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Street Fashion from Finland (part 1)
Street Fashion, Finland girl, Helsinki Finland
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Postapocalyptic Models. British designer John Galliano. Paris
Postapocalyptic Models. Gnaw Their Own Legs Off. Paris
A model presents a creation by British designer John Galliano as part of the presention of Men’s Autumn-Winter 2008-2009 Ready-to-Wear (French PAP) collection, 18 January 2008 in Paris.
Fashion designer John Galliano brought another batch of his Mad Max-inspired fashion to the Ready-To-Wear show in Paris today. You have the bloody chiseled bodies, the bizarre headgear and the decorative nooses. Maybe fetishizing the collapse of civilization is one step towards making peace with it? Or maybe it’s just a weird run-off from our current end-of-days obsession. Either way, enjoy our gallery of buff men in survivalist rags.
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Cosplay, Taipei Taiwan (part 3)
A big Cosplay event at the National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan
There was a big cosplay event at the National Taiwan University.
October 20-21, 2007, in Taipei, Taiwan
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Cosplay, Taipei Taiwan (part 2)
A big Cosplay event at the National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan
There was a big cosplay event at the National Taiwan University.
October 20-21, 2007, in Taipei, Taiwan
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Cosplay, Taipei Taiwan (part 1)
A big Cosplay event at the National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan
There was a big cosplay event at the National Taiwan University.
October 20-21, 2007, in Taipei, Taiwan
Cosplay, short for “costume play”, is a Japanese subculture centered on dressing as characters from manga, anime, tokusatsu, and video games, and, less commonly, Japanese live action television shows, fantasy movies, Japanese pop music bands, Visual Kei, fantasy music stories (such as stories by the band Sound Horizon), and novels. However, in some circles, “cosplay” has been expanded to mean simply wearing a costume.
In Japan, “cosplay” as a hobby is usually an end unto itself. Like – minded people gather to see others’ costumes, show off their own elaborate handmade creations, take lots of pictures, and possibly participate in best costume contests.
The most specific anecdote about the origin of the word “cosplay” was that Nov Takahashi (from a Japanese studio called Studio Hard) coined the term “cosplay” as a contraction of the English-language words “costume play” while she was attending the 1984 Los Angeles Science Fiction Worldcon. He was so impressed by the hall and masquerade costuming there that he reported about it frequently in Japanese science fiction magazines. This point is debatable, however, as the word fits in with a common Japanese method of abbreviation: combining the first two syllables of one word with the first two syllables of a second word (or, more precisely, the first two moras of each). Other examples of this include Pokémon and puroresu.
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