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INFLUENCES 10.24.07 12:23 PM

New Book Explores Tokyo Street Fashions

The Tokyo Look Book chronicles inventive Japanese street styles.
Photo: Yuri Manabe/Courtesy of Kodansha International

Fashion in Tokyo is as stylish as it is singularly offbeat. Londoner Philomena Keet was so inspired by what she encountered there that she pursued academic studies in the topic of Tokyo street fashion and teamed up with local music and fashion photographer Yuri Manabe to explore Tokyo’s uniquely diverse urban style. In The Tokyo Look Book, Keet showcases kids in Victorian garb juxtaposed with office and construction workers, and madcap fashion designers with the Harajuku hipsters who wear their bold creations. We talked with Keet to discuss her adventures in Japan's capital.

You wrote your Ph.D. dissertation on Tokyo street fashion. Are you the first?
I think I might be the first to do a Ph.D. on the subject; that would be nice. When I lived in Osaka, I was intrigued by a mass gathering of Cosplayers—people dressed as characters from anime or video games—and Gothic Lolitas, [who dress in] childlike styles in black and white with Victorian touches. When I returned to England, my fascination was fueled by the Fruits books, which document kooky Harajuku fashions. At the same time, I had been studying the anthropology of material culture and consumption, [and] all these elements fit together to inspire me. MORE >>

The Tokyo Look Book