April 28, 2005
The FRUiTS of Japanese Fashion:
Reading Resistance on the Streets of Harajuku
by Christy Tidwell
gallery also here inurl:tidwell japanese
-Related Momus' What Is Cute?
'Draw a circle, and ray out from it the abject , the melancholic , the wicked , the childlike. Now in the zones between add the erotic , the ironic , the narcotic , and the kitsch . Intersperse the Romantic/Victorian , the Disney/ consumerist , and the biologically deterministic . At the center of this many-spoked wheel lies a connective empty space. Label it CUTE.'
above via growing up sexually
Posted by Cieciel at April 28, 2005 08:41 AM