The beauty and mystique of dark inspiration from Japan. Part fashion and artbook, and part storybook.
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This book is a visual foray into the popular and influential Japanese subcultures of Gothic Lolita, Gothic Punk, and Visual-kei. It showcases a creative lifestyle synthesized from a remix of Victoriana, the macabre, manga, supernatural, and traditional Japanese aesthetic forms, as well as the punk scene of the 1970s and 80s.
Japanese Goth blends disparate elements of global pop culture into something fun, stylish, and unique — part Marilyn Manson, part Hello Kitty, and part high art. This volume features established key designers, artists, and personalities from Tokyo’s trendsetting fashion, art, music, and design scenes including Mana, Kokushoku Sumire, h. Naoto, Fuyuko Matsui, and many others.
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About the author
Tiffany Godoy has lived in Japan since 1997, when she began working as a fashion editor for the Japanese culture magazine Composite and then Studio Voice. She is a contributing editor and writer for Vogue Nippon, V Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, Self Service, WWD, and Interview. She has served as a creative consultant for fashion and advertising companies in Japan.
links
www.tiffanygodoy.com
http://tiffanygodoy.droptokyo.com/blogs/
http://blogs.colette.fr/tiffanygodoy/
Ivan Vartanian is the President of Goliga Books. He has authored and edited numerous volumes on photography, contemporary art, and design, which have been published internationally. He works and resides in Tokyo, Japan. He collaborated with Tiffany Godoy on Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion * Tokyo.
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Reviews
"...With a gorgeously twisted mix of Victoriana, anime, punk, metal and club kid culture this book will serve any image-starved designer, editor, photographer or stylist very very well."
-- Wayne Sterling of Models.com on Japanese Goth.
"...I laughed when [Tiffany] said in her email that Goth Lolitas will be drooling over Marc Jacobs’ ruffles at Vuitton..."
-- New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn on Japanese Goth.
... "Loaded with striking visuals from the realms of art, design and fashion, Japanese Goth documents various strands of this mesmerizing cultural movement ... spiderweb-like calligraphy in inky black adds extra panache to this moody portfolio."
-- The Atlantan.
"...As the artists, designers, and personalities encapsulated in Japanese Goth demonstrate, proximity to death is not so solemn a space..."
-- Nylon magazine.
"...In a fun new book, Tokyo-based fashion writer Tiffany Godoy paints an intriguing overall picture of the scene..."
-- Fashiontribes.com on Japanese Goth. |
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