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Mixing, not matching
What exactly is Harajuku style? Its trends defy easy description. How about camouflage legwarmers and matching microshorts with black garters, boots and teeny-bopper ponytails? Sure. Platinum-dyed hair, hot-pink lipstick and piercings? Of course.
What would be jaw-dropping elsewhere is ho-hum in Harajuku. Here, mohawked punks, flower-child hippies and ghost-pale goths are quaintly vintage. Old school, if you will.
Currently, the most popular fashion in Harajuku is a French twist on the Goth look. Dubbed "Lolita" but generally known as GothLoli, it means that in addition to traditional whitened faces, black clothes and hair, you dress like a Victorian-era French maid. Think shockingly short frocks, frills and lace — and don't forget the matching hairpiece and a parasol.
GothLoli was forged out of anime fantasies and brought into the mainstream by cult movies such as Kamikaze Girls (a mix of Tarantino-esque craze and Amelie-like sweetness). And as anime's popularity grows in this country, so does the GothLoli look among teens searching for a new way to stand out.
