Shibuya kei fashion

There was a while there in the mid to late 90s when it looked like Japanese pop chanteuse Kahimi Karie would break out of Tokyo’s hip and fashionable “Shibuya-kei” scene (which included Pizzicato Five, Plastic Fantastic Machine, Dee-lite’s Tōwa Tei and others) to find international stardom. She certainly had the potential, the looks and the style. I think when European and American music fans first discovered her, it was assumed that there might be other, similar J-Pop singers like her still…

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Pizzicato five

Gothic Harajuku 原宿

Shibuya-Kei Capsule. (Yasutaka Nakata at his cutest, oh my god.)

Harajuku girl with twin tails, wearing a black and red outfit with plaid skirt, striped socks, platform shoes, oversized bunny bag, eyeball, spider & skeleton accessories.

Edgy Japanese girl in Harajuku dressed in an XOXO corset top, tiered tutuHA skirt, thigh-high stocking with red bows & tall platform boots with buckles from GladNews.

Gothic Harajuku style with matching t-shirt and hoodie, spider web tights and chunky loafers.