In a previous post I said that Vivi was the best magazine ever. I lied. It’s Fruits. Pictures courtesy of Fruits magazine, Wang Dawei (who just got into Georgetown, Smarty McScholarpants!), and creative-ass Japanese people everywhere. Click for full size images.

I think of late the Japanese are into something I will call Lumberjack Fashion. This includes trapper hats, plaid dresses and moccasins. I was scoffed at by a Korean friend at the Wudaokou Fuzhuang Shichang in Beijing (more on that later: You will thank me when I tell you) when I attempted to buy a plaid dress. She laughed, “That was a trend in NINETIES Korea, ha ha ha.” Whatever, Minji. It was cool then, and it is cool now.

If I could fit in Asian clothing I would have bought that dress, paired it with my black moccasins, and laughed all the way back home on the plane. Picture below courtesy of Stylehive.com.

I’m on the borderline with this Japanese trend. Would these sexy overalls with skinny jean legs be flattering on any but the very petite?

So moccasins are all the rage in Japan right now, and I am jumping on the bandwagon–the Japanese are on to something. MOCCASINS ARE THE SHIT!!!

During my visit to Hawaii I saw two Japanese girls wearing Minnetonka moccasin boots and it forced me to spaz out and buy a pair even though that means I won’t have enough money to eat next month. My new shoes:

I don’t care and now I want to buy these ankle boot moccasins:

…Because moccasins are too rad for words. Thank you, Vivi magazine, Cawaii magazine and Japan, for bringing this to my attention.

I love this model. Fujii Lena is one of the half-something/half-something models for Japan’s Vivi magazine–the greatest fashion magazine on the planet. Here is Lena in a “music video” of her wearing clothes, changing clothes, making smoochy faces at the camera, and posing in her underwear. I think guys will like it. Here she is talking about fashion–I think– with a cartoon wolf. Unfortunately because I only speak Mandarin, my Japanese is limited to reading kanji so I don’t know what the heck they are saying except for fa-sheen check-o.

Admittedly, Vivi is probably geared towards 14-year-old Japanese girls, but I am 23 and love it, so there. Vivi champions the mixed aesthetic. They use mostly half-Asian, half-white models to show the gorgeousness of diversity, not to mention the awesomeness of candy-colored clothes and moccasin boots (more on those later). My other personal faves are Marie and Jun, pictured below.

Marie, on the left. I hear she is half French-Canadian, and 100% gorgeous. Yay for big noses!

Gotta love Vivi’s selection of models.