To put it bluntly, Lolita is a girl with a lot of personality, and she can be an inspiration for clothing. Clothes that are very similar to Lolita style are called "Lolita style". , what is the "post-Lolita era"...
First there is Lolita, and then what clothes.
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4. Fashion
Lolita is the Chinese transliteration of Lolita. Under the leadership of Anna Sui and Christian Lacroix, "Lolita" style has become a popular theme in spring and summer 2007 fashion. A 13-year-old girl and an unethical love led to "Lolita" being included in the dictionary as a word, specifically used to describe a seductive, precocious girl. Lolita actually represents a kind of delicate, bright and ambitious youth.
Classic elements
[Edit this paragraph] Clothing style Lolita
The first Lolita we heard was the name of a novel and a novel The name of a 12-year-old girl. If you only understand the novel, you can simply understand it as a precocious sexy girl and her connection with pedophilia, and those who are exposed to Western culture will find that the "Lolita" girls that Westerners call are those Girls wearing miniskirts and mature makeup but with girly bangs are simply a case of "girls wearing girly clothes". But when "Lolita" spread to Japan, the Japanese regarded it as a synonym for innocent and cute girls, uniformly calling girls under 14 years old "Lolita generation", and their attitude became "girls forcefully wear girly clothes" , that is, the yearning of mature women for young girls. And almost all Oriental "Lolita" dress themselves according to the palace doll fashion in the movie "The Story of the Lower Wife" as a standard. The Hong Kong version of "Lolita" comes from this, and the same goes for the Cantonese version of Lolita, which is accustomed to learning from Hong Kong. But the difference is that the age of players of the Cantonese version of Lolita is concentrated between 13 and 25 years old, and most of them are no more than 20 years old. Players who are 17 or 18 years old do not have the need to pretend to be young. More Sometimes they are pursuing a new attitude towards clothing and a different lifestyle.
[Edit this paragraph] Three mainstream styles of "lolita" style
1. Sweet Lolita - mainly pink, pink blue, white and other pink series, with a large number of lace materials used , aiming to create a doll-like cuteness and romance. It is the most popular style in Guangzhou, and it is not too ostentatious when walking on the street.
Sweet Lolita
Today’s status in the Lolita world: mainstream
Sweet Lolita, as its name suggests, belongs to the sweetest style of clothing design among all Lolita categories. The fabrics of sweet dresses are mostly in cute and pink solid colors such as pink, pink blue or white. In addition, in order to create a cute, sweet, innocent and innocent atmosphere like a doll, Sweet style dresses usually use more lace and fabric pleats on the clothing than other styles.
In recent years, probably because the styles and designs are often copied, various sweet dress brands have abandoned single-color fabrics and instead used various kinds of fabrics printed with candies, cakes, and small animals. Or a printed fabric that depicts a certain fairy tale scene (because the pattern is special and difficult to copy, this kind of fabric is often not available in a single store, so it is quite good at preventing D-versions from happening).
Generally speaking, Sweet Lolita dresses are often more favored by girls who enter the Lolita world for the first time than other dresses.
Representative brands of Sweet Lolita dresses: BABY, THE STARS SHINE BRIGH, Angelic Pretty, METAMORPHOSE
2. ClassicLolita——mainly simple tones, focusing on tailoring to express elegance Thoughts, the colors are not outstanding, such as brown and white. The lace will be reduced accordingly, and the ruffle pleats are the biggest feature. The overall style is relatively plain and suitable for beginners.
☆Classical Lolita☆
Today’s status in the Lolita world: mainstream
As the name suggests, Classical Lolita dresses are among all other Lolita dresses. The most elegant style of clothing. The dress design is like that of an aristocratic girl in England in the 19th century, which is both classical and elegant, yet innocent and lovely.
Although the fabrics used in Classical Lolita dresses also tend to be mainly solid colors, the solid color materials used must have tones that are elegant, decent and not dazzling. In addition to the four basic colors of white, black, pink and blue, a variety of beautiful floral fabrics are also a popular choice for Classic dress fabrics.
Unlike Sweet Lolita dresses, apart from classical lace, Classical Lolita dresses rarely use a large amount of lace with plain shapes and average texture on clothing. In every place where lace is needed on the clothes, Classical Lolita dresses will basically use original fabric pleats of the same texture as the clothes instead of lace. The fabric colors used in Classical dresses are also very elegant. In addition to the four basic colors of white, black, pink and blue, a variety of beautiful floral fabrics are also commonly used in Classical dresses.
All in all, the characteristic of Classical Lolita dresses is "simple but not simple". Due to its simple and elegant style, Classical Lolita dresses are more suitable for daily wear than other Lolita dresses and are more easily accepted by parents and the public. When girls are tired of the overly exaggerated Sweet style Lolita dresses and the very unusual Gothic style Lolita dresses, Classical style Lolita dresses naturally become their inevitable and final choice.
What’s interesting is that the people who can best wear Classical Lolita dresses are not the young and lively high school and junior high school girls, but those over 20 years old who own it because of their work and experience. A young woman with a calm temperament. It seems that in reality, there are only a handful of examples where "temperament" and "youth" can perfectly coexist.
Representative brands: Mary Magdalene, Victorian maiden, JULIETTE & JUSTINE
Lolita is not Cosplay: the former represents attitude towards life, while the latter emphasizes role imitation
gothicolita 3. GothicLolita——The main colors are black and white, and its characteristics are to express the feeling of mystery, terror and death. It is usually decorated with crosses, silverware and other decorations, as well as more intense dark makeup, such as black nails, eye shadow, and lip color, emphasizing the mysterious color.
