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Posted on October 16, 2011. Filed under: anime, Consuming, costume, Japan, manga, pictures | Tags: Barbie, Dior, Fashion dolls, Gisaburo Sugii, Givenchy, Hello Kitty, Kawaii! JeNny, Leiji Matsumoto, Madhouse, Mia Ikumi, Miyako Maki, Powerpuff Girls, Sailor Moon, Super Doll Licca-chan, Takara Jenny, Toho, Ultraman, Vampire Princess Miyu, Yuming |
Anime TV series are not just about selling toys to little boys. To prove it, here’s a post on two anime series about real fashion dolls.
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Posted on October 2, 2011. Filed under: anime, Consuming, costume, films, history, Japan | Tags: anime, Anime UK, Edo era, Eiichi Yamamoto, Ihara Saikaku, Keiji Ishikawa, Koshoku Ichidai Otoko, Manga Video, Mikiharu Akabori, Original Video Animation, Western Connection, Yukio Abe |
A movie lost in time, like tears in rain: The Sensualist, Yukio Abe’s ravishing 1991 anime version of Ihara Saikaku’s 1682 novel Life of an Amorous Man
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Posted on August 17, 2011. Filed under: anime, appearances, Consuming, costume, Creating, events, Japan, manga, needlework, pictures, workshops | Tags: anime, AnimeIowa, Chris Ayres, conventions, cosplay, Doctor Who, ferrets, Greg Ayres, Jan Scott-Frazier, Kyle Hebert, Lea Hernandez, Madame de Pompadour, manga, Manga Cross Stitch, natsukashii, Robert Axelrod, Satoshi Kon, The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga |
Noisy, joyous, full of life. Reading old radio plays with Kyle Hebert at the helm. Hanging out with Jan Scott-Frazier. Dinner with the Brothers Ayres. Meeting Lea Hernandez again for the first time in sixteen years. Rubber ducky racing. Host and maid cafes. Judging the Masquerade and gaping at some lovely cosplay (including my first-ever [...]
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Posted on June 4, 2011. Filed under: anime, appearances, costume, events, Japan, manga, needlework, pictures, writing | Tags: anime, Anime Hell, Anime North, Anime UK, Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, Canada, Carl Macek, Claude Pelletier, Corinne Orr, cosplay, Doctor Who, Ed Miliband, Frank Miller, Fred Ladd, Go Nagai, Hayao Miyazaki, iPad, Jan Howard Finder, manga, Manga Cross Stitch, Momiji Award, Peter Fernandez, Pokemon, Takayuki Matsutani, The Beguiling |
Anime North was my first visit to Canada, and it was a blast. They gave me an award, but that was only the beginning.
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Posted on October 24, 2010. Filed under: anime, appearances, costume, events, manga, travel, writing | Tags: Akira, anime, Anime Los Angeles, Anime UK, Christopher Priest, Eastcon 90, Eastercon, Fist of the North Star, Fred Patten, Gerry Anderson, Katsuhiro Otomo, Los Angeles, manga, Manga Entertainment, Peter Goll, Philip Strick, science fiction, Space Battleship Yamato, Star Trek Correspondence Club |
Helen’s fannish past is long gone, but not forgotten, as a recent convention invitation shows.
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Posted on October 15, 2010. Filed under: Consuming, costume, designing, events, history, Japan | Tags: Astro Boy, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Cinema, Erté, Fortuny, GirlsWorld, Hiroaki Ohya, Janek Schaefer, Japan, Japanese street fashion, Junya Watanabe, Madeleine Vionnet, manga, Paul Poiret, Rei Kawakubo, Satoshi Kon, Sou Fujimoto Architects, Yohji Yamamoto |
Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion is at the Barbican Art Gallery until February 2011. Everyone interested in Japanese culture should see it.
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Posted on October 3, 2010. Filed under: anime, books, comics, Consuming, costume, events, Japan, manga, travel | Tags: anime, Brick Lane, cosplay, events in London, HyperJapan, Japanese food, Lolita, manga, sake, travel to Japan |
This weekend has been marked by constant contrasts between dream, reality, and their interface. We spend most of our time in that liminal space, walking the line between our dreams and our reality, trying to keep a footing on the slippery thread stretched between illusion and delusion. Yesterday I went to Hyper Japan, an extravaganzical [...]
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Posted on January 16, 2010. Filed under: costume, history, needlework | Tags: 20th century German modern art, Agnes Richter, Carl Schneider, Heidelberg University, historic embroidery, mental illness art therapy, Nazi artist murder, outsider art, Prinzhorn Collection |
Outsider art from the inside – an astonishing collection of works by psychiatric patients.
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Posted on August 22, 2009. Filed under: Consuming, costume, Creating, films, history, manga | Tags: Christopher Reeve, Dangerous Liaisons, Dion Clayton Clathrop, Goro Miyazaki, historical costume, Janet Arnold, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Michael Curtiz, Michelle Pfeiffer, Somewhere in Time, The Tudors |
Glitz, glamour, rumpy-pumpy and religious reformation – yes, The Tudors is back on TV, and it still has about as much to do with history as Big Brother does with decorum. Does it matter?
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Posted on July 27, 2009. Filed under: books, Consuming, costume, Creating, Japan, manga, travel | Tags: CLAMP, costume history, Dark Horse Comics, Ghostbusters, how to wear kimono, Janet Arnold, Japan, Liza Dalby, manga, Mokona, Norio Yamanaka |
An English-language edition of a CLAMP kimono book reminds us that clothes are more than decorative objects: they help us read a society’s history, dreams and secrets.
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