Lan-Tien Sophia Guo
About
Graduating from the University of Bristol with a BA in Liberal Arts, my thinking and writing were moulded in a very interdisciplinary manner. I am centrally interested in fashion cultures but find myself constantly searching for linking threads with other subjects and art-forms, including architecture, photography, and film. My dissertation looks at FRUiTS magazine, created by photographer Shoichi Aoki in 1997, seeing it as witness to what I term a ‘quiet rebellion’ within Harajuku, Tokyo, from the late 1990s through to the early 2000s, and by doing so, aims to re-think the legacy of Harajuku fashion and the magazine itself. By drawing on prominent contemporary notions of the power and politics imbued within textiles, I theorise the photographed participants’ approaches to styling themselves as a form of handcrafted assemblage, playfully subversive through a self-determined creative freedom, destruction of genres, and experimentation in transcultural fashion influences, as well as a negotiation of urban, public space.
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