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 […]
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 […]
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.