Tokyo men stay one step ahead in style

Besides highly effective marketing, this commodification trend may be a result of younger men in Japan no longer signifying or branding themselves through automobiles.

To further japan's green credentials, I'm delighted to see the chap above is recycling MC Hammer's trousers.

I never understood these fashion shows. All the fashion worn at the show never makes in to the public (thank god for that btw).

The chap in the middle photograph doesn't look particularly Japanese.

Many things bug me about my life in Japan.

But one thing I do love and I know wouldn't be tolerated in my home country is that women, and especially men without being called gay can wear anything they want. Fashion freedom here is something I relish.

Like others have said, I also can't wear any of this, but I like seeing others wear it because it tells me they're not scared of what may happen to them if they do and it adds variety to this very homogeneous society.

Is this another sign of the trend towards herbivorism?

"There’s individuality, they want to be different,” he told AFP. “It’s important for all the fashion world to see what’s happening in Japan.”

Really? I think the writer is getting western culture mixed up with Japanese.

Anyway, although Tokyo, like London or any other major city in the world can be home to trends in fashion, I would hardly say that the average young Japanese male or femaleis a trend setter for the rest of the world.

Unless you think British and American males will start to sport bright orange mullets, girls' earrings, brown flannel tracksuits (with cartoon animals on them) and pink hello kitty sandals, that is.

The amount of effeminate, herbivorous males over here is partly why the birthrate is so low.

@Paul Laimal-Convoy

The amount of effeminate, herbivorous males over here is partly why the birthrate is so low.

This is of serious concern. It's a deep-rooted issue - I mean look at who most average men idolise in the Japanese media...

Those clothes look ridiculous. Of course, a lot of the clothes guys walking around Harajuku wear on the weekends look equally so.