some of the different responses to the Harajuka girls are that some people disagree with what she is doing and think that she is stereotyping the japanese culture because over their in the harajuka district of Japan. Thats how they dress because their culture in their neighbourhoods thats how they were brought up with the culture of that design of fashion. Alot fo people think that because of the Harajuka girls being japanese that Gwen stefani is automatically being raciest agianst their culture and taking what is theirs and turning it into something completly different. Yet also doing it racially and making it look like asian culture and the Harajuka girls are slaves of Gwen stefani and of north american culture. But if that is true then why does Gwen stefani say she loves the Harajuka girls and she always brings them around wherever she goes and uses their sayings and she even has her own song that says how much she appreciates them and she even had a tour called the i love the Harajuka girls in 2005 so this is a very good debat weather she is just using them or if she actaully wants them.
I dont think the Harajuka culture is being represented the wrong way because she is just trying to make her fashion clothin line like the Harajuka cloths she got the idea from the Harajuka
district and how people dress their she probly thought it would be a cool idea to have designer cloths like that and she probly thought that if u sold alot of her clothin designer. Cloths here in north america that she would odviusly sell them over in japan in the Harajuka district because that style of fashion is really really big in Harajuka its their trpe of dressing style. The name of her product will odviusly attract attention becuase alot of people know and like Gwen stefani plus the name of her clothin line everyone will know cause she'll advertise it and people will want it cause its Gwen stefani's and people wana be like celebraties so it will attract attention.
She recruited the Harajuka girls because she needed backup singers plus asian girls because that would probly help her sell her clothing line and get her ideas from asian culture plus people who have experianced asian culture their hole life so she needed to learn it somehow if she wanted to use the asian culture to her advantage and gettin the Harajuka style of dressing for her own. Plus she needed help with her record sales and her goin out and gettin 4 different girls from the same culture of asian background would help her out because if in japan people seen their own people being celebrities in america it will get them to be fans of them. And Gwen stefani plus it would help her with record sales because people from their would want to listen to her music and buy her albums because of the Harajuka girls. I think that if Gwen stefani dident have the Harajuka girls she wouldent survive byherself because she would have no fan base plus she is a single singer and she also just broke up with her old band no doubt so its hard for a single singer to survive from coming from a band. Only herself and Justin Timberlake are the only 2 big people who survived from being a band and goin to a single singer and making a name for themselfs that i can think of.
where i got my pictures from:www.nitrolicious.com/.../gwen_stefani_002.jpg &
www.hypenmagazine.com/blog /archives/gwen.JPg
