LAFORET HARAJUKU WORLD TOUR / PARIS 2017

«【Laforet HARAJUKU】a ouvert ses portes en 1978. Leader de la mode à Tokyo, Laforet HARAJUKU propose plus de 140 marques de mode femme, mode homme, accessoires, chaussures, sacs, CDs et même cafés. Vous pouvez y profiter de toutes les nouveautés en matière de mode, de culture et de gastronomie. Laforet fait ainsi le pont entre la mode et la culture et n'a cesse d'attirer tous ceux qui sont sensibles aux dernières tendances. Le centre commercial est à présent un point de repère dans le paysage de Harajuku, ville de la mode. Laforet HARAJUKU fêtera en octobre 2017 ses 39 ans d'ouverture et, à cette occasion, débute le Laforet HARAJUKU World Tour afin de présenter la culture et la mode de Harajuku au monde entier. Deux événements seront tenus à cette occasion : un stand au salon Who's Next/Premiere Class et un pop-up store au magasin L'EXCEPTION. »

«【Laforet HARAJUKU】Opened in 1978. Tokyo's leading dedicated fashion building, with 140 tenants dealing in ladies' and men's wear, accessories, shoes, bags, CDs and cafés. Here you can enjoy the latest fashion, culture and food. It exists as a base communicating information about fashion and culture and consistently attracts those who are sensitive to prevailing trends. It plays a role as a landmark for Harajuku, the fashion city. Laforet HARAJUKU, which will mark the 39th anniversary of its opening in October 2017, has launched the Laforet HARAJUKU World Tour to strengthen its ability to bring Harajuku fashion culture to the world. It is scheduled to run a booth at Who's Next/Premiere Classe, an international fashion trade fair and to open a pop-up shop at a select shop called L'EXCEPTION. »

La rumeur court depuis quelques semaines déjà, mais l'événement a été confirmé ! Laforet HARAJUKU, le célèbre centre commercial, sera présent à Paris pour deux événements uniques : une présentation en salon professionnel et un pop-up store. 

Le select shop L'EXCEPTION proposera du samedi 23 septembre au mardi 3 octobre 2017 une sélection d'articles venant tout droit de Laforet HARAJUKU! Vous pourrez y retrouver de nombreuses marques telles que : Angelic Pretty, Baby the Stars Shine Bright, Alice and the Pirates, Jane Marple, Nile Perch, E Hyphen world gallery bonbon, Ciara et d'autres...

Rumor has it... Laforet HARAJUKU is coming to Paris for two special events! The first one, Who's next/Premier Classe, is a professional only event where Laforet will display several of its brands, and the second one is a pop-up store for the general public.

L'EXCEPTION select shop will hold from Saturday, September 23rd to Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 a pop-up store with popular Laforet HARAJUKU brands : Angelic Pretty Paris, Baby the Star Shine Bright, Alice and the Pirates, Jane Marple, Nile Perch, E Hyphen world gallery bonbon, Ciara and many others...

Cette nouvelle est plus qu'excitante pour tous les fans de la mode lolita et japonaise en Europe - moi y compris - non seulement pour le court mais également sur le long terme. L'arrivée de Laforet HARAJUKU au salon Who's Next/Premiere Classe pourrait permettre à nombreuses des marques représentées par Laforet de trouver de nouveaux acheteurs et revendeur sur le sol européen. Peut-être bientôt du Nile Perch ou du Jane Marple pas loin de chez nous ? Je serai en tout cas à la première heure devant le pop-up shop en espérant trouver quelques merveilles ! En espérant vous y voir également ♡

What an amazing announcement for every lolita and harajuku fashion lover in Europe for both short and long term! Laforet HARAJUKU coming to Who's Next/Premier Classe could help many Japanese brand to find some reseller or stockist all around Europe. Maybe we could soon find some Nile Perch or Jane Marple near to us? But whatever comes out of Who's Next/Premiere Classe, I'll be patiently waiting for the pop-up store to open! I definitely hope to find some good deal! I hope we will meet there ♡

Pop-up store Laforet HARAJUKU

L'EXCEPTION
Forum des Halles,
24 rue Berger, 75001, Paris.

