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Kawaii style dominated Japanese popular culture in the 1980's. Kawaii meaning 'cute' in English essentially means childlike, and by association: adorable, innocent, simple, gentle, and vulnerable. Cute style saturated design and the mass media whilst they were expanding rapidly in Japan between the mid seventies and the mid eighties. Cute style reached its height of saccharine intensity in the early 1980s. Cute fashion gradually evolved from a pretty serious, pink, romanticism of the early 1980s, to a more humorous, kitsch, and androgynous style which began to fade in the early 1990s - before making a return in the mid-nineties as Japan celebrated its own version of the seventies-retro. In the mid- nineties Japanese cute returned as the more kitsch and knowing 'super- cute' (chou-kawaii).

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Harajuku street style had roots way back in the 50's through the introduction of American cultural influences which moulded the origin of a fashionable rebellious youth trend setters called 'the Harajuku tribe'.

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