How a cute Japanese icon turned into a $6b industry
AP Kitty’s popularity is emblematic of the global craze for cute things. In Japan the phenomenon, known as kawaii, dates back ...
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Lolita style, explained: Why the Japanese-born, Victorian-inspired street style enchants women around the world
Not a “Lolita” in the Nabokovian sense, the woman was an adult dressed in Lolita fashion ... and drawing art based on the Japanese countercultural styles she saw within them — the clothes, she assumed ...