Photographer Shoichi Aoki on capturing Tokyo street fashion edition.cnn.com

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 6 months ago in Art & Culture

For over two decades, Japanese photographer Shoichi Aoki has been documenting the most outlandish, provocative and definitive Tokyo street fashion.

But in December 2016, Aoki shut down the cult fanzine after 233 issues, declaring a lack of fashionable people to photograph and, in an interview with CNN, attributes the influx of fast-fashion brands and influence of social media to the increasingly generic state of the capital's street fashion.