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Fruits Foreword and photographs by Shoichi Aoki
Phaidon 0714840831 / 9780714840833 Hardcover New
If you ever wondered where the catwalk got its claws then the portraits gathered in photographer Shoichi Aoki's book Fruits from the streets of Harajuku in Tokyo point the way to an extraordinarily imaginative and invariably stunning glut of mongrel fashion heists. A best-of collection from the fanzine of the same name and published for the first time outside Japan Fruits keeps its style clean: front-on razor-sharp images ranging from the deadpan to the manic of the sharpest collages of sartorial influence that usually little money can buy. From off the peg to off the wall kitsch to bitch each person bears a combination and philosophy as distinctive as DNA. All shades of aesthetic are raided with exquisite scrupulous attention to detail. Punk is a favorite as is appropriately Vivienne Westwood alongside Milk and Jean-Paul Gaultier and the occasional Comme des Garçons. Many of the outfits though are second-hand or self-assembly such as a skirt drooping petals of men's silk ties Wa-mono when tradition Japanese clothes are topped with say an authentic bowler hat EGL (elegant gothic Lolita) and a swathe of tartans pinks and turquoises. The most malleable feature unsurprisingly is hair with dreadlocks mohicans back-combing and crops dyed an irradiated spectrum. While the eye is drawn obediently to the mannequins the background is often worth a look either for the vending machines against which a number are shot or the ubiquitous Gap store and bags a constant reminder of the global mass market.
One enterprising man wears a genuine British paperboy's delivery bag and to pick but one profile Princess 18 is trying to be a doll and is currently preoccupied with body organs. Mmm. All the subjects are asked the source of their clothes as well as their point of fashion and current obsession. The scope for sociopsychological discussion is vast particularly with the preponderance of infantilization through dolls bonnets pop socks and Barbie but this is a joyous documentation of the innovative celebrating the inspirational polytheism of street fashion captured with provocative political zeal. Best let the street cats prowl
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