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The documentary “People Like Us: Social Class in America” (an excellent film, if you haven’t seen it my students always get a kick out of it) includes a section about Honfest, a yearly festival in Baltimore. See also our post featuring other examples of ads and artists using Asians as props. The only “harajuku style” that exists is the fictional one made up by Gwen Stefani and the western media. The females you have pictured are in Decora (and two in Visual Kei). “Harajuku style” Is a term coined by western media because they are too ignorant to actually research the names of these actual styles. “Harajuku is a style for teenagers in a region of Japan”. This article is really misrepresenting a whole fashion scene and I would like to ask that you correct it- It is just perpetuating the idiocy and ignorance surrounding these styles. In our comments, SG asks that we include the following clarification: Where’s that money going?Īnd, if so, why do you think there’s been so little outcry?įor good measure, here she is performing with her “Girls”: In the meantime, I bet she’s making bank on her clothing line and perfume. Further, if her fashion line, perfume, and continued employment of the Harajuku Girls are any indication, people seem to think the whole thing is awesome. Yet, Stefani’s been at this for four years and I can’t remember hearing any objections to her Harajuku Girls, even in feminist and anti-racist alternative media.
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It makes me think of both this poster on colonial-era travel and this fashion spread. The Harajuku Girls serve as contrast to Stefani’s performance of ideal white femininity. I think that Stefani’s use of Asian women as props (they may or may not be Japanese) fetishizes Asian women and reinforces white privilege.
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Stefani also has a Harajuku Lovers clothing line and a series of perfumes, one for her, and one for each Harajuku Girl: I’d dress them wicked, I’d give them names In the comments, Inky points out that Stefani says this about them in her song, Rich Girl: Here she is with four (Japanese?) women that she hires to be her Harajuku Girls (found here and here): Stefani’s Harajuku Girls serve as her entourage and back-up dancers. In 2004, Gwen Stefani began touring with four women posing as Japanese Harajuku girls. I can’t think of a way to describe them that does them justice, so here are some pictures (found here, here, here and here): Harajuku is a style for teenagers in a region of Japan ( here is the wikipedia entry). sent us this link to a collection of photographs of Harajuku Girls.