): 1309–1339. Web. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002191180800... Interview with Shoichi Aoki https://tokion.jp/en/2021/11/19/shoic... Refinery29 on Harajuku + Interview with Shoichi Aoki • What Harajuku Girls Really Look Like | Sty... Martin Margiela for Street Mag https://www.archivepdf.net/maison-mar... On Asia-Pacific Political Relations & their Effects on Japanese Culture and Economy https://www.britannica.com/place/Tian... https://www.britannica.com/place/Japa... https://www.britannica.com/event/Meij... https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/t... More History of Haircuts in Japan https://www.tokyoweekender.com/art_an... On Ivy League’s Impact https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/fash... https://www.heddels.com/2019/03/weird... https://www.ivy-style.com/the-miyuki-... 1970s Tokyo (Photos by Greg Girard) https://www.businessinsider.com/photo... On Kensuke Ishizu, Pioneer of Japanese Ivy Style https://www.ivy-style.com/the-man-who... https://www.heddels.com/2019/03/weird... On Rune Naito, Pioneer of Kawaii https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13... https://web.archive.org/web/201912110... On Osamu Tezuka, Pioneer of Manga & Anime https://www.japanhousela.com/articles... Photos of Style in Japan from 1950-2017 https://artsandculture.google.com/sto... Rockabillies https://www.yokogaomag.com/editorial/...

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