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Are you going to Tokyo? If you are, keep an eye out for people sporting these crazy and colourful Japanese fashion trends in ...
Gyaru is a Japanese­ fashion subculture that emerged in the 1970s and likely drew inspiration from the Bōsōzoku and Sukeban cultures. Mostly referred to women, Gyarus sported colorful makeup ...
Gyaru fashion and style, a vibrant Japanese subculture that first emerged in the 90s, is making a well-deserved fashionable ...
Gyaru as a concept somewhat crops up in anime, like Momo and her friends in Dandadan, but the subculture, like the fashion of Harajuku, deserves more prominence in media lest it eventually die out.
For much of the 1990s and 2000s, it seemed that you couldn’t walk down a street in any major shopping district in Japan without spotting a group of "gyaru" chatting enthusiastically about…something.
Gyaru is a subculture that originated in Japan in the 1970s and adopted by non-conformist-leaning women who rejected the traditional beauty standards expected of women in Japan. This style became ...
Their style was brash and loud ... of my international anime contacts that these women were known locally as “gyaru girls.” I was told that “gyaru are bad girls,” so being the ignorant ...
New generations are taking ironic joy in partying in the past. Look no further than the reboot of gyaru fashion mainstay Love Boat, which has been revived from the fashion mortuary by cheap and ...
For much of the 1990s and 2000s, it seemed that you couldn’t walk down a street in any major shopping district in Japan without spotting a group of "gyaru" chatting enthusiastically about…something.