HARAJUKU – DISTRICT FOR ANTI-FASHION
INTRODUCTION In order to understand Harajuku (a district of Tokyo), one of the most exciting places to know Japanese fashion, I prefer to focus not on its sophisticated fashion trends but on its more casual and diverse “anti-fashion” styles which have no place to go. An objection against such an approach may be raised, saying […]
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INTRODUCTION In order to understand Harajuku (a district of Tokyo), one of the most exciting places to know Japanese fashion, I prefer to focus not on its sophisticated fashion trends but on its more casual and diverse “anti-fashion” styles which have no place to go. An objection against such an approach may be raised, saying […]
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- I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it — Alexander McQueen #
Welcome to Design, Style and Fashion
SemiotiX Design, Style, and Fashion constructs an interface between semiotics and the professions which most obviously engage in the creation, production, and management of signs in a broad range of institutions both private and public. Activities such as interior decoration, fashion creation, make-up and cosmetic management, marketing and advertisement, font design, and website conception, staging and stage direction, to name only a few, involve the resources of the human capacity to innovatively modify our environment and our lives by creating new ways of seeing, feeling, and sense making.
Editor in chief: Hiroshi Yoshioka, a Professor of Art Theory at Kyoto University and current President of the Japanese Association for Semiotic Studies.
