BIG IS BEAUTIFUL

Balloon skirts that circle back to a gathered hemline, blouses with puffy leg-of-mutton sleeves, and draping bolero jackets with three-quarter-length sleeves cut and sewn with copious frills are among the items now in favor as big-looking clothes take the spotlight. The 2006 fall and winter fashion collections signaled that slender and feminine were out and "neo volume style" was in. Marc Jacobs of Louis Vuitton, for example, unveiled a dress with a large pocket at the waist, much like a kangaroo pouch, and a rounded silhouette coat. And Chloé, a popular brand whose handbags are in very high demand, came out with a cocoon silhouette coat and short bolero jacket with numerous folds and three-quarter-length sleeves.

The Volume Look Revisited

The "volume" look made its debut in the 1960s and made a major comeback in the 1980s, when fan-shaped mini skirts and other shapely items were unveiled by Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Lacroix, and other foreign designers. In Japan, balloon skirts, blouses with puffy sleeves, and other oversized clothing caught on in the latter half of the 1980s after young Olive magazine readers began wearing them and the "cute and coquettish" look took hold.

Balloon skirts are in vogue. (Laisse Passe Co., Ltd.)
Today, two more decades down the line, volume fashion is again back in vogue, while the preference dating back to the 1990s for casual and compact styles, with excess kept to a minimum, seems to have passed its peak.

This time, however, variety is the name of the game, with voluminous tops often being mixed with leaner bottoms and vice versa, rather than full head-to-toe volume. By wearing a balloon skirt with a high-necked collar knit or short jacket, or a puffy sleeved blouse or cocoon silhouette top with skinny jeans, leggings, or other tight-fitting pants, a clean, sharp look is achieved

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Battle Of Harajuku

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Title is "Battle Of Harajuku"

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Harajuku Hair Style

The Most Important Factor in Harajuku Style is Hair Style

Some tips For U : Use wild and crazy color and Style your hair like punk rock if you like, or like a manga character.

Ok !! I Will show you some cool Image of Harajuku Hair Styleif U Want to Copy than copy it ......
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Look Cute with pink Harajuku Style

Harajuku is not always talk about wild and crazy costume, you can look cute with Kawaii(cute) style. some example u can see below picture :

Harajuku Style in PiNK Color ------ >

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Harajuku Girls

Harajuku girls, used to identify girls who gather in Harajuku district, Tokyo, Japan. Their costumes is in several different styles of clothing that originated in the culture of Japan's major cities.

The term is not only monopolized by those who gather in the district themselves, but has become a relatively popular expression in the United States. Popular use originated from the American singer Gwen Stefani's 2004 Love.Angel.Music.Baby album, which brought attention to Stefani's entourage of four supposed "Harajuku Girls" who were hired to portray the look, three of whom are Japanese and one of whom is Japanese American.

The Harajuku Girls are four young women who were hired in 2004 as backup dancers for American singer Gwen Stefani's Love. Angel. Music. Baby. album The "Harajuku Girls" have continued to appear alongside Stefani, and are featured in the music videos for "What You Waiting For?", "Rich Girl", "Hollaback Girl", "Luxurious", "Crash", "Wind It Up", "The Sweet Escape", and "Now That You Got It".

Coincidentally, both Love and Music have worked with Namie Amuro at some time, Music as a member of the group Super Monkeys and Love as Amuro's dancer for a period.

Harajuku Girls - THE GIRLS (L.A.M.B)

Maya Chino (stage name "Love") grew up in Tokyo. She started out doing ballet when she was three years old. Before dancing with Gwen Stefani, she was a backup dancer for South Korean singer BoA.

Jennifer Kita (stage name "Angel"), born 1986, is a Japanese-American from Los Angeles, California. After graduating high school, Jennifer moved to San Diego and studied hip-hop at Mesa College. She later joined the dance troupe Culture Shock San Diego, and performed with them for two years.

Rino Nakasone (stage name "Music"), born June 10, 1979, grew up in Okinawa. She became interested in dance after watching music videos by Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson and mimicking their moves. At the age of nineteen, she went to Los Angeles to study dance. She later taught dance at a performing arts centers, and formed the dance group "Beat Freaks".

Mayuko Kitayama (stage name "Baby"), born February 17, 1983, grew up in Osaka. She eventually moved to New York, where she practiced in several dancing studios, after dancing in Japan for several years.

Maya Chino - Love

Real Name: Maya Chino
DOB: ?
Favourite Food: Japanese Food
Favourite Color: Green
Music she likes: House, Victor Dplais

Gwen's Definition: love (luv) n.
1. An intense affectionate concern for another person.
2. passionate attraction.
3. A beloved person.
4. A strong liking or euthusiasm for something.
5. A zero score in tennis.
6. To feel love for. -In love. - Enamored. -v. Loved, loving. The act of putting two sexy bodies together. To give extreme pleasure to [ oe lufu. - love'a€ble adj].

About Love: Angel describes Love as, "Sweet and caring and free spirited. Love is always like off in her own little world, getting ready to go on stage and all the sudden we're like, "Where's Love, where's Love?", and she's off like either in catering or like just doing her thing, stretching off in the corner she just has her headphones on, nobody knows what's going on."

Interesting fact about Love: She featured as a backing dancer in BoA's early J-POP career, through her 'Listen to my heart' and 'VALENTI' eras. (The creator of this site is a HUGE BoA fan, and was shocked to see Love in BoA's early Japanese videos >_<)

Interveiw with Love

"Hi, I'm Love. My Japanese name is Maya, I'm named after Budda's mother. Maya means Love in Hindi, Gwen probably sensed it from me. I started ballet when I was three, I really really wanted to enroll for a ballet course in the US. My dance skills allowed me to enter into that school.

But my academy record was poor, so I failed. I was so sad, I was crying crying and then I lost my enthusiasm for ballet. I started HIP HOP dance instead, I love HIP HOP music, my enthusiasm exploded through HIP HOP. I decided to become a HIP HOP dancer.

Harajuku is the place for young Japanese people to show their uniqueness, through dance performance, music and especially through fashion. Young designers gather in Harajuku and sell their clothes there.

There is no place like Harajuku in Tokyo. One day I saw many many popstar posters over everywhere in Harajuku while I was shopping. I saw a huge billboard too, then suddenly I thought, "She needs me, she needs me".

When I landed in Los Angeles a car was waiting for me, "It's Gwen!". When we talked I knew my instinct was right. I had never been concious of being Japanese but in Gwen world I had to be aware of my nationality. It was great. I can express my background through HIP HOP dance which I love most in my life." (http://lamb.kuuchuu.net/)