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==Concept==
==Concept==
Kerashop Arena was described by shopping complex bigstep as:   
Kerashop Arena was described by shopping complex bigstep as:   
<blockquote>It is one of the best Gothic & Lolita fashion select shops in Osaka. We are constantly developing products with more than 20 brands. There are plenty of collaborations with music, such as a handshake event for visual kei bands. You also challenge fashion with outstanding individuality!<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Kerashop|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060426193546/http://www.big-step.co.jp/shop/apparel/kera.html|url-status=live|website=Big Step}}</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>It is one of the best Gothic & Lolita fashion select shops in Osaka. We are constantly developing products with more than 20 brands. There are plenty of collaborations with music, such as a handshake event for [[Visual Kei|visual kei]] bands. You also challenge fashion with outstanding individuality!<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Kerashop|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060426193546/http://www.big-step.co.jp/shop/apparel/kera.html|url-status=live|website=Big Step}}</ref></blockquote>
==History==
==History==
''This section is incomplete, you can help it by adding information about: Brand History ''
''This section is incomplete, you can help it by adding information about: Brand History ''
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==== Print Magazine ====
==== Print Magazine ====
Kera magazine started publishing as Kerouac with the tagline "For Excentric boys & girls". The X in Excentric was a different color in the title treatment. Volume 1 retailed for 480 yen.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Kera 1|year=1998}}</ref> By early 2000, the letters 'o', 'o' and 'c' were being printed small, so the title appeared to be KERA, and by the summer of 2001, those letters were dropped entirely.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Kera 33 (June)|year=2001}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Kera 18 (March)|location=2000}}</ref> The concept of the magazine was 'the most real Harajuku Street Magazine'.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Harajuku Subculture Magazine KERA To Cease Print|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BSNvSoghxEr/|url-status=live|website=Tokyo Fashion Instagram}}</ref>
Kera magazine started publishing as Kerouac with the tagline "For Excentric boys & girls" 1998. The X in Excentric was a different color in the title treatment. Volume 1 retailed for 480 yen.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Kera 1|year=1998}}</ref> By early 2000, the letters 'o', 'o' and 'c' were being printed small, so the title appeared to be KERA, and by the summer of 2001, those letters were dropped entirely.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Kera 33 (June)|year=2001}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Kera 18 (March)|location=2000}}</ref> The concept of the magazine was 'the most real Harajuku Street Magazine'.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Harajuku Subculture Magazine KERA To Cease Print|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BSNvSoghxEr/|url-status=live|website=Tokyo Fashion Instagram}}</ref>


Early issues of the magazine were similar in content to [[FRUITS]]: full page, glossy color photos of street snaps. Even the features like Hair Wars (cool alternative hair styles) and Snap in the Room were mostly photography based.<ref name=":0" /> A small number of black and white pages featured pop culture, interviews, shop guides and letters to the editor which included indie brand features and fan art.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Kera 6|year=1999}}</ref> Around 2000, the magazine started including features which showed the latest items from different brands, either in themed styling features, or simply as the latest items.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Kera 27 (December)|year=2000}}</ref>
Early issues of the magazine were similar in content to [[FRUiTS Magazine|FRUiTS]]: full page, glossy color photos of street snaps. Even the features like Hair Wars (cool alternative hair styles) and Snap in the Room were mostly photography based.<ref name=":0" /> A small number of black and white pages featured pop culture, interviews, shop guides and letters to the editor which included indie brand features and fan art.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Kera 6|year=1999}}</ref> Around 2000, the magazine started including features which showed the latest items from different brands, either in themed styling features, or simply as the latest items.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Kera 27 (December)|year=2000}}</ref>


The final print issue was the June 2017 issue published April 15, 2017.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=KERA June 2017 Issue|url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/KERA-June-2017-Issue/dp/B06XC4JBJ5/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Kera+2017&qid=1648143696&sr=8-2|url-status=live|website=Amazon Japan}}</ref>
The final print issue was the June 2017 issue published April 15, 2017.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=KERA June 2017 Issue|url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/KERA-June-2017-Issue/dp/B06XC4JBJ5/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Kera+2017&qid=1648143696&sr=8-2|url-status=live|website=Amazon Japan}}</ref>
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=== Select Shop ===
=== Select Shop ===
In late 2018, Kera Shop shinjuku announced they would start carrying the Chinese indie brand soufflesong.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kera shop Shinjuku will begin carrying Souffle Song.|url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/lolitaupdates/posts/1097952093717551/?__cft__[0]=AZXK2ZtapEAkqSAWeBQmds6SHysQ5McDUgPFdwDEW1d_qsQ_1XXhjOawGxXhglBAZdAuGMzKb8DaGJWbaEMp9-Zfrk5nxXuBEumIRksZtlcwX0dpb7XPnnYi3Vreg4QtgLtpHFSIiJSlIVlwNT4GpKqW&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R|url-status=live|website=Lolita Updates Facebook}}</ref>
In late 2018, Kera Shop shinjuku announced they would start carrying the Chinese indie brand [[Soufflesong|SouffleSong]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kera shop Shinjuku will begin carrying Souffle Song.|url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/lolitaupdates/posts/1097952093717551/?__cft__[0]=AZXK2ZtapEAkqSAWeBQmds6SHysQ5McDUgPFdwDEW1d_qsQ_1XXhjOawGxXhglBAZdAuGMzKb8DaGJWbaEMp9-Zfrk5nxXuBEumIRksZtlcwX0dpb7XPnnYi3Vreg4QtgLtpHFSIiJSlIVlwNT4GpKqW&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R|url-status=live|website=Lolita Updates Facebook}}</ref>


