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Creating Kawaii and Lolita Culture: CUTiE and Olive Magazines

Creating Kawaii and Lolita Culture: CUTiE and O...

For the young creatives in Japan in the 1980’s there were two magazines that directly influenced the styling and fashion culture, CUTiE and Olive. Olive Magazine Olive magazine embodied the...

Creating Kawaii and Lolita Culture: CUTiE and O...

For the young creatives in Japan in the 1980’s there were two magazines that directly influenced the styling and fashion culture, CUTiE and Olive. Olive Magazine Olive magazine embodied the...

Fashion Scans From Style Deficit Disorder

Fashion Scans From Style Deficit Disorder

These scans will ultimately be part of a larger research project for looking at consumer capitalism within exchange of fashion culture between Japan and France. These scans are of COMME...

Fashion Scans From Style Deficit Disorder

These scans will ultimately be part of a larger research project for looking at consumer capitalism within exchange of fashion culture between Japan and France. These scans are of COMME...

Gorpcore and its Cultural Influences

Gorpcore and its Cultural Influences

Named after hiker’s favorite trail snack “Good Ol’ Raisins and Peanuts.” Gorpcore includes a strong hiking aesthetic that is built and layered for a more urban lifestyle. This aesthetic combines...

Gorpcore and its Cultural Influences

Named after hiker’s favorite trail snack “Good Ol’ Raisins and Peanuts.” Gorpcore includes a strong hiking aesthetic that is built and layered for a more urban lifestyle. This aesthetic combines...

Fashion and Culture in the French Anime Code Lyoko

Fashion and Culture in the French Anime Code Lyoko

Code Lyoko is a French cartoon created by Thomas Romain and Tania Palumbo and produced by the MoonScoop Group. At the beginning of the story, Jeremy Belpois finds a super-computer...

Fashion and Culture in the French Anime Code Lyoko

Code Lyoko is a French cartoon created by Thomas Romain and Tania Palumbo and produced by the MoonScoop Group. At the beginning of the story, Jeremy Belpois finds a super-computer...

Digital Fashion's new Material Expression

Digital Fashion's new Material Expression

Digital fashion and 3D CLO modeling has been all the fashion community has been able to talk about recently and for good reason. Not only is it breaking barriers of...

Digital Fashion's new Material Expression

Digital fashion and 3D CLO modeling has been all the fashion community has been able to talk about recently and for good reason. Not only is it breaking barriers of...

Fall Winter 2021

Fall Winter 2021

This article is originally written for the College of Wooster Voice a student newspaper, November 2021: "Voice Fall/Winter Mood board and Fashion Viewpoint"             As the Ohio fall gets colder,...

Fall Winter 2021

This article is originally written for the College of Wooster Voice a student newspaper, November 2021: "Voice Fall/Winter Mood board and Fashion Viewpoint"             As the Ohio fall gets colder,...