Punk Rock and Gothic Lolita

A shock, I know.

My change began with one word... NANA. Yes, so I was infected with Nanagitis before I left for Japan but this illness has gotten worse. I have never been into rock music as it's just noise to me even though some of my favorite songs belong within the rock genre (does that even make sense?) and besides many great fashionista's of our age believe that fashion should be part of your lifestyle and our lifestyle should contribute to our style. That means I shouldn't dress like Nana no matter how cool I think she is because I'll just be a phony try hard rock chick. I have to disagree though. As I said a few posts before that I have broadened my views with the idea of trying different styles so I CAN DRESS LIKE A ROCK CHICK IF I WANT EVEN WITH MY LACK OF MOSHING WHILE WATCHING LIVE BANDS PERFORM! (Note: Lack of = 0). Although I still think it is important to retain a certain style that you know back to front and inside out, I also think fashion is for everyone and people should experiment with style as much as possible. Not only is it fun but it also teaches people about different lifestyles and cultures. Wow just think of that concept.

The abolishment of discrimination due to fashion!

Of course it's a tad bit idealistic but I have a new found respect for people down in that Utopia CD shop. Refer to my post The delights of subculture... and MAN CANDY!

Since I haven't posted any eyecandy for a long long time I'll update with quite a few pictures in this post for your viewing pleasure. All pictures are from Kera Magazine with my digital camera. I don't have Photoshop on my host mother's laptop so the photos are a little dark and I can't watermark them, please do not use without crediting me. This blog entry has taken me over an hour and a half to finish. Click to enlarge.

Maggie, I promise I won't dress like this when I'm out shopping with you.

I love the Japanese interpretation of rock chic because it still includes that little bit of cutness and bubblegum pop.


Check out the heels on those shoes! SOOOOOOOO COOL! I love the first ones. Although I'll end up around 6'1 ft (185cm) in them -_-;; I'm interested in buying those Engineer boots though.

I'm over the 16-year-old-streaking-my-hair-different-colors-stage but I love the Librarian glasses.

I'm so in love with this jacket. It's so very NANA.

Her hair is crazy! Love the outfit!!! You know when you can start dressing like this in Sydney without people staring then you know Sydney has really moved forward with it's fashion.

This is a really nice simple outfit with it's main feature being the giant Vivienne Westwood globe belt.

Slightly cuter, woot for orange hair! I used to have orange hair! @.@

Tartan skirts and b&w horizontal striped knee length socks are essentials for both styles.

This outfit reminds me of something Misa from Death Note would wear. If it's Death Note, loves it.

Come on, even the little kids are getting into it. They're so adorable. I'm gonna dress my kids Chip and Chloe like this (even if they want wear Ralph Lauren) and make them style icons at the tender age of three.

Punk Rock and NANA wouldn't be the same without Vivienne Westwood.

I'm loving the dress at the bottom right hand corner.

One problem with dressing Gothic Lolita is the fact that I'm tall and unfortunately one style that doesn't look good on tall people is Gothloli. You're meant to look young and cute hence the word Lolita. Although of course models would still look amazing in something Gothic (just look at the Christian Dior Sping 2006 Couture show) but it always looks to high fashion rather than authentic Gothloli. Another problem with both Punk Rock and Gothloli styles is that these styles require extreme waif like bodies, even more so for Punk Rock due to all the cigarettes and drugs. Not to worry though, I've lost a kilo (2.2lbs) over the weekend already (probably only water but anyway...) so I'll be 50 kilos (110lbs) in no time.

Nana and Ren seem sceptic -_-;;

Wanna see my attempt at Gothic Lolitaism?




Hahaha, turned out sooooooooo wrong! I've got photos of other attempts but I can't access them on this computer. I'll be sure to post them up so you can laugh at me again. These photos were kindly taken by my budding photographer friend Cessi. Visit him at http://www.allbluesea.net/

Here's a rock chic one throw in for good measure. No I don't smoke, the cigarette is a prop. For more refer to my second blogspot post.

Until next time!

Chu ♥ Mel

Labels: Anime/Manga, Fashion, Japan Exchange, NANA, Tokyo

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