Characteristics of Clothing When interviewing Yasunari Mihara in the Japan section of the fifth anniversary album in 2009 1626, he described: "Harajuku is a class that insists on its own style and is not influenced by anyone." This is in contrast to Shibuya, which is imitated in clothing and behavior.
The "bamboo shoot clan" is a juvenile group with unique costumes that began to appear in the walking kingdom of Harajuku in the summer of 79. The etymology comes from the original custom of "decorating bamboo shoots" in Harajuku. They wear primary-color cloak-like coats, bloomers, name cards, badges, hair clips, cloth dolls and white sports shoes under their feet. Opened the atmosphere of male decoration. At that time, rich adults could dance in discotheques every night, while poor high school students had to wait until Sunday to dissipate their excess energy by the road. They packed their dancing clothes in bags and changed them at Yoyogi Park near the performance venue. Later, some teenagers dancing by the roadside were found by the media to be red stars, and this popularity reached the most * * *. Later, the popularity of bamboo shoots finally began to decline, but the tradition of roadside singing was endless.
The popularity of Harajuku is mostly the costumes of teenagers' voluntary bands. These costumes with exaggerated colors and strange styles will be reprimanded by parents or neighbors when they are worn near their homes. But in Harajuku, no matter how exaggerated they are, there is no problem. Therefore, the clothes worn here naturally have the nature of an exhibition or performance, and the collocation of clothes itself reflects a sense of aesthetics and a sense of craftsmanship. Every ordinary person can participate at will, judging by how much attention he gets. This is why the fashion of Harajuku is more colorful and exaggerated than Shibuya. In the 1990s, the popularity of Harajuku finally left the track of imitation and took a new step towards creating a unique fashion culture.
Development course Harajuku, Japan is a representative of street culture in Tokyo and a famous "street for young people" in Japan. It can be said that Harajuku is a place for young people to show their individuality, especially the prevailing ancient works and mash-up style. Harajuku, together with daikanyama and Shibuya, is regarded as the representative of street culture in Tokyo. You can see many well-dressed young people on the street, including cosplay and pure Harajuku (note: cosplay is not the same as Harajuku). They dragged boxes with clothes in groups and gathered in the street beside the intersection, not for commercial activities, but spontaneously. There is a shop with the signboard of "lowest price in human history". A dress costs 30 yen, which is less than two dollars. In some shops, a rag costs tens of thousands of yen, so we can't judge their value by its appearance. In Tokyo, young people have endless fashions, endless fashion halls to worship and endless personalized shops to visit.
According to age and taste, Harajuku and daikanyama are the two hottest young and fashionable places in Tokyo. The internationally famous Castle Peak District is a stage for high fashion, which is another matter.
Harajuku, which feels young and lively, has expanded its territory in the past two years and developed a new world of "Riharajuku". In order to find a fresher personality shop, fashionable men and women with keen sense of smell are going to Harajuku to show their unique personality in the elegance of fashion shops scattered in the narrow streets of daikanyama.
The pursuit of fashion has spread from Harajuku block in Tokyo, and even another young man in a corner of Asia will be shaken by his outfit. The hipsters shocked the photographer Masaichi Aoki with their imaginative collocation. He founded several of Japan's most popular street shooting magazines-TUNE for men and FRUiTS for women, and was called the godfather of street shooting. Near the small shop in Riharajuku, there are a string of people who are casually photographed or simply dressed up to be photographed. Hipsters are used to dressing up, visiting Riharajuku, or going to Omotesando Hills to find some good goods. They have everything they want here, such as catwalk, street shooting, warehouse-stack, and all of them come from here except the scarf they bought in France. In Zhuxiatong area, snack bars, lovely and cheap grocery stores and clothing stores are paradise for middle school students. A little personality or high school students and college students will go to Riharajuku, a concentrated place of shops hidden in residential areas, to find their favorite clothes; When they are older, the excellent storefront near the street in Omotesando Hills is just for them. In Omotesando Hills Hills, a shopping mall designed by Tadao Ando, which stretches 250 meters along the street, there are all kinds of international first-line brand goods; Further on, it is the castle peak with high-end brands.
This block is all short blocks, and within 20 or 30 meters, there will be a crossroads composed of vertical and horizontal alleys. It used to be a residential area, and most of the houses facing the street were rented out to young people doing business. Their brand is the most common but best-selling Japanese style, and almost every Japanese girl has cute clothes in her closet-even those girls with hard rock style. In their culture, it is a tradition to choose different dressing styles according to time, place and object, and it was passed down from mother as early as kindergarten. Sato's luggage case is filled with design drawings, samples of clothes taken in Japan, samples of new clothes, color plates and tape measures. According to the plan, he usually stays in Hong Kong for four days and has no time to go shopping at all. There are more than a dozen garment trading companies in Hong Kong that cooperate with them. Every time they go, they should choose a few according to the needs of new products in the season and then visit them one by one.
