What Every Fashion Student Will Have on Their Coffee Table

Edited by Princess Glover

I am, and always have been thoroughly convinced that the Japanese have us beat when it comes to unabashed expressions of pure, individualistic style. And anyone who’s ever looked through an issue of ViVi would know that. The fashion scene in the Harajuku district of Tokyo is widely known as the burgeoning epicenter of the eccentric, the bizarre and the bold, and in the process has become somewhat of a fashion icon.

In Tiffany Godoy’s new book Style Deficit Disorder-Harajuku Street Fashion, the author relates the atmosphere surrounding the scene to ADD, which is frankly quite accurate. “In the scene’s frenetic jump from style to style there is a consistent lack of complacence-a style deficit disorder.” The book is also a history lesson on the history and evolution of Harajuku, profiling its most daring and influential designers, labels, stylists, and shops including Comme des Garcons, Hysteric Glamour, Super Lovers, A Bathing Ape, and Laforet, and explodes with a bevy of colorful and inspiring images.