Anonymous
10/25/2025, 12:45:25 AM
No.18573634
>>18573606
I'm neither, just a bystander. Can't answer the fortnite question. Broadly however, fashion is about broadcasting visual information, usually about oneself - your social class, allegiances, aspirations, politics, tastes etc., either through consumer choice or lack thereof. A lot can be said with just dyed hair, tattoos piercings or a red baseball cap and polo shirt and chinos. Japan is a metabrand, a whole cluster of associations, and as such can and is worn as fashion. I think OP's question is legitimate. Aspects of Japan and Japanese culture historically was employed to portray the foreign, the exotic and the alien, then in the 80s and 90s to portray futurism, dystopia, accelerationism. Anime is commonly synonymised with hyperconsumerism and otaku culture, while niche Japanese brands have preserved or accentuated aspects of western victorian refinement, and now preservation of Japanese traditions and population makeup are fetishised as totemic of ethnic purity. All these things, their popularity and proliferation, and what they broadcast, is fashion.
I'm neither, just a bystander. Can't answer the fortnite question. Broadly however, fashion is about broadcasting visual information, usually about oneself - your social class, allegiances, aspirations, politics, tastes etc., either through consumer choice or lack thereof. A lot can be said with just dyed hair, tattoos piercings or a red baseball cap and polo shirt and chinos. Japan is a metabrand, a whole cluster of associations, and as such can and is worn as fashion. I think OP's question is legitimate. Aspects of Japan and Japanese culture historically was employed to portray the foreign, the exotic and the alien, then in the 80s and 90s to portray futurism, dystopia, accelerationism. Anime is commonly synonymised with hyperconsumerism and otaku culture, while niche Japanese brands have preserved or accentuated aspects of western victorian refinement, and now preservation of Japanese traditions and population makeup are fetishised as totemic of ethnic purity. All these things, their popularity and proliferation, and what they broadcast, is fashion.