Japan is the trendsetter of fashion in Asia together with Korea. The way of fashion and lifestyle in Japan even get awards and notification from world. Who don’t know the centre of fashion in Tokyo such as Harajuku and Shibuya ?Therefore, the largest Fashion channel in the world, FTV, has spreaded its branch into Japan since 2008.

From 1 December 2008, the president of Fashion TV, Michel Adam, announced that FTV is now available to 3.3 million homes in Japan, on Skyperfect and Skyperfect e2 systems direct to viewers home systems.

Fashion TV will now cover the latest Japanese appearance and affairs letters from Japan and will advertisement them all over the world. 3.3 actor homes in Japan can now accept FTV and anon there will be abounding added as negotiations with cable and IPTV operators continue.

Japan represents a above bazaar that loves appearance and brands. The association who now see FTV via skyperfect are demographically the a lot of avant-garde and internationally absent from the Japanese examination accessible and will absolutely embrace FTV in Japan.

Viewers will be able to acquaintance FTV anon in their active rooms, gyms, hair salons, clubs and cafes. Fascinating ceaseless letters about fashion, models, photographers, parties and affairs from all over the world.

In the next few months, FTV affairs to barrage a appropriate high-definition adaptation of FTV for Japan. Japan represents a above bazaar that loves appearance and top brands, the 3.3 actor homes that now see FTV via Skyperfect are demographically the a lot of avant-garde and internationally absent from the Japanese examination accessible and will absolutely embrace FTV in Japan.

About FTV (Fashion TV)

Fashion TV Channel is broadcast in 202 countries to over 300 million households across the 5 continents; it is the only 24-hour fashion beauty & lifestyle television station worldwide. Based in Paris, France since 1997, Fashion TV is streamed through 38 satellites and thousand of cable operators and its content focuses on fashion shows, backstage access, photographers, models and celebrities, with 500 hours of new programs every year, 300 catwalks, and 600 new clips every season.

Founded in France in 1997 by its Polish-born president Michel Adam Lisowski, Fashion TV is the only 24/7 international TV network exclusively dedicated to fashion, beauty, glamour and style and has become one of the most widely-distributed satellite channels in the world: 31 satellite and 2,000 cable systems, with a total of 500 million households in 193 countries across the five continents.

Today, Fashion TV is a multi-media platform offering the most comprehensive and fastest review of global fashion is independently owned and operated from the headquarters in Paris, London and Vienna.

Michel Adam, President FTV

Watch Japan Fashion Week 2010-2011 at FTV Japan video here

Shibuya (渋谷) is a famous district in Tokyo, known as one of the fashion centers of Japan, particularly for young people, and as a major nightlife area. Along with Harajuku, Shibuya is recognized as the center of youth culture and youth fashion in Japan. Shibuya is located on the Yamanote Line between Harajuku and Ebisu in the Shibuya-ku Ward of Tokyo. Shibuya’s streets came alive with performance art, music and sculpture for “Art Re-Public Tokyo”.

Now Shibuya’s streets had a different style, a more lively with performance art, music and sculpture for “Art Re-Public Tokyo”. One hot Golden Week afternoon, a 110 metre stretch of street in Shibuya was turned into a public art carnival for the “Art Re-Public Tokyo”. There was music from the likes of Soil & “Pimp” Sessions and Toast Girl, performance art, live painting, and exhibits of everything from children’s picture books to sculpture.

We can see a unique style of Japanese people to describe their art and culture, including a few photos and a video clip of performances by, among others, the baguette-handed Toast Girl.

For most of the sunny Golden Week afternoon there was live music from the likes of Soil & “Pimp” Sessions, artists displaying their works, and all kinds of bizarre performance art happenings.

Visitor can see Toast Girl again, along with large inflated black rabbits, old men fishing in the street (Tange Kouki’s performance installation “Kusou turibito” [Daydream Fishermen]), and some peculiar guys in silver alien suits (Yuu Satou’s “horn man”)…Yes, despite the “Flower Festival” theme it felt a bit random to us, not least the appearance of pink and cute-but-scary Gloomy Bear.

Art Re-Public Tokyo, an event that turned the stretch of road between Marui City and Tower Records into an art free-for-all.

Shibuya goes street music, performances: Art Re-Public Tokyo

A rare sight in Shibuya: the street between OI City and Tower Records shut off to traffic.

‘Black Usagi’ by Oak To All Relations

One of the themes of the festival was nature and Mother Earth. Hiromi Nakajima’s drawings are half-buried in greenery.