Ouvert du lundi au  samedi de 10h à 20h

et le dimanche de 11h à 19h

Images et source © Laforet HARAJUKU

Dresses and prints I like the most

From left to right : Chess Chocolate, Angelic Pretty
Macaron print, Emily Temple Cute
Melty Chocolate, Angelic Pretty

1. Chocolate and biscuit prints

I think I just can't find words to tell you how much I'm in love with Chocolate and biscuit prints. Chocolate is one of my favourite food and it seems I don't only want it to end up in my stomach but also on my dresses (and accessories). Though it was quite though to find any chocolate/biscuit related dresses before 2009, Melty Chocolate and such started the new trend of Chocolate prints. Angelic Pretty seems now to release at least two or three chocolate/biscuit prints a year, that is not bothering me — at all. The famous (Melty) Royal Chocolate is now released every year, along with amazing prints such as Chess Chocolate, Rosette Chocolate, Musée du Chocolat... 

My personal favourites are really AP's and Emily Temple Cute's dresses. I'm not that interested into BtssB's ones (except some exceptions), maybe it's because I'm not fond of their prints in general anymore ? I love the vivid and clean prints of Angelic Pretty, I feel like Btssb's ones are a bit more messy and "dreamy" like — though it can be a good point, I don't think it's particularly matching a chocolate/biscuit print atmosphere. 

From left to right : La robe vert clair, Btssb
Scarlet Primavera Waltz Dress, Btssb
La robe de la Reine pour Midori, Btssb

2. Princess dresses

When I was a young lolita, I swore only by prints. I wanted prints, I wore prints, my dream dresses were only prints : I didn't even understand how girls could not like prints or could only like non-printed dresses. Between then and now I don't really know what happened to be honest. Maybe I just became a little more mature in my style and opinions ? A lot of my favorites dresses are now non-printed, though I'm still not big fan of colour block dresses (as old school could provide and is still providing). Princess dresses are something I wouldn't even glance at in my first years as lolita, but now... All I want is ruffles, lace, pastel colours and gold accents ! On the contrary of chocolate and biscuit prints it seems like I only enjoy BtssB princess-like dresses, either they are OPs or JSKs : they are so refined and elaborate.

From left to right : Drink me, Angelic Pretty
Fairy Marine, Angelic Pretty
Glass Doll, Angelic Pretty

3. Organza, chiffon and other transparent fabrics

Did I ever told you how glad I was that lolita brands have been using new fabrics in all their collections ? Chiffon, organza and all those pretty transparent fabrics are THE real new trend (and discovery) of the 2010's for lolita fashion ! It started with blouses and socks it's now taking the trend to a whole new level with all-organza dresses~ What a pleasure for me ! I love the magical-girl feeling of those dresses it's all so fluffy and dreamy either it's in solid block organza or a print on chiffon. Plus, it's perfect for spring and summer : two seasons I enjoy wearing lolita the most.

From left to right : Rabbit Party, Angelic Pretty
Sweetie Violet, Angelic Pretty
Fancy Paper Dolls, Angelic Pretty

4. Lavender colour 

From all the colours — except brown colourway for chocolate and biscuit prints — it seems that I can't have enough lavender dresses. I have a conflictual relationship with this colour : I hated it as much as I liked it for a long time but it seems that now it's pretty popular colour in lolita brands I just can only love it. I thought that it was a too childish and silly colour, even more than pink (though I've always loved pink), it only has been two or three years that I've begun to see it as a cute but refined colour. I feel like Angelic Pretty can release anything they want if there is a lavender colourway : it will for sure be my favorite. If some colours don't suit my skincolour and/or haircolour (for instance, I love white but not sure it would fit me that much), it seems lavender is one of those that suits me best — maybe that's just why I like it so much ?

