Break out your childhood Hello Kitty accessories, because Kawaii fashion is trending once ... their lack of post-school options, turned to the cute culture as a means of subverting cultural ...

The term, which is Japanese for "cute," stems from a subculture ... cardigan set or a fruit-print sweater vest for a Kawaii touch. The Jumz Accessories Maya Bead Bag ($160) will help you achieve ...

The California-based Etsy shop it comes from is highly rated and has a ton of other cute personalized accessories and gifts ... papers tucked away. This kawaii potato-shaped wireless mouse ...

Integral to the global phenomena of cute, the exhibition asserts, is “kawaii,” a Japanese word ... opened a shop in downtown Tokyo selling accessories and stationery with Western motifs ...

"Kawaii just means cute, if you go into Claire's Accessories it's all kawaii. The only difference is that kawaii is more over the top cute, so you might wear all the contents of Claire's ...

It was popular then and will be even more popular now; this is the cartoon cat who took Japanese kawaii culture global ... quality instruments and super-cute accessories.” ...

As the economy progressed through the 1970s and 1980s, so did consumer subcultures – and cute as a style began ... saw the refreshing of the ultimate kawaii brand, Hello Kitty, expanded to ...

A timeline cleanse is meant to interrupt that cycle with a reprieve from the chaos. “I think kawaii, or cute feelings, reminds us of human connection that we sometimes forget,” says Hiroshi ...

But what does “kawaii” actually mean? In Japanese, the word literally means “acceptable for affection” or “possible to love” and has been translated as meaning “cute,” “adorable, ...

Cute—"Kawaii" in local parlance—wears many guises in Japan. There's old-school kawaii, embodied by the helpless, mouthless gaze of Hello Kitty. There's the newer guy-cute, manifest by masses ...