The earliest Tokyo street fashion originated from here. The Japanese themselves unabashedly expressed their pride in Harajuku. They enlarged the black-and-white photos of decades ago and hung them on the roadside. They were street photographers with shoulder pads and heavy makeup. High-end residential areas, glamorous designers, and dazzling people who haunt this area. At that time, it was a fashionable paradise in Harajuku, with no cars and frequent concerts. Young people gather in twos and threes, shop assistants and beauticians, who are the source of Harajuku's vitality. No place in Tokyo can tolerate so many children with strange clothes but full of confidence. In other blocks, they may only wear school uniforms. But the people living in this block and the police have a headache for the ever-increasing influx of young people-at the peak, Harajuku Pedestrian Street gathered100000 people. After 20 years of existence, this pedestrian street was completely abolished in 1996. But "freedom", the most important gene of fashion, stayed in Harajuku-this is really remarkable.
Street activities are unconventional. Harajuku Station has only one entrance and exit, and the exit is Takeshita Tong. Most of Takeshita Tong's shops are open from 11 am to 8 pm. When you meet a freak and force you into their shop, you can refuse.
When you meet the Harajuku people, you can invite them to take pictures. Most of them are welcome and proud!
Sunday is the busiest day. You must visit the flea market in Meiji Jingu and Yoyogi Park. It's a pity to miss it. Harajuku is a trend indicator in Japan, and the streets and alleys are crowded with young people who are "pilgrimage". In addition to searching for new clothes in Harajuku, many old clothes are also worth looking at. There are flea markets on Saturday and Sunday, and there are shops that are not limited by weather and time. The second-hand wind has already blown to Hong Kong, but the scale and style of second-hand shops in Hong Kong are certainly not as good as those of the other gangs.
Someone once said that in Harajuku, we can see Japanese traditions and pioneers meet in harmony and live in peace with each other. Yes, whenever we see passers-by wearing kimonos visiting Meiji Jingu and the Harajuku people on Sunday intertwined with each other, we will always have another profound experience of Harajuku. Japanese teenagers are burdened with the pressure of life and study, and they hate that this society is always full of the same frame, so they try to find a breakthrough and escape in spirit. Harajuku street has just become a place for them to be unconventional. Harajuku is the most active place for young people in Japan. In a corner not far from Harajuku MRT Station, on the Jingu Bridge at the entrance of Meiji Jingu's outer end, there are always groups of young people, mostly girls, appearing here in BLACKPINK. Every Sunday at noon, you can always see a lot of girls dressed up in colorful clothes coming here. The girls here are dressed in strange clothes, some dressed as doctors and nurses, with white coats and earphones hanging around their necks, and some with colored feathers tied between their hair tips, which is reminiscent of birds and animals. Is it Lan Fenghuang? Or a crow? Some dyed red hair, dressed in red and black, and wore countless ropes. Others have vertical and horizontal lines on their faces, or deliberately leave a few uneven colors under the eye shadow. Some of them are painted with lipstick color like electric switch and black lips. Are they Satan incarnations? Is it a ghost resurrection? It is inevitable that people's thoughts will travel around the universe. Blue and black fly away, I wonder if the image of "Lan Fenghuang" in Jin Yong's imagination is so? Lying on the street freely, without taking into account other people's eyes.
At the beginning of the imagination space, I felt a little scared when I saw people dressed up like monsters and ghosts. I felt that they looked like devils, and I was worried that if I looked at them too much, it would lead to "death"! Later, I found out that they are actually not terrible, but also very friendly and willing to be photographed! These young girls, aged between 12 and 16, are mostly female students in middle and high schools. Most of these girls' clothes are made by themselves, and only a small part of them are bought in a special clothing store on Harajuku Street. Here, there is only one rule: there is no rule. Participants have such a free creative space, and they are free to do whatever they want! Clothes can be colorful, hair can be colorful, makeup can be varied, and your creativity can be brought into full play. There is a whitewash of demon governance, and there is also a simple rock dress, which is for your appreciation.
Alternative Culture Japanese newspapers have read such reports that Japanese teenagers are burdened with the pressure of life and study, and they hate that this society is always full of stereotyped frames, so they try to find spiritual breakthroughs and escape. This is their unconventional field, which belongs to their own relaxed zone. They don't need to take care of other people's eyes at all, whether they are lying, sitting or standing, and everything is slack except their fatigue! So at noon on Sunday, you won't miss the dazzling group on the Jingu Bridge. Invisible, this is already a scene on the Temple Bridge, a scenic spot for tourists, a way for young people to exert their creativity and a channel for girls to vent their boredom. More importantly, they have shaped the alternative culture of the new generation in Japan.
Sightseeing Zhuxiatong, Ri Harajuku, フーレ Harajuku, Omotesando Hills ヒルズ Forever 21the terminal ディランドドド Harajuku Store East.
As long as you step out of Harajuku Station, which is built in imitation of the English rural style, you will see a pair of eye-catching signboards that have become the classic signs of Harajuku. Crossing the path that is always crowded with people is a popular hot spot that you must have seen in newspapers and magazines.
A few years ago, Takeshita Tomoto in Harajuku mainly sold celebrity photos and idol boutiques. With the decline of celebrity boutiques, many boutique grocery stores were replaced. Of course, there must be a specialty store for Harajuku people that sells colorful and exaggerated exotic clothes and silverware. Ordinary people don't dare to wear it.