The Japanese Street Fashion phenomenon is still going strong. In her addictive mtokyoblog, Maryanne chronicles her family’s move from Brooklyn to Tokyo. She recently caught this Lolita-fashioned girl walking away from the camera in Shibuya.

Japanese Street Fashion photographer Shoichi Aoki writes in the forward of Fresh Fruits -

Every Sunday until 1998, Omone-sando, the main street in the Harajuku area of Tokyo, was declared a pedestrian heaven or Hoko-ten, and all traffic was banned for the entire day. One one particular Sunday in March 1997, I was standing on a street corner outside my new office surveying my surroundings when two girls wearing tartan duffle coats caught my attention. They weren’t doing anything in partuicular, just hanging out while a few foreign tourists took their picture, but they exuded an attitude and degree of presence that was hard to ignore…..Here, for the first time in Japan and on my very doorstep was an example of fashion trends being initiated by the wearer (by far the most important element in fashion as far as I am concerned). Indeed it was the wearer who superceded the designer to create a new fashion sensibility that was as daring as it was transformative.

Today Japanese youth are still pushing the boundaries with Lolita, Goth and Punk fashion. Lucky for us, much of it is available online.

My search for the perfect double-breasted trench led me to this belted black coat. Love the extra long sleeves, the dropped waist, the zippers and the detachable satin collar. And I’m loving Maruione.jp.

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