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Title: Fruits by Shoichi Aoki ISBN: 0-7148-4083-1 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 06 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (48 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Dizzying array of Japanese eye candy!
Comment: This brilliant book isn't fancy fashion photography--it's a series of slides that are made purposely for documentation. The subjects are clearly lit, always centred in the frame. Each page has a little bit of text in the corners--the model's name and age (13 to 25 seems to be the range here), favorite fashion, and "current obsession". Some of the answers to these bare-bones questions are amusing, but the focus and attraction of this book is outlandish streetwear.
And what streetwear! Camden town isn't a tenth as inventive. A dizzying array of styles and colours from head to feet; a mixture of cultures--a Japanese skinhead in suede cowboy chaps; kimonos worn with monster-fur boots; a bevy of little girls who are living dolls; an unintentionally ironic set of identically-dressed "punks"--every page is different from the rest. If you're the least bit interested in costuming and contemporary fashion, BUY THIS BOOK NOW! What a delight and inspiration!
Rating: 5
Summary: ai candy
Comment: _Fruits_ is a collection of photos exhibiting the various fashions of Japanese subculture, primarily those found in the Harajuku district of Tokyo. It's eye-opening to see a culture where there is no perception of "normal clothes". Bright colors, interesting textures, and lots of layers are used to create an outfit which seems outlandish to conservative American dress but is just plain cool to look at. I enjoy going through this book because it questions what society establishes as the norm for clothing. I'm going through a phase where I want to be different in how I dress and look, and I somehow relate to all the youth in this book, with their candy-colored hair, angel wings, and platform shoes. I passed around this book to my other "alternative" friends and they loved it. It is pricey, but the photos are of a very high quality and you'll find yourself picking it up over and over to read the profiles and look at the wonderful outfits.
Rating: 1
Summary: Fruits is a Fraud
Comment: Fruits purports to be photos of people picked at random from the streets based on their unusual outfits. In my opinion, all the subjects are models, dressed by a designer. Maybe they thought that westerners would not notice that all or most of the women and men subjects are photographed more than once. Some show up again and again. In my opinion, the photographs are staged and the outfits are not the creations of the people who are photographed. Notice too, how all the outfits are top notch from head to toe. You would expect to see a few ugly or poor decisions if the photos were of real people. Take a look if you are interested in how to try and dupe the public.
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Title: Tokyo: A Certain Style by Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Kyaichi Tsuzuki, Kyoichi Tsuki ISBN: 0811824233 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Image Factory : Fads and Fashions in Japan by Donald Richie, Roy Garner ISBN: 1861891539 Publisher: Reaktion Books Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Fruits Postcards by Shoichi Aoki ISBN: 0714843350 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Jam: Tokyo-London by Abrams ISBN: 1861542119 Publisher: Booth-Clibborn Editions Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Takashi Murakami : The Meaning of the Nonsense of the Meaning by Dana Friis-Hansen, Amanda Cruz, Midori Matsui ISBN: 0810967022 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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