==== Online Shop ====
==== Online Shop ====
Kerashop online closed on January 15th, 2019. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Kera Shop Online has closed.|url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/lolitaupdates/posts/1121655661347194/|url-status=live|website=Lolita Updates Facebook}}</ref>
Kerashop online closed on January 15th, 2019. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Kera Shop Online has closed.|url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/lolitaupdates/posts/1121655661347194/|url-status=live|website=Lolita Updates Facebook}}</ref> Individual webshops for Kist


=== Kera Shoes ===
=== Kera Shoes ===
Kera shoes was an in-house shoe brand.
Kera shoes was an in-house shoe brand.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kera Shoes|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040216091120/http://www.kerashop.net/kerashoes/|url-status=live}}</ref>


==Notable Figures==
==Notable Figures==
'''[[Misako Aoki]]''' - Model
'''[[Misako Aoki]]''' '''(青木美沙子)'''- Model. Blood Type O, 157cm tall. Misako was already working for Kera in 2002 at 18 years old.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book|title=Kera 44|year=2002|pages=194}}</ref> In an unofficial poll of Japanese lolita in late 2005, Misako was voted as the favorite reader model with 13% of the vote.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|title=[Title] I would like to ask KERA readers. Who is your favorite reader model?|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011045030/http://gll.jp/ques/anq.cgi?data=20050907153150|url-status=live|website=Gothic Lolita Links}}</ref>
 
'''[[Chikage Watanabe]]''' '''(渡辺千景)''' - Model. In an unofficial poll of Japanese lolita in late 2005, Chikage was voted as the second favorite reader model with 12% of the vote.<ref name=":5" />


'''[[Akira]]''' - Model
'''[[Akira]]''' - Model
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'''[[Aito]] -''' Osaka shop manager circa 2017, designer for [[Royal Princess Alice.]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Oni-Con 2018 Fashion Show ft. Royal Princess Alice, Bio・Politics, and Sex Pot ReVeNGe|url=https://stephano.me/blog/oni-con-2018-fashion-show-ft-royal-princess-alice-biopolitics-sex-pot-revenge/|url-status=live|website=Stephano}}</ref>
'''[[Aito]] -''' Osaka shop manager circa 2017, designer for [[Royal Princess Alice.]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Oni-Con 2018 Fashion Show ft. Royal Princess Alice, Bio・Politics, and Sex Pot ReVeNGe|url=https://stephano.me/blog/oni-con-2018-fashion-show-ft-royal-princess-alice-biopolitics-sex-pot-revenge/|url-status=live|website=Stephano}}</ref>
'''[[Yurie]] (ユリエ)''' - Model. 164cm tall. As of 2002, she was 20 years old.<ref name=":4" />
'''[[Sarah Mary]] (紗羅マリー)''' - Model. 165cm tall. As of 2002, she was 15 years old.<ref name=":4" />
'''[[Lily]] (ゆり)''' - Model. Blood Type B, 163cm tall. As of 2002, she was 20 years old.<ref name=":4" />


