Chanel Cruise 2012 "The Tale of a Fairy" Dir. Karl Lagerfeld

Japanese fashion

So you think ugg's&crocs are strange fashion trends?? Thing again. I had a cool idea to start making fashion trends posts. There are so many different styles in the world and ill bring them to you! Today comes the first post and it is about Ganguro! I like to call them asian snookies!

Ganguro (Kanji：顔黒 Hiragana: がんぐろ Katakana: ガングロ lit. "Black Face", pronounced 'ganguro') is an alternative fashion trend of blonde or orange hair and tanned skin among young Japanese women that peaked in popularity around the year 2000. The Shibuya and Ikebukuro districts of Tokyo were the centers of ganguro fashion.-Wiki

Now more about it:
Ganguro appeared as a new fashion style in Japan in the early 1990s and to date is prevalent mostly among young women. In ganguro fashion, a deep tan is combined with hair dyed in shades of orange to blonde, or a silver grey known as "high bleached". Black ink is used as eye-liner and white concealer is used as lipstick and eye shadow. False eyelashes, plastic facial gems, and pearl powder are often added to this. Platform shoes and brightly-colored outfits complete the ganguro look. Also typical of ganguro fashion are tie-dyed sarongs, miniskirts, stickers on the face, and many bracelets, rings, and necklaces.

Ganguro falls into the larger subculture of gyaru (from English "gal"), a slang term used for various groups of young women, usually referring to overly childish or rebellious girls. Researchers in the field of Japanese studies believe that ganguro is a form of revenge against traditional Japanese society due to resentment of neglect, isolation, and constraint of Japanese society. This is their attempt at individuality, self-expression, and freedom, in open defiance of school standards and regulations. The ganguro culture is often linked with para para, a Japanese dance style. However, most para para dancers are not ganguro, and most ganguro are not para para dancers, though there are many who are ganguro or gal and dance para para.
One of the most famous early ganguro girls was known as Buriteri, nicknamed after the black soy sauce used to flavor yellowtail fish in teriyaki cooking. Egg made her a star by frequently featuring her in its pages during the height of the ganguro craze. After modelling and advertising for the Shibuya tanning salon "Blacky", social pressure and negative press convinced Buriteri to retire from the ganguro lifestyle.

Want to look like a Ganguro girl, but don't know how? Well no problem, wikihow will always help with stuff like that.
http://www.wikihow.com/Look-Like-a-Ganguro-Girl
What to wear, how to do the make-up, tips, things you'll need and much more!

I don't want to sound offensive now but if a person looking like that would walk towards me on street, id shit my pants.

Lady Gaga - V Magazine 2011

For all the Gaga fans out there, V loves her as much as you do!
This is the cover of Asian V Mag.

Shot by Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
All i can say is interesting, would have expected more of her tbh.

Freddy