a Japanese subculture that was extremely popular in the 1990s. With colourful clothing, exaggerated face contouring and oversized eyelashes, these women are borrowing from the aesthetic that made ...

Gyaru fashion and style, a vibrant Japanese subculture that first emerged in ... Rooted in the hyper-glamorous, bold aesthetic of early Y2K culture, the gyaru of old embodied a distinctly girl ...

Known as a masterpiece that elucidates Japanese aesthetics from the perspective of light and dark, his work continues to be read overseas as an excellent introduction to Japanese culture.

In the same vein as subcultures, some aesthetics or 'cores' do have common belief systems. 'Tomato Girls' are unified in their pursuit for the picture-perfect European summer. À la ...