this book came out a few years ago – a more sanitized cosplay idol type take on bandage fetishism – caused a few ripples around netland at the time – hipster bloggers, who have of course never actually seen a copy, ignorantly/ridiculously proclaiming that this was some new weirdo jap fashion craze (hello boing boing)
old news, sorry, but at least baby art gives you exclusive scans – to be appropriated by tumblr users no doubt (a site i’ve been banned from, needless t’say)
related posts:
mummy fetish news
paranoia (trauma)
tristes vacances
and re broken doll fashion fallacies (and while i’m being snarky) – the “guro lolita” thing is very much a western invention (by japanophiles) – such a phenomenon barely exists in japan! (i’d be happy to be proved wrong!)
The guro lolita, bottom left I have spoken to her and my friend knows her funny.
Small world
Also the class enjoyed a presentation I had about your art, the favorite was the saint sebastianna I belive it is called…
http://gl2.tumblr.com/
The book on top, do you know where I can order it? Is Kegadoru the actual title? I’ve never heard of guro lolita? Reminds me of zombie lolitas. I like it!
Thanks again TB!
I found it. yesasia.com sells it and Kegadoru is the title.
it’s on ebay too
my name used as a keyword :-/
Does this sort of sport ever get ‘reverse engineered’? I mean, do Japanese kids ever take up the myths and run with them?