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Product Identifiers

PublisherPhaidon Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100714845108

ISBN-139780714845104

eBay Product ID (ePID)44173260

Product Key Features

Book TitleFresh Fruits

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFashion & Accessories, Popular Culture

Publication Year2005

IllustratorYes

FeaturesRevised

GenreDesign, Social Science

AuthorShoichi Aoki

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight28 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"A funky, funny look at Tokyo's teen street fashion - all Vivienne Westwood and DIY chic. Guaranteed to give you that happy-all-over-feeling."-- Elle "Crucial ingredients are cartoon, fluffy and frilly, matched with a scrupulous attention to detail... A jolly homage to innovation and the teen dreams of Japan."-- The Daily Telegraph "My Little Pony bags rub stomachs with the Tellytubbies in a kaleidoscopic candyfloss fantasy of arrested development. Fabulous... Don't read it with a hangover."-- Gay Times "Bright, wild and eccentric."-- Amateur Photographer "Vibrant and fascinating."-- Guardian, "A funky, funny look at Tokyo's teen street fashion - all Vivienne Westwood and DIY chic. Guaranteed to give you that happy-all-over-feeling."--Elle "Crucial ingredients are cartoon, fluffy and frilly, matched with a scrupulous attention to detail... A jolly homage to innovation and the teen dreams of Japan."--The Daily Telegraph "My Little Pony bags rub stomachs with the Tellytubbies in a kaleidoscopic candyfloss fantasy of arrested development. Fabulous... Don't read it with a hangover."--Gay Times "Bright, wild and eccentric."--Amateur Photographer "Vibrant and fascinating."--Guardian

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromEighth Grade

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal391.00952

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

Designed byNewell, Lucy

SynopsisPresented in an identical format to Phaidon's previous Fruits, published in 2001, Fruits Too is a collection of Tokyo teenage street fashion portraits selected from Japan's premier street fanzine of the same title. Published every month by Shoichi Aoki, who is also the sole photographer for the magazine, Fruits was established in 1994 as a project to document the growing explosion in street fashion within the suburbs of Tokyo. Over the last decade the magazine has grown to cult status and is now avidly followed by thousands of Japanese teenagers who also use the magazine as an opportunity to check out the latest styles and trends. The average age of those kids featured in the magazine is between 12 and 18 years old. Most of the clothes that they wear are a combination of high fashion - Vivienne Westwood is a keen favourite - and homemade ensembles which when combined together create a novel if not hysterical combination. This latest publication of the best of Fruits will follow the original Phaidon publication by including translations of the various Japanese captions that were originally attached to the photographs that list the name, age and clothing of each person photographed., A collection of Tokyo teenage street fashion portraits selected from the popular magazine of the same title. Follows the success of "Fruits (2001)., Following on from the enormous success of Fruits , Fresh Fruits features the latest from Tokyo based Fruits Magazine . Fresh Fruits uncovers how street fashion has changed in the downtown districts of Tokyo as seen through the eye of Japanese fashion photographer Shoichi Aoki. Sublime in its simplicity, Fresh Fruits captures the strange and often 'surreal' fashion sense of Japanese teenagers, This is a new collection of Tokyo teenage street fashion portraits selected from the popular magazine of the same title. Translations of original captions provide the subject's name, age, and the unique clothing being worn.

LC Classification NumberGT1560