New Book Features International Lolita Fashion Fans

By Kjeld Duits, Sunday January 17, 2016 - news

Japanese Lolita fashion promoter Ai Akizuki launches a photo book about Lolitas outside Japan

Japanese Lolita fashion promoter Ai Akizuki held a book launch party in Tokyo on January 16 to introduce the International Lolita Fashion Photobook. The book features 200 photographs of Lolitas from 28 countries, and includes interviews with Lolitas of six different nationalities.

International Lolita Fashion Photobook is only available as an e-book and currently sells on Amazon US for USD 4.19. It is also available on other Amazon sites.

JAPANESE STREETS had a look at Ai’s book launch party.

Happening Now in #Tokyo Book release party for International Lolita Fashion Photobook by Ai Akizuki #lolitafashion pic.twitter.com/AZo6aqBzd4
— JAPANESE STREETS (@japanesestreets) January 16, 2016

Happening Now in #Tokyo Book release party for International Lolita Fashion Photobook by Ai Akizuki #lolitafashion pic.twitter.com/b4qrL4oFhK
— JAPANESE STREETS (@japanesestreets) January 16, 2016

Ai Akizuki

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Inspired by the stunningly creative street fashion that exploded on the streets of Tokyo and Osaka in the late 1990’s, photo-journalist Kjeld Duits launched JAPANESE STREETS in 2002. This makes JS one of the first fashion blogs on the net, and the very first to cover Japanese street fashion.

Comment （日本語もOK）

Ahhh so many pretty lolita dresses!

Emma
Jan 19, 2016 (1186 days ago)

Lolita is about dead in Japan. Lolita is more popular outside of Japan so lolita brands hold alot of events like this one in the blog post outside of Japan. I live in Japan and everytime I go into a lolita brand clothing shop in Japan I never see a single customer or looker ever. Don’t know how they manage to keep the shops open they might eventually be only an online shop since most of their sales are overseas. Most subcultures of fashion died in Japan now its mostly generic plain clothes everywhere.