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[ARTICLE]Ayu & Namie: Fashion Threaders In Japan

This article in Singapore is talking about the woman who starts the fashion threads. like ayu and namie in japan. Jolin in Taiwan, Karen Mok in honkong.

My translations:

Starting The Fashion Thread In Asia
Whenever we think about Asia fashion threads, the first one who comes to mind is Ayumi Hamasaki, the queen of sales in japan.

Ayumi Hamasaki(leopard spots and nail ar)t:
Since year 1998, Ayu had been starting unique fashion. In the streets of Tokyo, you can find numerous young girls dressing up like ayu.
In her third album, "Duty', ayu had portrait herself as a wild and sexy leopard girl, which in thus starts the 'leopard spots' thread in japan. Everything that she wore, her nail art, even a simple white tees and a pair of jeans, will start a roaring fashion thread in Japan.

Namie Amuro Brought Out The Hip-Hop Style:
But this few years, Ayu had lots of competitors. The once-very-popular, but was overtake by Ayu when she get married was her rival, Namie Amuro. Recently, Namie start to find her style in hip-hop, this is helping her to win over ayu.
But, at this moment, there are more and more competitors, like Koda Kumi, Mika Nakashima, whom had overtake Namie.
Like Taiwan, Japan had start the model craze, like Se Yuan You Li(i don't know her japanese name, so i type her han yu pin ying of the chinese) who started her career from a model to an actoress. She had already overtaken Ayumi Hamasaki. Being the new fashion threadstarter, she had also starred as the leading actoress in a japan drama with SMAP.

No 1 Beauty In Japan, Se Yuan You Li
recently, Song yuan you Li had been appearing in numerous japan media, is already the No 1 Fashion Queen among Japan highschoolers. In a lot of polls, her votes are far too high from ayumi hamasaki.
Se Yuan You Li, had been crown as the No1 Beauty in japan by the japan media, was a model, every cover she was published, never failed to sell well, breaking a record of 70 millions books. The Japan media had gave her a nickname of "small ebi', this made her the spokesperson of McDonald's Fried Prawn Burger.

Queen Of Taiwan, Jolin Tsai
While in Taiwan, Bestselling Queen, Jolin Tsai has been known as the fashion thread starter in taiwan. Other then producing her album, jolin had a talent of dressing herself up. Although a lot of critics found her style with shadows of Ayu.
But, a lot of cute girls, like Rainie Yang and Cyndi Wang had been accused of copying the threadstarters of Japan.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5...s001wz2.th.jpg

Thanks for the article!

Se Yuan You Li must be Yuri Ebihara.

Cool. Thankies for sharing.

thx for the article...

Why did they had to say that Ayu and Namie are rivals?

Karen Mok? o____O I don't like her style. lol.

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Originally Posted by asongforXX (Post 911401)

Why did they had to say that Ayu and Namie are rivals?

Makes it sell better.

But Namie is so much different than Ayu's stile. She is like... R&B queen, instead of Jpop queen (that's Ayu's title!! ^^U)

you know the funny thing is the picture is not even Namie it's Sarah Jessica Parker (it's the photo of her GAP commerical) http://www.blitzgal.com/scans/Blitz6...sicaParker.jpg
!! But thanks for the article!!

Thank you for sharing the article with us! :)

it's always the leopard spots... hehehe. thanks!

I must agree with the 'a lot of critics found her (Jolin) style with shadows of Ayu.' and the part about cute girls; 'a lot of cute girls, like Rainie Yang and Cyndi Wang had been accused of copying the threadstarters of Japan'. *cough*Otsuka Ai*cough*

Thanks for the article.

It would seem that the Taiwanese <3 Japan like no other asian... people.. :D

I think this article is a bit outdated. When my friend went to Japan just two weeks ago, she said there were Koda Kumi look-alikes EVERYWHERE on the street, consisting mostly of teenage girls. Other than that it was the Jamaican style. That Ebihara girl was also everywhere, in the form of ads and posters. No one follows Ayu anymore.

^ What's to copy? I don't think she really dresses like a young teenager anymore anyway :( My mum wears more stylish clothes than Ayu and she's 47.

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Originally Posted by gakkun (Post 911823)

Are you sure? I think people mix artists' styles, rather than dressing like just one..

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Originally Posted by gakkun (Post 911823)

well, this article did state that Ayu's had been overtaken by Kuu and Yuri Ebihara. by the way, this is in yesterday chinese paper.
and honestly speaking, those japan fashion magazines that i bought(i'm a Popteen & Cawaii reader), kuu's and Ebihara's style is everywhere. :love

Yuri Ebihara is scary. LOL She reminds me of Ami Suzuki. Not sure what about her though.. Smile maybe.

This photo is like, so photoshopped o___o
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5...ayuri01wv0.jpg
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/5518/bgprozd3.jpg

It's like the next Yukie Nakama, but doesn't act :|

but she dress so well! you can't help trying to learn from her!

I wonder if she dresses herself.. :o
Or maybe she has a genius stylist helping her choose her styles?

^she must dress herself too. i remember reading in mags that girls like what she's wearing when they saw her shopping on streets.

For Taiwan, I'd expect more girls to try and copy Rainie's style rather than Jolin's, which is more mature and may be harder to pull off for young girls. Afterall, the "cute" trend is more prevalent than the sexy image there.

Taiwanese girls imo dress kinda like Ai Otsuka does now :|

^well in singapore, it's kuu and Jolin style....

But what does that mean? Just fashionable tops or something with jeans and low cut pants?

I think that fashion is generally nowadays not dictated by a celebrity.

hmmm...how should i put this. take jolin for example, when she wears something to go on tv, say a cute skirt & tops. There will be people who try to copy that style.

But wouldn't there be people wearing stuff like that already..?

Fashion trends are so complicated :<

^that's why....i find it hard to explain....

but most of the time, whenever some artist wore a style that looks good, you can expect carboncopies walking down the street in the future

IMO, I think Ayu's style is too hard to copy since a lot of what she wears costs a LOT.

So people are 'copying' the people who wear things similar to items in cheaper boutiques :D

Not too hard to copy, just walk down takeshita dori in Harajuku and pick up a full set of clothes for 20 bucks.

Well... that was probably possible around 2001 or something, but nowdays Ayu isn't as popular on that front anymore. Back then she was like the only one.

I think they all equally share the fashion world.. I mean.. come on :p
Fashion is what Ayu lives for! <3 She shopped crazily back when she was a teen.. and she does now! :D

As if you could ever be disappointed or even the least put off by anything she ever did.

You sure are impressive :D.

I was kinda put off by her purple SCAWAII shoot of ugliness.

With the boot.. and the.. ew..

Thanks for the article.

JOLIN?! XD Kill me...

Jolin is indeed.. yeah. LOL

^but there's the fact that a lot of people in taiwan and singapore are following her style...

that's a positive article. thanks!