{"id":68,"date":"2011-01-21T14:24:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T21:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionvandals.tumblr.com\/post\/2861345932"},"modified":"2011-01-21T14:24:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T21:24:36","slug":"2861345932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Has anyone ever read the manga or seen the anime,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone ever read the manga or seen the anime, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paradise_Kiss\">Paradise Kiss<\/a>? It&#8217;s by Ai Yazawa, the same woman behind<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nana_%28manga%29\"> Nana<\/a>. <strong>It&#8217;s like part soap opera, part fashion porn. <\/strong>It centers around a group of pastel-hair-colored indie fashion designers who introduce a conservative\u00a0female student\u00a0to the world of alternative fashion. The designers turn the girl&#8217;s life around, all sorts of romantic drama ensues, and the characters do all of this while decked out in petticoats, fedoras, corsets, and face chains.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lfe0k9j18b1qam7dk.jpg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lfe118Ig8V1qam7dk.jpg\" width=\"252\" height=\"283\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lfe130Ez5a1qam7dk.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"320\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lfe16x3VHb1qam7dk.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, long story short, this is one series that&#8217;s worth cosplaying. Today I came across the first image, which features <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/AlodiaGosiengfiao\">Alodia Gosiengfiao<\/a> as the pink-haired, Miwako. I figured I&#8217;d highlight some of the other great cosplayers out there, paying homage to this simultaneously fashionable and compelling series.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lfe0xv38771qam7dk.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lfe0zbDdCf1qam7dk.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lfe0yw81zC1qam7dk.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lfe1dbQ6D01qam7dk.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lfe1f2jbTX1qam7dk.jpg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lfe1f9L8pO1qam7dk.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"577\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone ever read the manga or seen the anime, Paradise Kiss? It&#8217;s by Ai Yazawa, the same woman behind Nana. It&#8217;s like part soap opera, part fashion porn. It centers around a group of pastel-hair-colored indie fashion designers who introduce a conservative\u00a0female student\u00a0to the world of alternative fashion. The designers turn the girl&#8217;s life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petephillipsonline.com\/fashionvandals\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}