Decora
デコラ / late 1990s– / Style / Street Style
A Harajuku style that layers masses of hairclips and toy-like accessories until sheer quantity becomes the organizing principle. It is maximalism worked out on the body.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Masses of hairpins
- Layered accessories
- Saturated multicolor
- Character goods
Best used for
- Displays and shop floors where sheer quantity is the point, kept legible
- Showing a personal collecting habit as an expression of the person
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Treat letters as another trinket, scattered at badge scale
- Composition
- Keep density unbroken head to foot and fill any gap that opens
- Material
- Plastic toys, fluorescent color, hairclips, everything light enough to layer
- Caution
- More colors without enough density just looks messy, and the structure that makes quantity itself the principle never appears.
- Further study
- FRUiTS and Shoichi Aoki / 6%DOKIDOKI / the connection to maximalism
Related entries
- Kidcore (キッドコア)Shared effects: Play / Exhilaration.Compare Decora and Kidcore
- Gyaru (ギャル)Same Street Style lineage.Compare Decora and Gyaru
Often confused with
More from Street Style
Continue through styles in the same Street Style family, prioritised by shared effects.
- Gorpcore (ゴープコア)Shared effects: Intimacy / Play.
- Mission School (ミッション・スクール)Shared effects: Intimacy / Play.
- Hypebeast Style (ハイプビースト・スタイル)Shared effects: Exhilaration / Intimacy.
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