Im was just listening to the Caramellen Dancen in the lunch room of a skii resort in Nagano prefecture.と(≧∇≦)つ I also came back from asnowboarding leason on how to stop、 after hitting about 10 people on my way down a mega slope.(-_-;)

Only in Japan、 can find 21 manga books for the equivalent of $30 AUS. Life's good＼(^o^)／

I just came back from the Algonquins fashion show & the Disacode live concert. It was awesome (☆。☆)

h.Naoto's Christmas Party from last Saturday

After going to h.Naoto’s fashion show last month, he then invited us (everyone at the show) to come to his Christmas party on the 10 of December.  At first Tatiana and I decided that we wouldn’t go since we didn’t have any girly, Lolita clothes to wear.  However I changed my mind at the last minute, because I really wanted to go and I didn’t care if we were dressed differently.  It was a good thing that we did because we ended up having an awesome time.

So last Saturday Tatiana and I went to h.Naoto’s Christmas party!  We have decided to name ourselves the “Psychedelic Dream Team” because so far we’ve managed to make our dreams come true 3 times already, which was meeting our favourite designer.  (We chose the ‘psychedelic’ part from our favourite Japanese band, X Japan’s slogan “Psychedelic violence, crime of visual shock.” -->)

shop on the left

Inside picture from google

When we went in the shop, all the main shop keepers from the other h.Naoto branches came to the party as well, most of whom we recognised since we always visit the different shops around the city.  They were all dressed in Santa outfits and they checked our tickets and wrote our names down, which made us fell like VIPs.  The people that showed up were customers and fans of h.Naoto. We were lucky because the people there were dressed in both Lolita and visual kei clothes, since h.Naoto designs different styles of cloths.  Meaning that we fitted in this time!

Misako

Midori

At the party we saw two fashion models, Misako and Midori from the Japanese magazine, KERA.  We saw Midori in real life for the first time that day, but it was the second time that we saw Misako because she was one of the runway models at the fashion show.

In order:  Mint, Ibi and Nari

We also saw the members from Sixh.  Sixh is a band that collaborated with h.Naoto to create their own fashion line, which is a mix between goth and visual kei = Ghost Kei. Ibi and Nari were there selling their new clothes and special life sized pillows of themselves called a ‘dakimakura.’  They were going to play a live show at the end but Mint only showed up for a few minutes and had to leave, so we couldn’t hear them play.

(a different) dakimakura

far left

We also saw Jun Utahiroba from the popular group called Golden Bomber, who showed up for a little while as well.

When we asked h.Naoto for a picture he said that we couldn't take pictures since it was a special event.  However, he then said that it would be ok if we took the picture on his camera, which would then make it 'Offical'.  Yay!!!!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=283303938387520&set=a.273929919324922.87339.100001237492070&type=3&theater

 I also recorded a crazy video after the party, when both of us were tired but I haven't finished editing it so i'll up load it later.





h.Naoto's blog - http://ameblo.jp/kyounohnaoto/page-2.html#main

I found a Santa bread yesterday〓

My original T-Shirt

☆ YOU COULD BE THE OWNER OF MY NEW 'ROCK 'N ROLL' T-SHIRT ☆

The 'Rock 'n Roll' t-shirt design

A few weeks ago I designed an image for a T-shirt and then found a place that would print them, then my Japanese teacher helped me to more information by calling up the company to ask questions about the price etc...

So far 1 T-shirts costs a bit more than $20 AUD, however I'm not exactly sure since the price varies depending on how many I order.  Therefore I want to know if anyone is interested in buying one of my t-shirts so that I can figure out how many to order.

 You can chose from M size and L size.  I didn't bother with the S size, since the Japanese sizes are really, really small.

The design features my original character 'Yuu-kun' [勇くん], a punked out lion, who plays the guitar.  To give you an idea what it looks like, I've photoshopped an image of what I think the t-shirt would look like (image above).

If you are interested in buying one, please leave a comment, thanks!

Im currently at the 60th floor of Sunshine building with Tatiana & Nicolas.