Harajuku Girls

Gwen Stefani, lead singer of pop band No Doubt has led to a riot-like fashion in his last two Madonna video for her single What You Waiting For and her solo album Love, Angel, Music, Baby. Their catchy 80s inspired popish tunes, platinum blonde hair and Like A Virgin kit on the cover of which enhance its tribute to the material girl, though it may be a bit 'ironic.

Butits her references to the Japanese Harajuku Girls peppered throughout the album and on a track in particular that has attracted interest from a wide range of commentators.

But who are these girls Harajuku anyway?

The Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo and Takeshita Street in particular, a narrow street lined with shops is home to these funky fashion. Since the end of World War II"Consumption" and "consumption" has been the national pastime for most Japanese, especially girls who often live at home with parents and in their twenties. Your rent free existence provides them with sufficient funds for all the weekend the flow of Harajuku, where they are processed in baby doll-like caracitures Lolita.

It 's all a kind of pop-art meets pop culture meets Western decadence any road where there is often a shirt with a westernImage like Mickey Mouse can go for several hundred dollars a pop. This ongoing study of hip pop rock n roll star extends to adolescents as well. These in turn have inspired the Western hip-hop culture disheveled jeans hanging in the middle of the knee cap on his head at every corner and very, very strong bling.

Often, the result looks like something from a manga comic compete as fashionable Harajuku look less human and iconic. Notconcerned about what we see in the West as a conflict of style over substance, Harajuku Girls unlike the Goths, punks and bond girls, who seemed not about rebellion from society. No, really, these girls, like most Japanese, are often very kind and happy, happy posing for photos with tourists curious that take place every Sunday to grab this super-model caricatures.

For the girls of Harajuku, their most extreme defects can a simple cigarette.