Make a Harajuku fashion shirt (from CRAFT Vol 3)
Our buddy Diana Eng wrote an article for CRAFT Vol 3 (Disclosure: my wife, Carla is editor-in-chief) on making this cute Harajuku style T-shirt. The entire how-to is now available online at HP's Wetpaint Wiki. Link
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ugh, I'd go out of my way to avoid something 'popularized by Gwen Stefani' especially considering how her 'Harajuku Girls' were just props in her act.
"Harajuku style t-shirt"?! Now that's just downright goofy. Wearing a shirt that says "Harajuku", and with a "Harajuku Girl" label on it is the exact counterpart of wearing a shirt that says "Haight-Ashbury" on one side and "hippie" on the other; it's a dead giveaway that the wearer has no concept of the location or of its fashionability. I've spent countless hours in Harajuku and have to say that I've never seen even one young woman wearing a shirt like this; they're all a bit beyond such looks. This is what girls at the entrance of Yoyogi Koen or on Takeshita-dori typically dress like. Around the corner on Jingumae, the styles tend to be more sedate but still -- not T-shirts with "Harajuku" on them.
Bricology beat me to it. It seems that this shirt is maybe trying to copy Takeshita-dori punk, but... Yeah. Not even close.
Sorry.
...Tehmoth speaks the Gospel for me as well WRT The Queen of Nasal. Gwen likes to claim she's been a fan of the Harajuku scene for years, but according to quite a few sources she hadn't even heard of the place until those two Cosplay clones of her showed up. She then "retconned" her life and claimed to be "their biggest fan" in order to cash in on the immediate sales that resulted from giving them the shout-out.
...Don't get me wrong, kids - I'm not dissing the Harajuku scene at all. Even at my age, I wouldn't mind checking it out for once just to see it in real life. But all those kids and their creativity getting usurped by Gwen Stefani as another of her lame-assed marketing blitzes as part of her grand dream to replace Madonna as the "blonde bombshell bankroll" of the music industry is just plain pathetic. Especially since it's obvious she's trying to achieve with hype what she clearly can't with her obvious lack of talent.
Re: Gwen Stefani -- it's telling that she utterly mangled the pronunciation of "Harajuku" on that godawful song "Harajuku Girls", voicing it "hair-uh-ZHOO-koo", rather than the correct "huh-RAH-j'-koo".
I mean, one ride on the Yamanote-sen or the Chiyoda subway line would've cleared that up, with the recorded voice calling out to passengers with the correct pronunciation of the station -- "Harajuku, Harajuku desu".
I see that Diana has had her teeth fixed. Congrats to her. She had the most imagination on that season of Project Runway.
My god, this Japan obsession has got to end. Why is this interesting? Why is Harajuku interesting? Because tons of girls who don't want to look like everyone else dress up in crazy outfits--like all the other girls in Harajuku?
Look at this crap!
Mnemesis, so you are bored with my obsession with Japan. I'm not. If you want to complain about how you don't share my interests, OK, but I don't know if it does any good.
I just like the East Village Bamn! store in the background.
thnk h's brd wth yr bsssn bcs trtng Jpn, cnstntly wd-yd, lk sm gnt frk shw S brng.
...Actually, I think he's just pissed they're not running around nekkid :p