Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco

New Rave "Hoodie"

This morning i was thinking about popular fashion. The "hoodie" has become the most popluar and versatile garment an individual can wear. One can look smart, "gangsta", introverted, dressy or comfortable in a hoodie. New rave is one of the many latest fashion trends involving a revival of pyschadelic rave fashion trends from the late eighties and early nineties. I went on Google images and searched for "new rave hoodie" to find the ideal outfit for modern culture. This is what i found...



Eat it while it's hot everyone!

children's chinese new years hats

Chinese children's hats

Bashi-Bazouk by John Leon Gerome

worth 1,000 words dot com

Hope these inspire trends. I'm already working on a pierced prosthetic beak and flamboyantly flaming Mohawk! Eat it while it's hot.

Photographs by Alex Brown

Papua New Guinea

Mark Patrick

Himba Woman and children of Namibia.

Identity by design

Native women's dresses.

mayes c. rubeo

mayan costumes for apacolypto designed by mayes c. rubeo.

Japanese Ganguro Girls

GANGURO GIRLS

Ganguro falls into the larger subculture of gyaru (from English "gal"), a slang term used for various groups of young women, usually referring to overly childish or rebellious girls. Researchers in the field of Japanese studies believe that ganguro is a form of revenge against traditional Japanese society due to resentment of neglect, isolation, and constraint of Japanese society. This is their attempt at individuality, self-expression, and freedom, in open defiance of school standards and regulations.^[1] The deep ganguro tan is in direct conflict with traditional Japanese ideas of feminine beauty. Due to this, as well as their use of slang, unconventional fashion sense, and perceived lack of hygiene, ganguro gals are almost always portrayed negatively by the Japanese media.[citation needed]

Cosplayers

Cosplay (コスプレ, kosupure), short for "costume play",^[1] is a type of performance art whose participants outfit themselves, with often-elaborate costumes and accessories, as a specific character.
Cosplay participants ("cosplayers") form a subculture centered around wearing their costumes and reenacting scenes or inventing likely behavior inspired by their chosen sources. In some circles, the term cosplay has been broadened to include simply wearing a costume, without special consideration given to enacting characters in a performance context.
Conventions in America often include both cosplay and costume contests.^[10] The cosplay, or "masque", (masquerade) is a skit contest done in cosplay costume. The costume contest is often a test of skill, design, and audience reaction. The contestants are judged either beforehand or on stage and then walk across said stage while the audience cheers (or not, depending on the etiquette of the venue). The increased popularity of convention costuming has led to the addition of several relatively new cosplay-based events, adding to the traditional masquerade and hall costume contests. Such events include the Anime Dating Game and Cosplay Human Chess, where participating cosplayers act out their characters' role in the game accordingly.

Dear Material viewers,
I'm starting a Cosplay subculture. Who wants in?!


American Cosplayers imitating Japanese cartoon characters.



















-Erik Recendez

Moriko Mori

Photographs by Japanese artists Moriko Mori.