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Summary: LOVED it!
Review: This book is outrageously funny and bursting with nifty ideas(if you're the fashionably-daring kind!)
I bought it not really knowing what to expect and I was amazed at the creativity these people put into their outfits. I started using them as inspiration for my own clothes!
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: This book is really great. These Japanese folks have the most interesting and eccentric sense of style, and I'm so glad that someone thought to capture it and make a book of it. Aoki also includes (when available) the brands that each person is wearing, which is helpful if you're planning on developing a style similar to that of the subjects. This book is very colorful and fun to marvel at.
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: This book is really great. These Japanese folks have the most interesting and eccentric sense of style, and I'm so glad that someone thought to capture it and make a book of it. Aoki also includes (when available) the brands that each person is wearing, which is helpful if you're planning on developing a style similar to that of the subjects. This book is very colorful and fun to marvel at.
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Summary: fascinating and fun!
Review: This book is such a thrill to flip through. at first glance it's a chaotic riot of color; your eyes are swamped with wild accessories and unlikely combinations. Then as you adjust and take it page by page, it's amazing to look at these people dressed in such creative ways. Now that i've read through the book at least 25 times I pay attention to more of the background detail, which in itself is quite intriguing: banks of vending machines, the writing on people's bags, buttons and patches, a cup of ramen and box of candy next to a photo subject. These small details make the people even more interesting -- they are surrounded by the everyday so they stand out even more. I will say that there seem to be a few editing issues. The same picture of a blond girl in a "radioactive" tshirt appears twice and with two different names and captions; so which one's right? makes me wonder how accurate the other match-ups are...
also, a few people seem to appear multiple times; the one i'm thinking of particularly is a girl named Eiko, who in both pics is wearing the same green Zucca jacket, purse and tiedyed skirt, but with a different scarf and hat. I wish one of these photos would have been dropped so that we could have another picture of someone else's different and creative ensemble. I understand that the "Fruits" style of dress has largely fallen by the wayside at this point, which is saddening. I liked to think of those kids in Japan as a few less khaki-wearers in a GAP-clad world.
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Summary: Inspirational!!
Review: This book is totally awesome! It totally inspired my wardrobe! One of the best fashion books I have ever seen!
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Summary: Fruits
Review: This book rocks the crazy street styles. Great source for design for anime or comic book characters.
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Summary: Dizzying array of Japanese eye candy!
Review: This brilliant book isn't fancy fashion photography--it's a series of slides that are made purposely for documentation. The subjects are clearly lit, always centred in the frame. Each page has a little bit of text in the corners--the model's name and age (13 to 25 seems to be the range here), favorite fashion, and "current obsession". Some of the answers to these bare-bones questions are amusing, but the focus and attraction of this book is outlandish streetwear. And what streetwear! Camden town isn't a tenth as inventive. A dizzying array of styles and colours from head to feet; a mixture of cultures--a Japanese skinhead in suede cowboy chaps; kimonos worn with monster-fur boots; a bevy of little girls who are living dolls; an unintentionally ironic set of identically-dressed "punks"--every page is different from the rest. If you're the least bit interested in costuming and contemporary fashion, BUY THIS BOOK NOW! What a delight and inspiration!
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Summary: Talk about goofy!
Review: This is a hard book to put down! The clothing worn by the young Japanese hipsters in this book are costumey, outrageous, theatrical and over-the-top...and the kids all look like they're having a heck of a lot of fun with what they wear. There are little points of inspiration in the pages of this book that I want to borrow for myself - adding an unexpected and totally off-the-wall accessory, wearing a normally taboo color combo, or mixing patterns. While I am a bit older than the pink-haired punks and Elegant Gothic Lolitas found on the glossy pages, I think the message here isn't one of age, or even geographic location. It's that fashion is something we often take too seriously, and there is plenty of room for self-expression and fun in this area of our day-to-day lives. Even if you may not be ready to go out wearing 8 Hello Kitty barrettes, 6-inch white platform wedgies, a pink vinyl Barbie purse and chartreuse dreadlocks with your black power suit, you can still have a lot of fun checking out the wild children in this beautiful book.
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Summary: kawaiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Review: this is one of the few books i own that i would call a treasure. it's filled with original fashion that is definately a far cry from what you see walking on the streets, of say, NYC or any place claiming to be a city of high fashion. the book is filled with adorable people in there that inspire you to be creative and beautiful, without losing your own sense of style. what's great is that the guys get in on the fun too, donning clothing that american boiz would never wear(check out the sailor boy). fruits is even more special because it captures the styles that barely make an appearance in harajuku or shinjuku anymore, and if you're a mana fan like me, dresses from moi-meme-moitie get a page, along with other EGL fashion.
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Summary: Freaky deaky!
Review: This is the coolest fashion book I've seen in my life. These are the wildest getups you will ever find and the pictures are beautiful. Get this book now!!
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