Deep Dive on Japanese Aesthetics: How to build a Mori Kei, Visual Kei, Dolly Kei, Lolita wardrobe 

As someone that grew up in that era, mori kei fashion and fairycore fashion look very different to me. Mori layers a lot of traditional Scandinavian patterns in a sophisticated way, showcasing that raw "folk costume" lifestyle. Meanwhile, fairycore is too clean, too pure. It's just simple, dreamy European dresses.

i’m a big fan of visual kei but would love more videos going into depth on lolita considering how vkei can include gothic lolita fashion

I loved dolly kei as a 13 year old when I first discovered it but didn’t have the taste level and money to recreate it. I’m now 25 and I want to start dressing dolly kei so bad

thank you so much for this video im into vkei for like a year now and it was so hard for me to find where to shop for vkei clothes

I mean no offense at all, but some of this (just speaking on the Mori section) was not really accurate. When you learn about the Mori Girl aesthetic from the official Japanese sources it is about 98% unakin to Cottagecore and Fairycore. It's actually not quite as foresty as people tend to assume and is definitely not vintagey. The only thing vintagey about it is that sometimes there are brown suitcases that can look old but aren't necessarily actually old. White dresses are also not actually a part of Mori Girl fashion. Mori Girl fashion deals with mostly earthy colored fabrics with laced or plain edges, layers and Nordic type prints, and sometimes. Any white dresses would typically be used as an under-layer rather than worn alone. The fabrics in Mori Girl are also often patched together so one dress might have several different styles of fabric sewed together to make almost a splash outfit. Or at least this seems the most popular of the Mori styles but it's not even the usual of the Mori styles from the official magazines. Cottages are also not part of the aesthetic at all. Animals, flowers and herbs are but they are worked into the fashion or home decor in very delicate ways and are also not a major theme according to the official Japanese sources. These days we have so many aesthetics and most don't have any real book on them to tell you exactly what they are or should be so there's a lot of interpretation and almost no distinction between some of them. Mori Girl got pulled into that and so now people don't quite understand what it really is, but the Japanese magazine archives can be found on a blogspot called "idontknowmuchbutimstilllearning." It's pretty extensive and the more you look into it, the more you can tell it's really quite different from anything like Cottagecore or Fairycore. It's also quite different from what is usually pushed by more Mori focused sources as Mori. I feel there's no really good idea of what Mori is available except for in these official magazines. I was kind blown when I first saw them like "Wow this is nothing like what I keep seeing on Pinterest/Google/YT 🤔😲."

I’m a new mori girl and you explained everything so nicely for me, thank you

Most of this influence is from Mana sama i love him and his style of gothic lolita and aristocratic!!

Ahh I've been waiting for someone to do vids on mori kei! I love how grunge and fairycore is getting popular but a lot of those outfits aren't as soft/kawaii as I'd like them to be

As someone who has been wearing lolita for 5 years, and is also getting into other Jfashions like mori kei, this was a good introduction for beginners, and I appreciate the links to other information sources for lolita as it has the strictest ruleset of the Jfashions I am familiar with. All the information was mostly correct, with the only 'incorrect' things being things you will likely discover for yourself doing more research on each fashion and becoming more familiar with the look and feel of each one. I'd hesitate to call this a deep dive as it felt like very surface level information, however this does make it very accessible to people looking to learn more and can be an easy jumping off point for finding a new style for someone, which I appreciate. Overall good little video!

I found out about Aristocrat because of Mana! I love malice Mizer so much so I wanted to learn more about visual kei. great video, thank you!

Thank you so much for this video ! I really love japanese aesthetics and i would certainly love a whole video on lolita fashion ❤️✨

Yaaaay so happy to see you! And so excited you did a video on Japanese aesthetics 😊 Japanese fashion has been a major influence for me since I was in high school (a loooong time ago), and I remember lovingly paging through prized imported Japanese fashion mags as a teen and thinking how forward thinking they always were. Some of my issues were a couple years old at the time, and the styles were JUST becoming popular then. There’s just so much thought and beauty and consideration involved in even the “simplest” outfit, I just love it so much! Would love for you to do more videos on Japanese aesthetics - their “Fruits” street style, “gyaru” style, and of course Lolita. Thank you so so much again for creating such a wonderful and nostalgic video 💗💗💗 **edited for typos**

I’m starting to like this type of style a lot and I love to dress in bright colors, especially in the summer

I would love to see more examples of Mori Kei! Great job!

Awesome video✨ Would love a part two😊

Omgg If you dont mind, Could you make more videos like that exploring different types of aesthetic and fashion? Its so fun to learn about them, plus ur veryy Underrated

i love the mori kei aesthetic but the silhouettes feel so hard to pull off with just all that fabric and i feel like it would catch on things. also harder since i'm a pants girl

Loved this thanks Mariel ❤ Lolita would be so interesting!

ahh i love jfashion ^_^ ur voice is really calm to hear i would love to see more about jfashion on your channel :D

Thanks for this video, I just had a very nice older Japanese couple both tell me that I would look very pretty in a "Mori kei" style. I was wearing a dark green dress so maybe that's why they thought that? They told me to look it up haha

this was such a cute video ! thank you for making it, i'd love to see a part two if you ever make one (〃＾▽＾〃) Japanese aesthetics are so intricate and fun to draw, these types of subcultures are what got me interested in the country and im now in my third year of a Baschelor's degree in Japanese Language !

A podcast were you talk about fasion in generell would be asome! Just an idea. love ur videos

Would you consider doing a video about dressing coquette or cottagecore in fall and winter? It's difficult to find tips and you're always creative. Another thing that's missing on yt are the tie trend outfit inspiration vids

Thank you so much for taking the time to share and educate people on the origins some of these “core”s ngl as a lover of history, art and Japanese fashion I was finding it disheartening that a lot of people had no idea about the fashion history. I feel privileged to have witnessed this wild evolution myself and you’ve articulated so much of this so well. Dolly Kei and Visual Kei influence me heavily still 🤍✨🦋

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Glad I found this video. Does anyone know where to shop for clothes like mori kei?

V kei era❤

Hey could you do a video about 90s grunge,And I know this is not an aesthetic but violet harmon fashion from AHS season one! *If you watch it ofc*

you should talk about gyaru fashion 😳🙏

Can u say how to wear these casually? Like how do we tone it down to wear it everyday

Queria saber se dar pra ser mori girl sem ter que fazer camadas de roupas 😓

i want to wear and experiment with this stuff as a guy but dont know how

This style to me just screams Animal Crossing (is it called Animal Forest in Japanese?)

The first one is NOT Mori kei. Mori kei literally means “forest girl “

The video was very cute and quite accurate, but PLEASE don't call Japanese fashion subcultures "aesthetics" ToT it hurts my ears.( NO HATE AT ALL )

hi!! i wonder if you are filipino

so mori kei is like a cottagecore

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