As Harajuku-mania exploded, people stopped giving a damn about the way they looked. All of the sudden, fashion became a fascination, also almost like an obsession. But most of all, it was about having fun, and not giving a damn how you looked. And nobody recognized this more other than Shoichi Aoki.
Aoki is a well-known [...]
FRUiTS
THE HISTORY OF HARAJUKU FASHION (Exposé on the Harajuku Fashion Culture. By Edward Merrin)
Thanks to Wikipedia and books like FRUiTs, I’m able to provide you some basic information on the Harajuku fashion.
Before Y2K had hit, big things were popping and starting to change in Japan— specifically in the Harajuku district in Tokyo. According to FRUiTs, from the early to the mid 90’s, Hokoten, which is also known as [...]
A Brief Introduction of Edward Merrin
You know you want them. You know you want to be like them. And you know you can’t stop thinking about them… Everyone and their mother wants to have everything to do with Harajuku girls.
My name is Ed Merrin, and I’m addicted to the Harajuku girls of Japan. Hence, this site— my ode to [...]
