Gothic and Lolita Photograph of Nao
| Linguistics | Text in the bottom right states; Nao, 24, Dress: second hand, Point of Fashion: To look like a doll, Current Obsession: Being a doll. |
| Concepts | Girl in gothic lolita style in her room with her dolls/Jumeau. Photograph from the book Gothic and Lolita by Masayuki Yoshinaga (2007). |
| Visuals | Large mixing of Victorian and Rococo era fashions and ideologies. The room is filled with French style dolls, six in frame. The interior decoration of the room is also in a gothic fashion, with dark colors like reds and blacks. |
| Emotions | Serious. Nao is very serious about her dolls and the aesthetic of them. Dressed in all black with white lace that is secondhand entails dedication to the fashion scene. |
| Characters/ Objects | Six Jumeau/French dolls, a Victorian style desk, other rococo, and Victorian elements in the room. Nao is standing on the right side of the image. |
| Scene | The room of Nao. In Tokyo, but generally undefined. |
| Aesthetics | Gothic Lolita and dolls. Nao states that she aspires to be a doll like the ones she has. The room is full of darker colors like reds and blacks. Everything is surrounding gothic lolita. |
| Westerness/ Japaneseness | Western interior decoration, French dolls, and the secondhand dress is a western style maid’s dress with a cross of lace. Major aspects of shojo are explicitly present. |
| Grotesque/ Abject | Completely removed from sartorial material expression of self. The shojo mentality that Nao embodies, makes her own liminal space, achieving jouissance through fashion. |