Natural kei

UPDATE: I have recently found out some new information about natural kei's identity that I highly recommend reading in addition to this post. You can find it here. Welcome to the fourth post in this series, my deers! Today we will be discussing one of the longest-running natural Japanese fashions, Natural Kei. Natural Kei fashion is no longer a very active style, although it is by no means completely dead. However, it exists more now as a style in the collective conscious, rather than having…

UPDATED 101114 One of the biggest questions in the mori community is, "What's the difference between mori kei and natural kei?" I think this is a great topic to discuss, since there seems to be a lot of confusion and since the styles are actually very different! Additionally, there is a lot of history here and you can make your own decision about my interpretation. ❁ The History The oldest style between the two is the natural kei, but it has quite a different aesthetic than what I believe is…

Mori kei vs Natural kei; love those yellow shoes!

Mori kei fashion and minimalism seems like exact opposites, I know. I've had so many people ask me how you can possibly combine the two. In fact, there are some who don't think it's possible. However, I believe that it is possible, and I'd like to propose to you just how to do it. I'm splitting this up into two options, which I'm calling the moderate approach, and the capsule wardrobe approach. This post will focus on the moderate approach, and in another post I'll take a look at the caspule…

Mori kei, natural kei, feminine dress

One guilty reason why I love my students is because I often mine them for cool things. They usually don’t realize that they’re the ones who are in the thick of it. They tell me about …