“There’s a Limit to What Human’s Can Wear, so I Abandon my Svelte Waistline!”

This one has a bit of age, but it seems to have passed under the radar. Do you remember the JOJO x Japan Original Beauty collaboration from back in October? You may have seen the costumes or some of the hairdressing videos, but have you seen any of the show itself other than the promotional posters? I hadn’t, but Shiseido was nice enough to put a small video of parts of the reception party up on their channel. It’s interesting to see how big a media event it apparently was and how much more there was to the fashion than the JoJo stuff. The unique hairstyles particularly stand out.

That video was part of this Naver collection that has a few pictures of the event and participants.

Second, do you remember this picture? I dubbed it the Jonabar. It was an entry for one of the legs of JoJo Royale that struck a chord with me because I think it’s funny. Well, as it seems:

Making JoJo themed chocolate art is apparently a thing. And the art is certainly impressive. I’m not even sure how to get details like the folds in clothing or the rough sections of Josuke’s hair. You see a lot like this with the detailed art.

And there are some that are very impressive drawing wise and as full artistic sets.

Like this. This is the sort of thing I’d imagine as the centerpiece of a JoJo theme wedding. I’m mostly enamored with the detailing on the stone mask, but I like that all the sound effects, which I assume are cookies, must be handmade because they don’t have a regular shape. That’s an impressive dedication to a project. I don’t know if I’d be able to eat it.

These images come from this Naver collection. You can see a few more here. The Diego one is especially nice.

Cosplaying JoJo for the Fashion Conscious

Cosplaying JoJo’s is hard. Anime/manga character designs aren’t exactly known for being subtle, but JoJo’s costume design gets especially outlandish because of how influenced Araki is by the fashion industry. It’s a give and take relationship, though,  and sometimes the fashion industry gets to dip its hands in the JoJo pool, as you may remember from those GUCCI crossovers and and the SPUR cover designs. A little while back, various JoJo character designs were used in a promotional campaign “Japan Original Beauty” in conjunction with Shiseido Company, one of the world’s oldest cosmetics and hair care companies. Characters are used from Part 4 up with the exception of Polnareff. That second video has a point for point comparison for the campaign’s character design vs. the originals.

The first video, however, is a special “Making of” video from Shiseido themselves. As they are a cosmetics company, it serves them well to show their products in use, so they let you in a little on the process of how the more intense hairstyles are made. They are all wigs, but wigs need just as much careful planning and dressing as any normal hair does. The big ball ends of the Risotto costume are very interesting like some sort of human Christmas decoration, but the Valentine hair impresses me the most with how they get it to stick in those distinct loops.

If you’d like to see more pictures of the costumes and also some of the event, those videos came from here.