Travel to Japan

Fruits

Format: Paperback
Author: Shoichi Aoki
ReleaseDate: 06 January, 2001
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Rating:

This is a great photo book.
The photographs are all high quality and just about every page also has a little questionaire filled out by each subject so you get to know a little more about them then their outrageous fashion sense. Even if you aren't particularly interested in Japanese youth culture, this book is just a great example of fashion or humanity and the expansion of western culture into the eastern.

A Birthday Gift

He enjoyed the book but thought it had too much FASION aspect. I got this for my 14 year old son who is into Asian pop culture.
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Colorful World
As soon as I got home I ordered both Fruits and it's companion. I had the good fortune to run into this book on vacation. As a self motivated student of fashion and all of it's off-shoots, I immensely enjoy this book. It is a plethora of individuals, and not a duplicate picture in the book. It features mostly youth (teenagers) but that is to be expected. But it doesn't limit itself to just the very young. There are a few family photos and "older" individuals. It is a monument to anyone who creatively clothed themselves. It gives brief details: name, age, point of fashion, fashion brands and makers. A lot of the "point of fashion" remarks seem like nonsense at first. After reflection, I think they are just 'smart allec come-backs', much like what you'd get from someone in the American Gothic culture if you asked one of them why they wear black all the time. Even with brief details you can start to see patterns in clothing styles seperating themselves out from one another. By age particularly, and by preference to designers within a group of friends. The only problem I had was reading some of the bubble gum colored print that it was done in. .

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