Shoichi Aoki

Shoichi Aoki (青木 正一, Aoki Shōichi, born 1955) is a Japanese photographer and the creator of STREET Magazine, TUNE Magazine and FRUiTS magazine. He also subsequently created the Fruits and Fresh Fruits (collections of Japanese street fashion) photo-books as a way of offering his photos to the foreign market.

Contents

• No more fashionable kids to photograph
• FRUiTs Tokyo Street Style
• Magazines
• Books
• References

Aoki was born in Tokyo, began documenting street fashion in Tokyo's fashionable Harajuku area in the mid 1990s when he noticed a marked change in the way young people were dressing. Rather than following European and American trends, people were customising elements of traditional Japanese dress - kimono, obi sashes and geta sandals - and combining them with handmade, secondhand and alternative designer fashion in an innovative DIY approach to dressing.

In 1997, Aoki founded the monthly magazine FRUiTS, now a cult fanzine with an international following, to record and celebrate the freshness of fashion in Harajuku. All photographs in the exhibition were originally published in FRUiTS.

Magazines

STREET (began in 1985)

FRUiTS (began in 1997)

TUNE (began in 2004)

.RUBY (began in 2012)

Books

Fruits - Phaidon Press (January 6, 2001) - ISBN 978-0-7148-4083-3

Fresh Fruits - Phaidon Press (June 1, 2005) - ISBN 978-0-7148-4510-4