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Spotlight: Inside the Bedrooms of Tokyo's Gyaru Girls

By David Schonauer   Thursday July 9, 2026

Photographer Alex Waespi’s ongoing series depicts the world of gyaru – the maximalist, fantastical fashion subculture and ideology that emerged in the 1990s and evolved into many different substyles and adjacent subcultures. “The origin was a rejection of traditional conservative expectations placed on young Japanese women, but [the term] has …

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