GaijinPot goes to Harajuku to see the latest trends.
Our 1st fashionable girl is Yuko-san. Her fashion point is “Blue” and her recommended spot for foreigners is the popular fashion mall Laforet Harajuku, where she works.
Yuko-san
Yuko likes the five finger socks which are shown below. She says they are popular among foreign shoppers.
Five finger socks
Our next fashionable girls are from the Kansai area.
They recommend Horie and Umeda in Osaka and Kawara town in Kyoto. Their favorite brands are Jewel, Gallerie and Uniqlo (which has heat-tech clothes). They also want to know what foreigners in Japan recommend as their favorite styles.
Four girls from the Kansai area
Their fashion points are a leather denim jacket, collar accessory and studded boots (see pictures below).
Leather denim jacket and collar accessory
Studded boots
They like big buttons, animal prints and nail art (see picture below).
Nail art
Next, we meet Misaki-san. Her fashion point is orange and her preferred fashion area is Shimokitazawa.
Misaki-san
Her recommended item is a hair band (see the picture below).
Hair band
Next is Juicy-san who works at the apparel store HOPE CHEST in cat street. Naturally, she recommends cat street in Harajuku and Koenji.
Her fashion point is SNOID’s T-shirt (see picture below).
Juicy-san
She thinks foreigners would go for the vintage one-piece dress (see picture below).
Vintage one-piece dress
Also, she recommends the PUCCI print dress.
PUCCI print dress
They are available at Hope Chest at cat street.
The last snap features Kawauchi-san and Tomomi-san who are colleagues at the hair salon grico.
Their recommended fashion shop is MONOMANIA in Laforet Harajuku and their recommended item for foreigners is “Sukajyan” (glossy jacket).
Kawauchi-san, left, and Tomomi-san
Kawauchi-san said that today’s fashion point is the purple bag he has with him.
Kawauchi-san's hairstyle
Kawauchi-san’s hairstyle, seen from the side, is unique and funky. If you want a hairstyle like that, grico is the place to go.
