Fashioning Japanese subcultures /
"Western fashion has been widely appreciated and consumed in Tokyo for decades, but since the mid-1990s Japanese youth have been playing a crucial role in forming their own unique fashion communities and producing creative styles which have had a major impact on fashion globally. Geographically...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Berg Publishers,
2012
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction : Understanding subcultural studies: Dick Hebdige revisited
- Placing Tokyo on the fashion map: from catwalk to street style
- Japanese youth in a changing society
- II. Geographically and stylistically defined Japanese subcultures : Shibuya: the youth in outspoken rebellion
- Harajuku: the youth in silent rebellion
- Akihabara and Ikebukuro: playing with costume as entertainment
- Shinjuku: girls of the nightlife using beauty and youth as weapons
- Kouenji and other fashion districts; from secondhand clothes lovers to fast fashion followers
- Individual and institutional networks within a subcultural system: efforts to validate and valorize new tastes in fashion
- III. The power of the youth: trickle-up / bubble-up theory revisited : The deprofessionalization of fashion
- The globalization of Japanese subcultures and fashion: possibilities and limitations
- Conclusion : The future of Japanese subcultures
- Appendix : [Statistics].
