Maybe you've already read Phaidon's super-popular Japanese street fashion books (Fruits, Fresh Fruits, Gothic & Lolita), and so on. Maybe you simply flip through the glossy photo-candy pages for fun or maybe you're looking for inspiration for your own style. Want more? Inside scene information, interviews with Lolita-fashion-inspired artists and musicians, instructions for making your own clothing? Look no further than The Gothic & Lolita Bible Vol. 1, a full-color glossy photo-filled magazine-book. Yes, a magazine-book, otherwise known as a mook (I'm not making this up. See the Letter from the editor when you check this book out).
Inside you will find: interviews with the artists of Vampire Kisses, Gothic Sports and The Dreaming, a Gothic and Lolita manga reading list, an interview with singer Nana Kitade, a full coverage report from a Baby, the Stars Shine Bright event, sewing patterns and tons and tons of photos of clothes. Take a quiz to figure out your Loli style and learn what, according to ketsu-eki-gata (psychologist Furukawa Takeji's theory of the relationship between blood type and personality), your blood type might say about you.
Fun, pretty, frilly, sweet, doll-like, imaginative, expressive, artistic, fashionable, modest, lovely, decadent, independent, ladylike, unique, nostalgic, unparalleled; though they are two separate styles, any and all of these words may be used to describe Gothic and Lolita. What they have in common is that they can be both a style and a lifestyle and The Gothic & Lolita Bible Vol. 1 is the ultimate guide to both.
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