FRUiTS Fashion Goes Conventional!
This isn’t really Japanese news…but it’s related and it’s on a personal note for me so just grin and bear it, ok?
Manifest is the Melbourne Anime Festival and my annual anime stomping ground. Every year they have a cosplay contest but this year they’re changing the rules a little bit.
From the website:
This year we have planned a special “FRuITS Fashion Competition” for the Friday of Manifest.
“The “FRUiTS look” could be summarized as combining traditional Japanese styles of dress with an irreverent approach to modifying and combining elements of clothing, accessories, and technology.”
Why?
Seeing as we only have Cosplay competitions on the weekend of Manifest where only Japanese anime/manga and video game characters are allowed, we wanted to take into account and support the ever growing Japanese fashion and acknowledge the hard work that some of our attendees go through to look good.
This competition is mainly for fun and hopes to relieve some of the pressure the weekend Cosplay Competitions may have.What can be entered?
For our competition we are allowing any form of “Japanese pop culture fashion” This includes, but isn’t limited to, Visual Kei & J-rock (take for example Mana) J-pop (Morning Misume) Elegant Gothic Lolita, Sweet Lolita, Ama-loli (basically any of the “lolita” styles), traditional Japanese clothing (kimonos and yukatas), school uniforms (fuku) Japanese punk styles, Harajuku, Decora, Kogal, “Fruit” style and many more. Own creations are encouraged, we understand that there are some people that can purchase beautiful garments from Japan @_@ but this will be greatly taken into account when judging.
If you read my ramblings regularly, you’ll know that I am a huge fan of the FRUiTS magazine and books so this is going to be great fun for me. I’ll be taking along my camera to take lots of pictures on how Australians interpret Japanese street fashions. Stay tuned in October!
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