DATE:friday april 2 , 2004

ENGRISH OF THE DAY:

'sars' graffiti tag, harajuku

EVENT: a la mode night

Nurses who look like they’ve been practicing surgery on themselves, patients who think being broken is ‘cute’, plenty of fake blood and gauze bandages. . . stuffed animals that have suffered grevious bodily harm. . .these are some of the sights at tonight’s GOTHIC MEDICAL FETISH PARTY.

IRYOU FETCHI (medical fetish) is, as the saying goes, big in japan. It’s pretty funny. Most of the people here are 22 year old girls in art school who just think it’s cute, but there are maybe like 5 middleaged guys in dockers that are just super medical perverts?to them, this is better than a strip club.

There were the usual gothic shopping mall people. plus some amazing artists:

to see more of MIsaki Lune's wonderful messed-up doll art:

http://www.usabara.com/medicaldevil/

stuffed animal / fetus art:

http://www.geocities.jp/galvanic666/

Plus this band,

リリィ・ヴィヴィアン played. Their singer was an angel. A badly wounded angel, possibly someone who went to heaven after some kind of industrial accident. She was toting a blood-drenched snoopy doll on a chain. The music, though, was straight-up mainstream rock ballads of a kind Tom Petty would approve. Huh?

After リリィ・ヴィヴィアン , the ubiquitous jyo-nen played again. This time, in addition to her usual mummy costume, she was outfitted with fuzzy pink bunny ears AND a ‘hannibal lechter’ mask.

Then there was a fashion show for the new clothing line called ALICE LIDEL. It’s pretty advanced ? each outfit for sale comes with its own persona: age, blood type, mission statement, etc. it’s basically ‘cosplay’ where the costumes were invented BEFORE the characters.

i know, this seems like a lame report. but this is only HALF THE REPORT. most of the writing AND ALL THE PHOTOS are on the gallery page, because er, you really need to see the pictures to understand what all is going on. go! go,my little monkey! go to the GALLERY PAGE. for photos from the event, click here.

links:

ALICE LIDEL fashion site is here:

http://3.pro.tok2.com/~alidel/

click ‘character’ to see the garb.

PROJECT MARIA gothic fanzine website (but not the zine itself, which is print)

http://projectmaria.fc2web.com/

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