☆Gothic Lolita☆
Current status in the Lolita world: mainstream
The first thing to note is that Gothic Lolita is completely different from pure Gothic. Don’t confuse them—because from a normal perspective, pure Gothic is simply a “monster-like character.”
Although Gothic Lolita also has a strong Gothic flavor in its clothing design, it can at least give people an alternative cute and innocent feeling like a little devil.
Secondly, those who think that all Lolita dresses made of black and white fabrics must be Gothic Lolita dresses are also wrong. In fact, even if the exact same fabrics are used to make the clothes, Lolita dresses made by different factions will still have obvious differences in look and feel that are easy to distinguish——
For example, the two photos above picture. Even though the models in the picture are all wearing black dresses, people can still easily identify from the style and shape who is wearing the sweet and cute Sweet Lolita dress, and who is wearing the Gothic Lolita dress that is cold and aloof like the god of death.
Almost 97% of Gothic Lolita dresses only use black and white single-color fabrics. Cute colors such as pink and bright yellow are completely insulated from this category. In addition, Gothic Lolita dresses are also the genre that most commonly uses leather materials among all types of Lolita dresses. No wonder that in some parts of the country, wearing a corset made of fine lambskin has become the only criterion for laymen to judge whether a person is a Gothic Lolita girl.
In addition to the monotonous fabric colors, Gothic Lolita girls’ favorite accessories also best express Gothic’s mixture of “horror”, “innocence”, “mystery” and “ Various small objects (such as black nail polish, silver crosses and skulls, etc.) with a unique flavor based on the seven themes of "Despair", "Melancholy", "Death" and "Taboo".
Elegant Gothic Lolita In addition, there are two special branches of Gothic Lolita dresses - EGL Lolita and EGA Lolita. The full name of EGL Lolita is "Elegant Gothic Lolita". Its style design generally tends to be traditional and classical. Although it is very close to Gothic Lolita, it has a bit more of a vampire feel. The full name of EGA Lolita is "Elegant Gothic Aristocrat" (ie "Elegant Gothic Aristocrat"). Its clothing styles are generally men's clothing, long skirts, trousers and shirts and jackets with buttons at the collar.
Compared with other types of Lolita dresses, Gothic Lolita, which combines elegance, gorgeousness and darkness, can be said to be the Lolita style that is most loved and fascinated by Europeans and Americans. Perhaps this is because the design of the Gothic Lolita dress is full of mysterious and seductive ascetic colors, so it can arouse the screams of people who are deeply influenced by Christianity.
Representative brands: Moi-meme-Moitie, Mille Fleur
[Edit this paragraph] Lolita style
In Old school punk, Hipamp; Hop, After a wave of clothing styles such as Guru have taken turns to dominate street style from Tokyo to New York in the past decade, another style has nothing to do with "modern fashion elements" such as baseball, skateboarding, sailor suits, denim, miniskirts, etc. Costume style emerged, turning the streets from Harajuku to the Bronx into a never-ending Halloween carnival: College girls aged 14 to 18 wore gorgeous velvet dresses or pleated skirts covered with lace Lace bodices bloomed from their balloon-sleeved tops, which were tied with ribbons and buttons, and were draped over wide cloaks and tall boots. Pairing these Grimm-esque looks were heavy teardrop black eyeshadow and pale cabaret-esque foundation.
A woman without Lolita complex is like an overly ripe fruit, losing the aftertaste of youthfulness.
Realistic and safe, but who cares about these? Therefore, those black lace skirts decorated with white and the straps on the chest bring us back to the ignorant years of the past. They are not just pretending to be young in a simple sense, but the best reward for oneself, allowing oneself to live In the unreal world, encourage yourself to make those small mistakes, even a little cruel and evil.
The fashion industry will naturally not miss any opportunity to make a big fuss. What women want is nothing more than vanity, beauty, and youth. Now they also add unbridled gorgeousness. In this era where Lolita-like "goblins" are rampant, John Galliano abandoned the ever-changing and dizzying style at the Dior05 autumn and winter show, using gorgeous and mix-matching of different seasonal clothes to create a precocious modern little girl style, huge Sunglasses, feminine fur paired with a mustard yellow pleated skirt and suspender top, sexy and pure are all indispensable. Fashion elites pay tribute to ignorance and rebellion. Together with the general public, they enter a game of refusing to grow up. It is not difficult to look young and sexy, so in recent years, lace and bows have been all the rage and continue to be popular. French designers Josiane Pividal and Joseph even named their clothing brands Lolita Lempicka (a combination of the movie "Lolita" adapted from the famous novel by American novelist Nabokov and the surname of painter Tamara de Lempicka). Most of their inspiration came from the 1940s. The clothing style balances modern and classic feelings with a slightly playful attitude in a clever overall style. Full of feminine tones, romantic and unique. In this spring and summer, they use bright yellow or blue tones with soft and light fabrics, full of youthfulness.
Even Chanel, who has always been mature and elegant, also included many cute and delicate details in the Haute Couture (high-end ready-to-wear) for spring and summer 2005, such as tutu skirts, straw hats and huge bows. Jean paul Gaultier brought street Lolita style into his show, with a printed dress paired with a lace parasol. The same design can also be found on the white dress designed by John Galliano for Dior. After many changes, the Japanese designer brand KENZO has also performed well by interpreting girlish style with a strong sense of nostalgia. It has a floral skirt with a mainly pink tone, paired with a wide-brimmed hat and a ruffled skirt. Swaying.
In this world where good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere. How many people are willing to be a well-behaved lady? Rebellion is no longer just for young girls, using charming high heels, lace dresses, scarlet lipstick and Winnie the Pooh as weapons. If you can live a colorful life, there's no harm in being a charming little vixen.