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Summary: Simply buy this book.
Review: This should be everyone's fashion bible. That's all.
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Summary: Eye candy eye candy eye candy!!!
Review: What else can I say but every time I look at this book I see something new. The outfits are crazy, beautiful, colorful, amazing. It's a great coffee table book. If you like fashion at all you will love this book, and even if you're not into fashion, you will very likely still enjoy perusing through it.
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Summary: .a wrench in the system.
Review: Whoa - the reviews. All right - I'm somewhat rating two stars to add some variety to the ratings here, which Fruits really deserves (even in the negative sense). What I'm anti- is high fashion, high prices, and concerted efforts to look certain ways. Apparently, although they're creative and colorful, etc. - these are kids who don't go to school, don't have jobs, and literally just use their fathers' money to buy clothes, be seen in the fashion district, to be photographed by such publications. It's an obsession. It's trying so hard to be different that apparent sub-culture becomes really really whorish pretense. I guess I want to know how much of the layered leg warmers and crazy patterns are at least structurally self-made rather than suggested by some high price stores. So if these were little thrift shop rags - like old women's mumus made into an ironically nice-fitting little frock - there would be lots of merit. But there's so much of (...)-off-American(and whatever else) commercialism (references to bands, styles, etc.), and, the profiles of these aspiring camera darlings tell which expensive store each piece was bought at, and that they like looking cute, etc. I guess I'm really sick of the whole 'let's bleach our hair, get blue contacts, and get caucasian-looking-tan-make-up (and tips on how to look more so), even in the supposed 'subcultures'. You know, even the 'underground' of metal or goth is too efforted. Too much praise and acknowledgement, believe it or not, for American culture, without the balance of fashion either being a symbol of own-culture or global culture. Oiy vey. But then, I do give one star for the humor of the publication: the weird monster poses and ridiculous but unaware self-parady are really a laugh. Makes for good pages to stick on your wall too.
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Summary: ai candy
Review: _Fruits_ is a collection of photos exhibiting the various fashions of Japanese subculture, primarily those found in the Harajuku district of Tokyo. It's eye-opening to see a culture where there is no perception of "normal clothes". Bright colors, interesting textures, and lots of layers are used to create an outfit which seems outlandish to conservative American dress but is just plain cool to look at. I enjoy going through this book because it questions what society establishes as the norm for clothing. I'm going through a phase where I want to be different in how I dress and look, and I somehow relate to all the youth in this book, with their candy-colored hair, angel wings, and platform shoes. I passed around this book to my other "alternative" friends and they loved it. It is pricey, but the photos are of a very high quality and you'll find yourself picking it up over and over to read the profiles and look at the wonderful outfits.
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