Article: GOTHIC & LOLITA BOOK GOES MEDIEVAL.

Byline: Marc Karimzadeh

Japanese teens have a reputation for embracing trends with cult-like fervor. The most recent kid craze of donning Gothic and Lolita garb is now the subject of Phaidon Press' latest style tome, "Gothic & Lolita," which photographically documents this scene of medieval getups in Tokyo and Osaka.

"The idea for 'Gothic & Lolita' came about after many years of visiting Japan and seeing firsthand the incredible energy of street fashion in both Tokyo and Osaka," said Mark Sanders, a consulting editor at Phaidon. "What often seemed on an immediate level 'bizarre' cultural excess has in fact its own internal set of rules and logic."

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