From left to right : Dreamy Horoscope, Angelic Pretty
Cosmic, Angelic Pretty
Misty Sky, Angelic Pretty

5. Constellation and sky prints

I must admit I do not like all the constellation and sky prints (looking at you dream sky), but well... I do like many of them. One of my (shameful and unconfessed) dream dress is the BtssB's Hoshi no Namida Princess OP and I think my love for Constellation prints started with it in 2011. It's so big and impressive, it has the biggest waisties I've ever seen and even the waisties have little waisties on it (well, they are small ribbons, haha). The print is a more or less accurate star map, I really really like it this way — as Angelic Pretty did with Cosmic print also. It's a kind of pattern that I adore (I've even been considering to tattoo my back as a star map) but I also like the sky and cloud prints that Angelic Pretty can usually release. Dreamy Horoscope, Misty Sky are part of my favourite dresses as long as Star Money (Juliette & Justine), for instance~

Hoshi no Namida OP, Btssb

Curiously, while I was writing this post I just noticed that my ultimate dream dress do not match AT ALL, ANY of those five points. How is that even possible ?? I'm wondering too... But really if I had to choose one dress I think it might this one : the Sugary Carnival Special Edition for Sendai Shop. The shape, the print, the colour... I love everything about it !

Sugary Carnival special set, Angelic Pretty

What are the kind of prints, colours, fabrics do you like the most in lolita fashion ? 

Do you collect a special kind of dresses ? I know a lot of people collect velvet dresses or fawn prints ! 

Do you have an ultimate dream dress (if you could pick just one !) ? (*⌒∇⌒*)

EGL : January and February monthly themes !

Hello dears~ How are you ? I'm having a holiday break and while I was supposed to study, I'm currently not studying at all (yay !), taking time photographing outfits, blogging, watching tv shows, rolling desperately on my floor, some fun stuffs. I swear I'm going to study, starting on Thursday, that's good day for studying.

While usually I don't take part a lot in EGL monthly themes, I feel like the past two months' themes have been very funny to do. January theme is, like usual, wardrobe theme ! I did it last year (with very crappy pictures.) but wasn't really happy about it. I took a looot of time this January, I posted late, but at least I'm happy about it. I'm not going to post it again on my blog since it was already a pain to upload and lay out every pictures on LiveJournal. But if you are curious to watch it, please follow this link (or click on the picture above, because I'm such a talented blog-designer)♡

Let's talk about real business. February's theme was Dress me up !

« We've all had a day (or two, or twenty) where we just can't seem to come up with a perfect coordinate and longed for a lolita stylist. Well, it's time to change that, and let a member of EGL dress you up! Share your closet and wait for one of our fashion-forward members to come up with a stunning coordinate for you. We'll do a big reveal post at the end of the month for all participants to share their amazing coordinates! »

Doesn't it sound fun ? I was paired up with Rie Chan, a lovely classical-gothic lolita from Antwerp (I think so ?). Out respective styles aren't the same, I think it's part of the challenge — and also big part of the fun. I told her it seems difficult to do another style than sweet lolita with a wardrobe like mine, so she came up with a gothic inspired coordination using sweet/classical items ! What a clever idea~ 

I am wearing : Dress : MILK — Blouse : Angelic Pretty 
Headdress, bag, socks : BtssB — Vest : AatP — Shoes : André

What do you think about it ? I haven't thought about putting my vest on a dress ! With the black blouse it's looking like I'm wearing the jacket, I really love the effect. More than a lolita outfit, it makes me feel about a classy-but-cute casual outfit ! 

Rie Chan also suggested a second outfit. Sweeter, it really matched my usual style. I guess she guessed well the feeling of my wardrobe, haha~ It really could be an outfit I could wear casually. Well... I'm even pretty sure I've already worn this outfit, minus the blouse. I have to say the blouse wasn't really matching the whole outfit, but my wardrobe pictures weren't that clear about colours (and the blouse didn't really look like it has princess sleeves on the picture of my wardrobe post).

I now can't wait to see Rie Chan's outfit~ I did my best to match her wardrobe with some kind of classical-royal outfit in all bordeaux x cream colours. I will show you her outfit (or my outfit ? Don't know...) as soon as she posts it (and if she allows me to).

Time for bonus pictures ! Thank you for reading ! I will soon be back with the second part of Frock On's report and with some posts about (not so) mysterious but ultra-cute indie Japanese Brands !

Stay tuned (^_^)ノ