Alice Auaa Gothic Lolita

Alice Auaa was established in 1995 by the self-taught Osaka-based designer Yasutaka Funakoshi after he had spent two years importing Punk, Fetish, New Wave and Gothic clothes from London. While Alice Auaa promotes itself via magazines resembling the enduring Gothic & Lolita Bible, its concern with S&M, bondage and Gothic horror set it aside from mainstream Gothic Lolita labels.

Asymmetric coat
Shirt and excessive collar
Bondage breeches
Hat
Rosary necklace
Leggings

Prisila
Wig
Walking cane
Buttoned ankle boots

Japanese avenue fashion: Gothic Lolita
Gothic Lolita emerged through the 1990s, impressed by the theatrical outfits worn by members of Visual Kei rock bands. One of essentially the most influential of those was Malice Mizer (1992–2001), whose chief Mana established the Moi-même-Moitié style label in 1999. Visual Kei and Gothic Lolita owe a lot to the 1980s British Gothic Rock scene and the androgyny related to David Bowie, Marc Bolan and their New Romantic successors. Despite their typically ghoulish look, Gothic Lolitas are not any much less involved with innocence and cuteness than their Sweet Lolita counterparts.

Part of the V&A exhibition – Kitty and the Bulldog: Lolita style and the affect of Britain
(23 April 2012 – 27 January 2013)
Kitty and the Bulldog explores the way in which through which British style – notably Victoriana, Punk and Gothic – has influenced the event of Japan’s ‘Lolita’ fashion, a cult style motion whose defining characteristic has been its preoccupation with cuteness, or ‘kawaii’. The show options 9 outfits lately purchased in Tokyo for the V&A’s everlasting collections.

[All descriptions above taken from the V&A]

Posted by failing_angel on 2012-07-21 21:12:46

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