JAPANESE STREETS: Japanese street fashion, street culture and catwalk fashion. Follow the fashion trends of Japan's trendy youths

This post is one of a series featuring photos that I shot in 2015, but weren’t uploaded

Hat – POZZYRAP – JPY 5,000 | Hair – ACE-LAB JPY 13,000

Hat – POZZYRAP – JPY 5,000 | Hair – ACE-LAB JPY 13,000
Stole – TITICACA – JPY 2,600 | Cardigan – UNIQLO -JPY 2,000

Stole – TITICACA – JPY 2,600 | Cardigan – UNIQLO -JPY 2,000

Stole – TITICACA – JPY 2,600

Bag – N/A – JPY 2,592

Skirt – small-laly – JPY 1,280

Shoes – chocoholic – JPY 2,100

Noriko’s listening to SuG: SICK’S

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.

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oh, i like this one. the colors are kind of cheerful, the hat has some bubblegum feeling about it. :D i’m not a big fan of the shoes but they fit the whole outfit nicely. it’s neat how every color can connect/match to another one (cardigan-scarf, skirt-scarf, hair-shoes, hat-scarf… great scarf!^^). makes the whole thing appear well thought out.

MJ
Jan 15, 2016 (2886 days ago)

@MJ: I love your description of the knit cap, has some bubblegum feeling about it. Your observation about the colors is very true. When I first started shooting Japanese street fashion, I initially felt that some people seemed to have just randomly thrown colors together. But when I started to add the color blocks to the articles, I discovered that there was an incredible amount of repetition of the colors in the different items, and also that the tone of all the colors usually matched. I think that Japan’s long history of working with kimono has created this incredible ability to use color.

Kjeld Duits (photographer)
Jan 15, 2016 (2886 days ago)