Entry 08 - Japanese Street Culture Lolita

Japan street style is one of the top most attention fashion in the world. While the style are playing with vibrant colors and also different types of costume. Besides that, japanese has also others subculture such as the Lolita, Lolita are the style that most people who agree with it. Lolita are originate based on Victorian era style, french rococo period, gothic inspired darkness and a cosplay of japanese anime. Despite that, this style are a interracial of the eastern and western.

However, the pattern on the gown are cute animals, little fruits sweet dessert everything that's small and cute, by wearing it, you will also become cute". While the original shape of the dress and length are "cupcakes" shape, while cupcakes are sweet and delighted. Nowadays, Lolita fashion are now invaded to different country as subculture to become "cute".

Referencing

The Lolita Complex: a Japanese fashion subculture and its paradoxes. [online] Available at: http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/2448 [Accessed: 6 Aug 2013].

 Beat, T. 2013. A Gothic Lolita speaks. [online] Available at: http://comicsbeat.com/a-gothic-lolita-speaks/ [Accessed: 6 Aug 2013].

Entry 07 - In vogue : China

Vogue, is an american fashion and lifestyle that is publish monthly.
While China has launched during 2005, while previous post about china market were mentioning that Chinese market were just started to take a step forwards to luxury and lifestyles.
The editor of the Vogue China is Angelica Cheung, she is a mother role at home and a powerful person in the world fashion industry.

How Vogue China portray women as a representative?

Angelica Cheung believe that, become a modern woman would be a whole idea of being an independent woman. Despite of that, Vogue China woman's are portray as an independent woman,  yet to empowered the feminism in China. In China, for woman; definitely will be a tough challenge to go ahead in a male dominated country. While Vogue's has become a helping of empower women and teaches them more that just top fashion. Cheung stated that " Even though i like magazine, we are more than a woman magazines. We're not here to sell clothes, Otherwise it's difficult to keep that passion for long".



How did Vogue China change the view of fashion?

While China are one of the conservative country, traditional Chinese culture that been called "old fashioned"
are going through a revival. Despite that peoples are trying for a new way to express and interpret the new "traditional Chinese culture" as it will be not the same with the "old fashioned" tradition. Nowadays alot of fashion designers in China are brainstorming to find that voice that is representing the oriental and international, that suits the modern lifestyle.

Vogue China as a feminism.

Vogue China is the very first vogue that is emphasizing the identity of a woman. With this, Vogue china are trying to bring out not just the appearance but also the inner part. What means by inner part? Inner part means by, even though you have the best fashion tool on your body, yet you have not the confidence to convince people to face the crowd. Vogue china teaches Vogues women by sharing how women maintain their life and also their positive emotion.

A representative of actress.

A representative from model

Referencing

Chathamhouse.org. 2013. Angelica Cheung, editor of Vogue China, on how the West has got Chinese fashion wrong | Chatham House: Independent thinking on international affairs. [online] Available at: http://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/twt/archive/view/189209 [Accessed: 6 Aug 2013].

The Independent. 2012. Meet the woman making China fashionable. [online] Available at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/meet-the-woman-making-china-fashionable-8393579.html [Accessed: 6 Aug 2013].

Entry 06 - Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons

Rei Kawakubo 

She was a Japanese fashion designer, founder of Comme des Garcons. 

How great she is to influences the western society.
“Everyone is influenced by Comme des Garcons,” Marc Jacobs told Women’s Wear Daily
How did she influence people to change the perception on different way looking of women wears?
In 1997, she question out of the very shape of a woman bodies. It been know as the Bump collection, it deformed the silhoutte with Quasimodo-style padded lumps placed strangely and strategically on model's back, shoulder and hips.  This has actually influenced the Western perspective on body adornment and the meaning of cloth.

Besides that she had also changed the France fashion world by turning conservative thinking of dress could not be black (black was not a color to be worn during the day or to be used on dress during that time). In fact, she also created another version of cloths that used the traditional textile, making it into a more masculine, street cultural dress . This is to also to teaches what it mean to be a woman in a male dominated society. 

Besides that, she had also turning the radical (things that is unfinished or asymmetry), this has appear during spring 2004, she did a  voluminous cut from the traditional fabrics, while itstead of wearing like a blouse, it wear up over the bare breast. Despite that, her influences to people are fueled by her consistence of provocation.She challenged the concept of  that fashion is meant to be beautiful or to be beautiful.

Referencing:

TIME.com. 2013. Women in Fashion - TIME. [online] Available at: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2015519_2015392_2015457,00.html [Accessed: 6 Aug 2013].

Marra-Alvarez, M. n.d.. When the West Wore East: Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto and The Rise of the Japanese Avant-Garde in Fashion.

Entry 05 - how celebrities in China affects the consumer market

How celebrities in China affect the consumer market

In this 21st century, fashion based media is become a up-rise in the whole world; including the south east Asia .  While women are the leading role in this industry, i would like to introduce the woman that i personally thinks that she rocks the industry.

 Fan bing bing 范冰冰

She was indeed one of the favorites woman idol of all time.
Her role in the industry were she was the number one on "50 most beautiful people in China". While with her amazing look and wide variety of style, she afford that title.

