@Maria: Yes, you noticed that well. Mori Girl (above) and Dolly (or Dolly Kei — dressed like an antique European doll) are quite popular. Expect more of this kind of fashion over the next few weeks and months.

Hanako has wonderfully expressive eyes, doesn’t she!

Nice tidbit: Tomorrow some photos go live, in the background of one of which you can see a German TV crew shoot Marie shooting Hanaka. See if you can find it tomorrow!

The German crew was making a program about JS for German and Austrian TV. After it has been on air we will show it on our blog as well.

WOW! I was SOO glad that I got to see you guys scout her that day! She is one of the coolest street snap people I have ever seen. I like that she is smiling here..I saw her around Harajuku more that day and she always had a super worried or sad look on her face. She must be really shy!

She looks like she jumped out of Dragon Quest or something! An interesting look and I like the running colour scheme. Not for the cigarette, mind.

@Lactose Intoler-Art: I can’t agree with you more! Hanako is just… wow! Do you remember how I screamed, “Oh my goodness,” when I found her? Thank you very much for your company and I’m already looking forward to going to Harajuku with you, Emi and Kjeld!

@Kjeld: I’m not too sure but I guess Hanako was acting in a special way kind of on purpose and I personally think it might be part of her fashion! Hanako's behavior and style remind me of Jack Sparrow for some reason.

@Mel: That’s so true! There is this famous Japanese video game called Seikendensetsu and I randomly took a look at the website because Hanako’s style reminded me of the game. Please visit the website and check out the characters of 聖剣伝説 (seikendensestu) 4! I wouldn’t think it’s strange even if Hanako was one of them. Funny thing, Hanako stressed that she hadn’t been influenced by any Japanese games.

It is very interesting, even for me, to read some of the backstage info. Thanks, Marie.

@Arc: Great observation. It reminds me of the famous passage by William Shakespeare from As You Like It:

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All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts…
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And one man would these days, I guess, be And one person … ^ O ^

I like your words comparing a personality with a style or an outfit a lot better!

@Arc: The old bard himself would be surprised, I think. ^ _ –

After seeing Hanako here I just had to go and read more about the Mori Girl style, and I have to say it’s quickly becoming one of my favourite Japanese street styles ^^

@Kjeld Duits: It does? :O Didn’t realize, tried to do some search about it in English but the descriptions I found were pretty vague – I guess I would have to know Japanese to find out more ^^ Could you give me some examples of the rules please, I’m very intrigued xD So far the main thing I noticed about it are the colours, the main ones seem to be light beige and cream.

Dolly Kei seems cool as well though, reading about it at the moment!

She is like a character from some play..Straight from the tearther: p Beatiful.