Gothic and Lolita Photograph of Rosa Yura
| Linguistics | Rosa Yura, 22. Dress/Blouse: Second hand, Hat: Uiran Nagai, Point of Fashion: Antique back in time, Current Obsession: Making dolls. |
| Concepts | Rosa Yura is dressed in gothic lolita. She references the aesthetic of antiquity in her dress, and she likes making dolls/Jumeau. She is in the fashion scene of gothic lolita. |
| Visuals | Rosa Yura is dressed in a blouse and skirt that resemble a wedding dress or an aristocratic maiden’s dress that was more modern. Her hat is a banquet cap, she is wearing a necklace and four rings, has dark eyeshadow and long black hair with bangs. She is in the middle of a street in Tokyo and there seems to be a large car coming her way. |
| Emotions | Distressed. Her face is almost pouting, and she has her head slightly lowered, holding her hands together close to her chest. She is in an odd location. She is a maiden in distress. |
| Characters/ Objects | Rosa Yura is dressed in a secondhand blouse and dress, wearing a Uiran Nagai hat and white platform sandals. Photograph from the book Gothic and Lolita by Masayuki Yoshinaga (2007). |
| Scene | In the middle of the street in Tokyo. Undefined. |
| Aesthetics | Lolita. Gothic Lolita. She is dressed in a second hand, modern, white dress and blouse that resemble robe a la francaise style dress, that is mixed with a Victorian era aesthetic. |
| Westerness/ Japaneseness | American 1950’s dress in the designs of the pieces. Note that this type of American fashion was heavily influenced by French fashion. |
| Grotesque/ Abject | Rosa Yura entered a liminal and free-floating aesthetic of life, used the alter ego of the shojo, and achieved jouissance through dress. Abject in the qualities of gender performance through dress. |