On Style Utopias: Harajuku History, Fruits Mag, Ivy League, & Postwar Kawaii

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00:00 introduction
03:33 status ambiguity & harajuku re: current trends
08:44 history of japan's modernization re: fashion & culture
13:48 wwii & kensuke ishizu's life as historical parallel
18:35 youth culture's rise & 60s-70s magazines
19:45 harajuku's history & trends over the decades (70s-90s)
25:01 you can have a harajuku too
26:16 fruit's magazine's creation & existence
28:26 inspiration, bricolage, truth, mimicry, & hyperreality
30:47 my feelings & theories on style & social order in the west

smh i did that whole disclaimer just to pronounce 'kensuke' wrong the whole time and not realize till i was editing...............my bad y'all, like comment and subscribe
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REFERENCES & SOURCES

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED — PHAIDON PRESS LIMITED (I do not own any of the images, scans, or photos used in this video.)
All images sourced from Fruits Magazine were shot by Shoichi Aoki and published in 2005.

Featured Song: タイニーリトル・アジアンタム - Shibayan Records

Fresh Fruits Magazine (2005) by Shoichi Aoki
Fruits Magazine (2001) by Shoichi Aoki

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Groom, Amelia. Fashion and Identity in Harajuku. Fashion: The Key Concepts, edited by Jennifer Craik. Berg Publishers, 2009. pp. 159-161.

Groom, Amelia. Power Play and Performance in Harajuku. New Voices, 2011. Web.
http://dx.doi.org/10.21159/nv.04.09

O’Brien, Suzanne G. “Splitting Hairs: History and the Politics of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan” The Journal of Asian Studies 67.4 (2008): 1309–1339. Web.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S002191180800...

Interview with Shoichi Aoki
https://tokion.jp/en/2021/11/19/shoic...

Refinery29 on Harajuku + Interview with Shoichi Aoki
   • What Harajuku Girls Really Look Like | Sty...  

Martin Margiela for Street Mag
https://www.archivepdf.net/maison-mar...

On Asia-Pacific Political Relations & their Effects on Japanese Culture and Economy
https://www.britannica.com/place/Tian...
https://www.britannica.com/place/Japa...
https://www.britannica.com/event/Meij...
https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/t...

More History of Haircuts in Japan
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/art_an...

On Ivy League’s Impact
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/fash...
https://www.heddels.com/2019/03/weird...
https://www.ivy-style.com/the-miyuki-...

1970s Tokyo (Photos by Greg Girard)
https://www.businessinsider.com/photo...

On Kensuke Ishizu, Pioneer of Japanese Ivy Style
https://www.ivy-style.com/the-man-who...
https://www.heddels.com/2019/03/weird...

On Rune Naito, Pioneer of Kawaii
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13...
https://web.archive.org/web/201912110...

On Osamu Tezuka, Pioneer of Manga & Anime
https://www.japanhousela.com/articles...

Photos of Style in Japan from 1950-2017
https://artsandculture.google.com/sto...

Rockabillies
https://www.yokogaomag.com/editorial/...