==Locations/Sales Model==
==Locations/Sales Model==
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{{Webshop|https://kist-sapporo.stores.jp/}}
{{Webshop|https://kist-sapporo.stores.jp/}}
|Kerashop Street
|Kerashop Street
Kerashop Maria
Kerashop Maria<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Shoplist (2007)|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070409094826/http://www.indexcomm.co.jp/kera/shop_list.html#|url-status=live|website=Kera}}</ref>
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|TyCHE Maria Sendai
|TyCHE Maria Sendai
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|Active
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|Kerashop Maria<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kerashop Maria Hiroshima|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207053502/http://www.indexcomm.co.jp/kera/shop_list/shop_w07.html|url-status=live|website=Kera}}</ref>
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|TyCHE Maria Fukuoka
|TyCHE Maria Fukuoka
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|〒812-0012　福岡県福岡市博多区博多駅中央街9-1　博多マルイ５Ｆ
|〒812-0012　福岡県福岡市博多区博多駅中央街9-1　博多マルイ５Ｆ
|Active
|Active
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|{{Blog|https://web.archive.org/web/20080308142709/http://keraheaven.blog93.fc2.com/}}
|Kerashop Heaven  
|Kerashop Heaven  
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|〒160-0002　東京都新宿区新宿3－8－1<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kera Shop Tokyo|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060705173438/http://www.indexcomm.co.jp/kera/shop_list/shop_w01.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
|〒160-0002　東京都新宿区新宿3－8－1<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kera Shop Tokyo|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060705173438/http://www.indexcomm.co.jp/kera/shop_list/shop_w01.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
|Closed
|Closed
?-2006-?
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{{Blog|https://web.archive.org/web/20160720130900/http://yaplog.jp/kera777/}}
{{Blog|https://web.archive.org/web/20160720130900/http://yaplog.jp/kera777/}}
|''twitter is now the RPA Photostudio twitter''
|''twitter is now the RPA Photostudio twitter''
|-
|Kerashop Muse Oita
|Japan
|大分フォーラス　3F
〒870-0035　大分県大分市中央町1-2-7
|Closed
?-2007-?
|{{Website|https://web.archive.org/web/20080213081015/http://pksp.jp/kerashopmuse/}}
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|Kerashop Maria Kobe
|Japan
|〒650-0021　神戸市中央区三宮町1-5-26　三宮ビブレ6F<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Shoplist (2007 April)|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070414183458/http://www.kerashop.net/|url-status=live|website=KeraShop}}</ref>
|Closed
?-2007-?
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|Kerashop Zero
|Japan
|〒422-0000　静岡県静岡市葵区伝馬町6-1　SHIZUOKA109 2F<ref>{{Cite web|title=Shoplist (2008)|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216000850/http://www.kerashop.net/|url-status=live|website=Kerashop}}</ref>
|Closed
?-2007-2014-?
|{{Blog|https://web.archive.org/web/20080216000850/http://kerashopzero.seesaa.net/}}
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|}
|}
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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*[https://www.example.com] – an external link without a label
*[https://www.example.com] – an external link without a label
[[Category:Brands]]
[[Category:Brands]]
[[Category:Publications]]

Latest revision as of 22:50, 16 September 2023

Kera
KerastyleLogo.png
FoundedYEAR
CountryJapan
No. of locations7
Founder(s)NAME
Websitewebsite
Webshopwebshop
TwitterKERAonlineSHOP
Current statusActive

Kera is a Japanese brand best known for their line of select shops and their street fashion magazine.

Concept

Kerashop Arena was described by shopping complex bigstep as:

It is one of the best Gothic & Lolita fashion select shops in Osaka. We are constantly developing products with more than 20 brands. There are plenty of collaborations with music, such as a handshake event for visual kei bands. You also challenge fashion with outstanding individuality![1]

History

This section is incomplete, you can help it by adding information about: Brand History

Magazine

Print Magazine

Kera magazine started publishing as Kerouac with the tagline "For Excentric boys & girls" 1998. The X in Excentric was a different color in the title treatment. Volume 1 retailed for 480 yen.[2] By early 2000, the letters 'o', 'o' and 'c' were being printed small, so the title appeared to be KERA, and by the summer of 2001, those letters were dropped entirely.[3][4] The concept of the magazine was 'the most real Harajuku Street Magazine'.[5]

Early issues of the magazine were similar in content to FRUiTS: full page, glossy color photos of street snaps. Even the features like Hair Wars (cool alternative hair styles) and Snap in the Room were mostly photography based.[2] A small number of black and white pages featured pop culture, interviews, shop guides and letters to the editor which included indie brand features and fan art.[6] Around 2000, the magazine started including features which showed the latest items from different brands, either in themed styling features, or simply as the latest items.[7]

The final print issue was the June 2017 issue published April 15, 2017.[5][8]

Kera Style Online Magazine

Kera launched an online magazine, Kera Style, in May 2017.[9] In September 2017, Kera Style was hacked.[10]

Select Shop

In late 2018, Kera Shop shinjuku announced they would start carrying the Chinese indie brand SouffleSong.[11]

Online Shop

Kerashop online closed on January 15th, 2019. [12] Individual webshops for Kist

Kera Shoes

Kera shoes was an in-house shoe brand.[13]

Notable Figures

Misako Aoki (青木美沙子)- Model. Blood Type O, 157cm tall. Misako was already working for Kera in 2002 at 18 years old.[14] In an unofficial poll of Japanese lolita in late 2005, Misako was voted as the favorite reader model with 13% of the vote.[15]

Chikage Watanabe (渡辺千景) - Model. In an unofficial poll of Japanese lolita in late 2005, Chikage was voted as the second favorite reader model with 12% of the vote.[15]

