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Fruits

By Shoichi Aoki

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| Paperback | 9780714840833

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Fruits is a collection of Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan's premier street fanzine of the same name. 'Fruits' was established in 1994, by photographer Shoichi Aoki, initially as a project to document the growing explosion in street fashion within the suburbs of Tokyo. Over the last five yeContinue

Fruits is a collection of Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan's premier street fanzine of the same name. 'Fruits' was established in 1994, by photographer Shoichi Aoki, initially as a project to document the growing explosion in street fashion within the suburbs of Tokyo. Over the last five years, the magazine has grown to cult status and is now avidly followed by thousands of Japanese teenagers who also use the magazine as an opportunity to check out the latest styles and trends. The average age of the kids featured in the magazine is between 12 and 18, and the clothes that they wear are a mixture of high fashion – Vivienne Westwood is a keen favourite – and home-made ensembles which when combined create a novel, if not hysterical, effect. This extensive collection of portraits represents a unique documentation of the changing face of street fashion throughout the last decade. Colourful, fascinating and funny, this is the first time these cult images have been published outside Japan.

Critics

  • Cute

    In his essay In Praise of Shadows, published in 1933, the novelist Jun’ichiro Tanizaki described and defended an aesthetic which, he said, suffused the traditions of daily life, design, theatre and architecture in his native Japan. This was an aesthe ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

  • Fresh Fruits

    In 1997, Aoki, a Japanese photographer who specialized in capturing street fashion in Paris, London, and New York, turned his eye to Tokyo’s Harajuku district. There young people swarmed the streets in a playful riot of candy-colored, eye-catching en ... (read full critics)

    newyorker published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 304 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0714840831
  • ISBN-13: 9780714840833
  • Publisher: Phaidon Press
  • Pub date: Jan 06, 2001
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1097 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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