THE TOKYO STREETS HAVE EYES…FASHION HAS GONE MAD FOR EYEBALLS…WHY AND WHERE DID THAT HAPPEN?!
石を蹴れば目玉に当たる？！東京のストリートを席巻する“目玉”ファッション。でもこのトレンドって、いつから始まったんでしょう？ If you’re living in Tokyo and plugged into the street scene there is one thing that if you see one more of you’re going to kick it till it bleeds: eyeballs. Not human eyeballs, mind you, but a cartoonish eyeball that is the centerpiece for both fashion and accessories in Harajuku street fashion.
ねじってるなら、一風変わったなら、ゲロいなら、そりゃきっと可愛いから IF IT’S TWISTED, IF IT’S DEMENTED, IF IT’S DISGUSTING THEN IT’S SURE TO BE KAWAII.
Kawaii is an epidemic. It is everywhere. In my breakfast. On my nails. In my pro-vegetable commercials (see here). “Kawaii” has always been a part of the Japanese culture, and it sucked me in a long time ago, too (Hello Kitty seduced me with her big eyes when I was 10. Grounds for arrest!). But