Whether it's fashion, music, or sports, there is a style that only each person can bring out in any genre. "Style is Everything." That's right, someone said that style is everything. "Style Resume" is a series of interviews with adults who, as the name suggests, have style. Updated every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, the ninth installment features Nakamura Non, who started her career as a stylist and is currently involved in activities such as conveying the Harajuku of the 1970s. Born and raised in Tokyo, Non's unique style was born from being exposed to the city's culture at a young age. Take a look at this article.
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05. When I was in high school, people would say to me, "You look like Harajuku."
After entering Tokyo Metropolitan Chitosegaoka High School, Shimokitazawa, which I had been familiar with for shopping since I was a child, became an area to hang out in after school. I would often hang out at a jazz cafe called "Masako" and chat with the adults who frequented it.
In my second year of high school, uniforms were abolished and I went to school in my own clothes. My classmates were Neutral, Continental (European-oriented), and Yankee. I was influenced by a magazine called "Fashion". "Fashion" promoted London-style fashion, so I took inspiration from that and wore overalls with lots of badges, rolled up my pants to show off my striped knee-high socks. At school, people would say, "NON looks like Harajuku." It seems that the public school kids had the perception that "high school students who go to Harajuku to hang out are kids who go to Aoyama Gakuin or somewhere like that." There was a hierarchy among high school students back then. And the towns they went to to hang out in were different.
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