/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9359298

several things are happening to jfashion right now

on the japan front
-overtaken by white/non japanese tourists, and the harajuku kids have been scared away

-rent is rising due to the 2020 Olympics

-international shipping is getting more expensive, so a lot of shops cannot afford to ship products overseas, it wouldn't be worth it

-related to the above, a lot of japanese stores are neglecting online sales all together. japan may seem progressive with technology, but they're actually slow on the uptake, and many of them have bare or old fashioned online storefronts

on the international front
-japan is no longer "trendy". the living doll trend is over, and a lot of weeaboos are becoming koreaboos instead

-replicas really hurt a lot of brand sales and while replicas have died down i think the damage was done

-rise of taobao and aliexpress over buying japanese brand, tumblr fashion and generic trends are favored over whats currently hot in Japan

I miss jfashion. I miss the 2010-2011 era of OTT sweet and gyaru. The current styles don't cut it for me, Larme is too normie, and the rest just don't appeal. The international community is also guilty of killing it- the need to categorize everything into tiny tiny substyles, nitpick and give every style a "name" has made jfashion exhausting.