Seen last year at the then-newly opened Nanzuka Underground gallery in Shirokane, ‘Family’ by Akiyoshi Mishima seemed a bit isolated in the open air.

A performance by Oak To All Relations involved foil costumes, paint, masking tap…and inflated black creatures.

These gentlemen seem very lost at sea, or even rather marooned. Tange Kouki’s ‘Kusou Tsuribito’.

Delicate wire sculptures, ‘Vanishing Figure’ by Etori Kenji.

Yuu Satou’s ‘horn man’ occasionally moved, in tandem with a friend, or simply alone.

Watch Art Re-Public Tokyo — Toast Girl Video

The video recorded at May 4, 2010. Shibuya’s streets turned into a music and performance art carnival. Participants included Toast Girl and Soil & “Pimp” Sessions.

Lolita is a first used as a Vladimir Nabokov’s famous sexy novel, but later used as a fashion style especially in Japan fashion. Lolita style used to be a sexual cosplay fashion, altough now most followers of the style do not consider it overtly sexual. It’s not a movement about a sexual style. In point of fact, there is less skin showing in this fashion style than in most others worn by young people.

Lolita can not be seperated with Gothic. Gothic Lolita (known in Japan as gosurori, “goth-loli”) is a mixture of the Gothic and Lolita fashion. The origins of the Japanese Gothic style can be traced back to the English New Wave Movement during the 1980s: however, the Japanese Gothic scene is fundamentally different from the Gothic subcultures of the west.This Gothic fashion has been adopted into the Lolita fashion through the use of darker make up, clothing, and themes in the design.

‘Gothloli’, as it’s known, has been around in Japan in one form or another since the late 70s. Currently, the fashion has several sub-branches that mix gothic, punk and Victorian styles in various ratios, from the sweet lolitas in their pristine paniered skirts to the slashed, splattered and tattered rags of the guro goths.

Why people wear Lolita ?
The young men and women dress in a fashion related to the Victorian era, in a style that the dolls of the time were dressed in. They want to show their protest and rebel against the constraints still put upon Japanese women. Basically, there’s a lot of reasons and explanations why people choose this fashion style.

Lolita has many styles and types such as :

1. Sweet Lolita: Pink and white are the main colors with lots of frills and lace. They young women will carry around teddy bears, parasols and other things which increase even further the cuteness quotient. It has a very, very innocent look to it, nothing challenging or nasty at all. (There is some argument about this, though, in that some sources say that carrying toys around shifts the style into kawaii and not lolita.)

2. Gothic Lolita: Again, there is a tendency to confuse terms. Using the word “Gothic” would cause many people to think along the lines of safety pins, all-black clothing and nasty behavior, but in the fashion sense only the all-black is actually used, and even a mix of black and white clothing will be found. The accessories carried around include purses and parasols. There is some argument I’ve seen about other colors; some sources say darker sheds of red, green, blue and purple will also be used, and other sources say it’s almost totally limited to black and white or all-black clothing.

3. Gothic Aristocrat: This is a more mature look than the above two forms, the people looking quite aristocratic in their dress.

4. Kodona: This is a more male-oriented fashion

5. British Aristocrat/Dandy: a more adult version of Kodona.

6. Wa-Lolita: A mix of the Lolita fashions with the more traditional kimono and yukata fashions.

7. Classic Lolita : Classic Lolita is a more mature style of Lolita that focuses on Baroque, Regency, and Rocaille styles. Colors and patterns used in classic Lolita can be seen as somewhere between the Gothic and sweet styles; it is not as dark as Gothic Lolita, but not as cutesy as sweet Lolita.

8. Punk Lolita : Punk Lolita (or Lolita Punk) adds punk fashion elements to Lolita fashion. Motifs that are usually found in punk clothing, such as tattered fabric, ties, safety pins and chains, screen-printed fabrics, plaids, and short, androgynous hairstyles are incorporated into the Lolita look.

Lolita fashion can be even considered a movement where girls ranging from pre-teens to late 20′s fight the current fashion with modesty. It allows a girl to feel young, cute, beautiful or off- limits, depending on which type of Lolita a girl chooses to be

A girl with a Lolita Fashion

Elegant Gothic Lolita

You can buy gothic lolita fasion in many shops at Japan. There are many shops along Takeshita Street in Harajuku that offers pre-assembled outfits to fit in with the cool kids on Omotesando. One outfit can cost about $300.

Watch Japan Gothic Lolita style in Harajuku Tokyo Video here