Brian Buchwald, CEO of Bomoda, a website providing information for Chinese luxury goods consumers, said
"She is a risk taker, she breaks the mold  She makes her own fashion choices and while many Chinese women may not be comfortable enough to wear what Fan Bing bing may wear, just the fact that she's out there making certain choices becomes very inspirational for them,"  

he added "So if Fan Bingbing is a fashion icon in China, then Chinese women will buy what Fan Bingbing wears in a way that is much more qualitative than we see with western celebrities and western luxury consumers,"

He mention that the Chinese consumer is relatively new to the luxury market, while they are heavily influences by celebrities. While this has make a assumption, if Fan bing bing were the fashion icon in China, this will actually influences the women in China, their daily ideas of how they wear and the attitudes of becoming luxuries. 


Annotations.

I could say that, women's are the primary consumer in the fashion industry, while someone who have great fame and wearing beautiful brands it actually inspired someone to become like that. As from what i mention that China consumer are relatively new to the luxury market, while to get this started they need a significant icon of luxury and fashion in order to suits the brand. While this had also portray how big is the influences that a Artist can actually move a person by getting them inspiring their daily wear and attitude lifestyles.

Hence this was a interesting facts that how actually people are trying inspired by someone big and it actually change their life systematically.

Referencing:
stylishthough. 2012. Style Icon: Fan Bingbing. [online] Available at: http://stylishthought.com/fashion/style-icon-fan-bingbing/ [Accessed: 4 Aug 2013].

Post, T. 2013. PHOTOS: Check Out These Eight Fashionable Asian Style Icons. [online] Available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/asian-style-icons-photos_n_3619283.html [Accessed: 4 Aug 2013].

 Sun, R. 2013. Fan Bingbing: The Chic Life of a Cannes 'It' Girl. [online] Available at: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-girl-fan-bingbing-inside-505668 [Accessed: 4 Aug 2013].

Entry - 04 Women roles in Southeast Asia

Women in Modernism southeast asia during the 19th century

During the 19th century , some woman are been sold for cheap labor on plantations and in processing factories. Hence in the village, men are commonly to be position as the head of the house, while woman are appointed as the "secretary" of head. These custom trends are still found in siam, the only non colonize country. However women were still influential in the society while increasing their literacy and education, encouraging elite woman to fight for feminism and gender inequality in the western. 

While during the late 19th, Male leaders focused on political independence, but educated woman were now equally with different aspect such as divorce domestic abuse, financial responsibilities of a father even in politics. However, they is an argument with the male that attention to concerned female should be delayed until independence was attained. Yet, women been viewed as auxiliaries rather than partners. Such problem were still happen after independence movement after the surrender of the Japanese who occupied most of southeast Asia between 1942 and 1945.

Despite after the end of world war II, the independent states that emerged over the next 15 years were committed to gender equality, while this has become a treat towards the society. In recent years, number of women hold the public office has dramatically increased, especially in local government, this had encourage woman that to find themselves marginalized in a male dominated culture, while the authority is still belong to the men.  However, the more female involvement in politics, candidate are recruited as well to defense that how they see women's primary role as wife and mother. While, very country has the gender stereotypes that favor males dominant over women are often reinforced in school textbook and sometimes in religious. However, based on the region economic, political and cultural diversity, southeast Asian countries have well and fair of human development.


Referencing
Asia Society. 2012. Women in Southeast Asia. [online] Available at: http://asiasociety.org/countries/traditions/women-southeast-asia?page=0,0 [Accessed: 2 Aug 2013].

Entry - 03 How media portray woman.

The modern days, the role of woman are not like the old days anymore, now they have more major societal effects, including gender inequity. But somehow, many of the industry are still showing that gender imbalance between man and woman.

In news and entertainment media, women have frequently been underrepresented with minor changes in proportions over the past decade. The female characters often depicted in film and television cast gender stereotypes and the likelihood of women, specifically young women, to be hypersexualized in film is far more expected than men. 

Not just younger woman, even older woman also being portray as sex icon in order to have more discussion on the advertising or brand.

Entry 02 - Women in Politics Margaret Thatcher

Women in Politics
feat Margaret Thatcher 

The presence of women in politics has been a contentious issue throughout history. Women now have the right of voting and also to lead a political party.

Now here featuring Margaret Thatcher (Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher). She was the first female prime minister and also the longest serving prime minister.
She was given the title "The iron lady" as how she was portray to the public.

Margaret Thatcher remains an intensely controversial figure in Britain. Critics claim that her economic policies were divisive socially, that she was harsh or 'uncaring' in her politics, and hostile to the institutions of the British welfare state. Defenders point to a transformation in Britain's economic performance over the course of the Thatcher Governments and those of her successors as Prime Minister. Trade union reforms, privation  deregulation, a strong anti-inflationary stance, and control of tax and spending have created better economic prospects for Britain than seemed possible when she became Prime Minister in 1979.Critics and supporters alike recognise the Thatcher premiership as a period of fundamental importance in British history. Margaret Thatcher accumulated huge prestige over the course of the 1980s and often compelled the respect even of her bitterest critics. Indeed, her effect on the terms of political debate has been profound. Whether they were converted to 'Thatcherism', or merely forced by the electorate to pay it lip service, the Labour Party leadership was transformed by her period of office and the 'New Labour' politics of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown would not have existed without her. Her legacy remains the core of modern British politics: the world economic crisis since 2008 has revived many of the arguments of the 1980s, keeping her name at the centre of political debate in Britain.