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I'm not a HUGE fan of this show, but I got stuck watching it Thursday night on VH1. They were surprised with a trip to Japan. One of the challenges dealt with Japanese Street Fashion. They had to run around Tokyo and create there own Japanese Street Style outfit in hopes of inspiring the fashion designers of MILK. I'm not going to explain the whole episode so I better give you this link:

http://www.tvgasm.com/archives/americas_next_top_model/000445.php

I have to admit, seeing rail skinny want to be models run around Tokyo trying to look Lolita kind of insulted me. But I did also find it funny for that same reason. They made fun of the example models at the beginning of the challenge. They said the model's headdress made her look like "Mr. Potato Head." I was upset by there lack of inspiration and effort as well.

I did get to see inside a Metamorphoze shop though. I honestly think Ann should have won the challenge, because her outfit was the cutest.

So this made me wonder, what are your thoughts? Have you seen this episode.

True this is old, but then again, I barely ever watch TV. I wasn't too offended. I just thought it was funny. Plus it was nice to see Lolita's on American TV.

I try to catch the show because i want to get a good head start in hte fashion world.

But while watching the show--i was a little insulted. They all looked more "harajuku" than Lolita to me. And it made me angry that i threw the head dress at the tv.

It was more annoying though, because it was almost like seeing the American Lolita's dreams be made a mockery.

I honestly did not see that episode at all. I kind of like the show just cuz I am a huge fashion whore my self. But The girls do not seem every excepting of other cultures fashion style espically ones that embrace street fashion so very much such as Japan. I think it would have been interesting but every amusing to see these girls try and pull off looking like a lolita espially since half the time when girls like us who actually know a crap about the fahshion go into it buying a nice designer dress of the style or making one that looks great. But then get bad mouthed by creeps on the street saying we need to not dress like dolls. I would farrr rather dress like a doll then a hoe on the street like your culture aparently thinks is ok to do nowadays.

I'm sort of indifferent... I wish I could have seen it... but I don't think that they have the real love of the style, like we here do... but it was nice that it was shown in America...
Kinda makes me wish that there were a couple Loli stores in the US, but am glad there are not, because everyone would be disrespectful of it...
(thinks of how goth and gothic are often seen as the same thing and/or are often associated with punk and freak.....)

That is a little terrifying. D:

I'm a big fat b***h and I don't at all appreciate seeing Lolita in mainstream media as some dreadful fad. ;( So, I can't say I am happy that this episode aired... but maybe it will make people stop asking me if I am in a play all the time if they know that I dress the way I do as a fashion, not a costume. XD

I don't think anyone here should feel insulted. No one on that show tried to look "Lolita" they just had to put together a creative Japanese-inspired outfit.
It just so happened that Lolita was mixed in there a little as well. I don't know anyone who saw that episode and got the wrong idea about lolita.

Even in that article, Lolita is mentioned only once.

The Japan trip was my favorite part of that show, personally. While I agree, most girls didn't appreciate the culture they were learning about, I still enjoyed watching it.

does anyone know if this episode has actually made it's way to the internet or did the land of america hate it so much that they didn't bother? I really want to see the episode cause it sounds like they murdered a great thing... but seeing is believeing in these sorts of cases.