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Japanese Goth

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After finding a copy of Japanese Goth at a local Australian supplier selling for a ridiculously expensive highly inflated price I hunted it down on Amazon and was amazed to find it at less than 1/2 the price, including postage.
When I first began to fall in love with this book and then realised it included examples of Ryo Yoshida's doll art my mind was made up... I had to have it. Gorgeous illustrations and photographs covering a vast array of artistic and fashion related examples including the works of Illustrator Yoh, ball jointed doll artist Ryo Yoshida, illustrator and Lolita fashion brand Angelic Pretty's Kira Imai, Manga Artist Mitsukazu Mihara, the gorgeous illustrative art of Takato Yamamato, exampls of the works of fashion designer h.NAOTO, tthe doll art of Mari Shimizu.... just to name a few. A visually rich feast for the eyes, I highly recommend it.

Glossy pages cover the japanese fashion movement of what is labeled "Goth-Lolita." Here you'll see what the youngsters in Tokyo and beyond have turned into an international fashion movement. Now you'll see fashion inspired by the movement on the runways, but before designers pilfered it, it grew from the heart of the Harajuku district from the spirits of of spunky teenagers. Good looking book, and enjoyable read.

I consider the book "japanese goth" to be a little gem. It is a carefully compiled, beautifully put together little bible of recent goth trends in Japan. Not just Lolita. Not just anime or manga. But all sorts of art and fashion and bands. Yoh's Monocramatic World, Baby, The Stars Shine Bright, hair hats...the artistic trend as of late ib the past ten or fifteen years is all here, with short biogaphies of the artists and fashion houses, too. The chapters have names like Eros and Thanatos but the book is not pretentious, it is just elegant. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in modern Japanese culture or goth or whatever.