%0 Journal Article
%T Power Play and Performance in Harajuku
%A Amelia Groom
%J New Voices : A Journal for Emerging Scholars of Japanese Studies in Australia and New Zealand
%D 2011
%I The Japan Foundation, Sydney
%X This article analyses the structures and implications of Japan¡¯s contemporary street fashion cultures, primarily those of Harajuku. Using Roland Barthes¡¯ analogy of dress and dressing it situates the radical subcultural styles within traditional Japanese aesthetics and in a wider history of fashion. Examining various motifs from kawaisato uniforms, cross-dressing, masks and the politics of second-hand fashion, it deals with theories of authenticity, appearance and agency.
%K Japanese fashion
%K Harajuku
%K performance
%K 
%K identity
%K subculture
%U http://pdf.jpf-sydney.org/newvoices/4/chapter9.pdf