Rogue Gone Vogue: Harajuku Girls

Harajuku is a district in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
Harajuku, for those of you who don’t know, is the Fashion Capital of Tokyo.

But after my experience, I have learned that that statement is just a broad generalisation.
I think -Tokyo- is The Fashion Capital of Japan, because everywhere you look you see style.

Harajuku is just a part of it!
But what a part it plays: It's the largest puzzle of vivacious streets teeming with young boys and girls wearing or buying all kinds of fashion.

It’s a ‘Business of Fashion' case study in itself; low market hand-made-and-sold clothes in a pop up store, while around the corner live the monstrous Tokyo Flagship complexes of Luxury Brands: Gucci, Coach, and Louis Vuitton.

The strip where Harajuku is it's liveliest is actually called Takeshita Street.
I spent my time there flitting between stores and asking to take Harajuku Girls’ photograph.

The crowds were a challenge.
It was like when H&M collaborates with any given designer and people are buzzing from rack to till.
Although I was almost trampled on: there was shared sense of excitement, sisterhood and most prominently: a shared love for fashion.

Harajuku wouldn't be Harajuku without the amazing and interesting people who walk it's streets:

Like when I locked eyes with a young sheepish Harajuku girl, who I caught examining my foreign outfit and face.

Or when I was caught, jaw-agape, with a left-to-right stare, on a girl wearing platform creepers taller than my head.

Be it on the racks on on the people; we were a stylish chorus, as well as a colourful mess.

So without further ado; here is my celebration of those Harajuku Girls…