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Fashioning Japanese subcultures /

"Western fashion has been widely appreciated and consumed in Tokyo for decades, but since the mid-1990s Japanese youth have been playing a crucial role in forming their own unique fashion communities and producing creative styles which have had a major impact on fashion globally. Geographically...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kawamura, Yuniya, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Berg Publishers, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Introduction : Understanding subcultural studies: Dick Hebdige revisited
  • Placing Tokyo on the fashion map: from catwalk to street style
  • Japanese youth in a changing society
  • II. Geographically and stylistically defined Japanese subcultures : Shibuya: the youth in outspoken rebellion
  • Harajuku: the youth in silent rebellion
  • Akihabara and Ikebukuro: playing with costume as entertainment
  • Shinjuku: girls of the nightlife using beauty and youth as weapons
  • Kouenji and other fashion districts; from secondhand clothes lovers to fast fashion followers
  • Individual and institutional networks within a subcultural system: efforts to validate and valorize new tastes in fashion
  • III. The power of the youth: trickle-up / bubble-up theory revisited : The deprofessionalization of fashion
  • The globalization of Japanese subcultures and fashion: possibilities and limitations
  • Conclusion : The future of Japanese subcultures
  • Appendix : [Statistics].