Akira - Model

Yura PK - Model

Rie Yanai - Osaka shop manager circa 2001[16]

Aito - Osaka shop manager circa 2017, designer for Royal Princess Alice.[17]

Yurie (ユリエ) - Model. 164cm tall. As of 2002, she was 20 years old.[14]

Sarah Mary (紗羅マリー) - Model. 165cm tall. As of 2002, she was 15 years old.[14]

Lily (ゆり) - Model. Blood Type B, 163cm tall. As of 2002, she was 20 years old.[14]

Locations/Sales Model

This section is incomplete, you can help it by adding information about: Locations/Sales models

Shop List

Kera currently has several directly managed shops, however many have been re-branded as KIST or TyCHE.[18]

Directly Managed Shops

Shop Country Address Status Socials Former Name
Kist

Kist Maria

Japan 〒060-0062　北海道札幌市中央区南２条西４丁目　ピヴォ　２F Active KIST__M

by_KIST


k.i.s.t.m


by_kist


webshop

Kerashop Street

Kerashop Maria[19]

TyCHE Maria Sendai Japan 〒980-0811　宮城県仙台市青葉区一番町3-11-15　仙台フォーラス4F Active Kerashop Maria[20]
Kerashop Shinjuku Japan 〒160-0022　東京都新宿区新宿3-1-26　新宿マルイアネックス７Ｆ Active
TyCHE Maria Nagoya Japan 〒460-0008　愛知県名古屋市中区栄3-4-5　栄NOVA2F Active Kerashop Aula[21]
TyCHE Iero Kanazawa Japan 〒920-0997　石川県金沢市竪町２４番地　ベルセル１Ｆ Active
TyCHE Maria Hiroshima Japan 〒730-0031　広島県広島市中区紙屋町2-2-18　サンモール4F Active Kerashop Maria[22]
TyCHE Maria Fukuoka Japan 〒812-0012　福岡県福岡市博多区博多駅中央街9-1　博多マルイ５Ｆ Active blog Kerashop Heaven
Kerashop OlONE Shinjuku 8F(ANGEL)／6F(ARENA) Japan 〒160-0002　東京都新宿区新宿3－8－1[23] Closed

?-2006-?

Kerashop Arena Osaka Japan BIGSTEP 3F[24][1] Closed

2001-2017[25][26][27]

KERASHOP_OSAKA

blog

twitter is now the RPA Photostudio twitter
Kerashop Muse Oita Japan 大分フォーラス　3F

〒870-0035　大分県大分市中央町1-2-7

Closed

?-2007-?

website
Kerashop Maria Kobe Japan 〒650-0021　神戸市中央区三宮町1-5-26　三宮ビブレ6F[19][28] Closed

?-2007-?

Kerashop Zero Japan 〒422-0000　静岡県静岡市葵区伝馬町6-1　SHIZUOKA109 2F[29] Closed

?-2007-2014-?

blog

Gallery

  • Kera Volume 1, 1998

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Kerashop". Big Step.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kera 1. 1998.
  3. ↑ Kera 33 (June). 2001.
  4. ↑ Kera 18 (March). 2000.CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Harajuku Subculture Magazine KERA To Cease Print". Tokyo Fashion Instagram.
  6. ↑ Kera 6. 1999.
  7. ↑ Kera 27 (December). 2000.
  8. ↑ "KERA June 2017 Issue". Amazon Japan.
  9. ↑ "KERA ケラ Gothic&Lolita Bible ゴシック＆ロリータバイブル On line shop". Facebook.
  10. ↑ "Kera Style online magazine seems to have been compromised". Lolita Updates Facebook.
  11. ↑ "Kera shop Shinjuku will begin carrying Souffle Song". Lolita Updates Facebook.
  12. ↑ "Kera Shop Online has closed". Lolita Updates Facebook.
  13. ↑ "Kera Shoes".
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Kera 44. 2002. p. 194.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "[Title] I would like to ask KERA readers. Who is your favorite reader model?". Gothic Lolita Links.
  16. ↑ "Osaka Shop (2001)". Bigstep.
  17. ↑ "Oni-Con 2018 Fashion Show ft. Royal Princess Alice, Bio・Politics, and Sex Pot ReVeNGe". Stephano.
  18. ↑ "Kera Shop".
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 "Shoplist (2007)". Kera.
  20. ↑ "Kerashop Maria Sendai".
  21. ↑ "Kerashop Aula nagoya".
  22. ↑ "Kerashop Maria Hiroshima". Kera.
  23. ↑ "Kera Shop Tokyo".
  24. ↑ "Kerashop Osaka".
  25. ↑ "Shop List December 2001". BigStep.
  26. ↑ "Shop List (June 2001)". BigStep.
  27. ↑ "Selling Fixtures After Store Closing". Twitter.
  28. ↑ "Shoplist (2007 April)". KeraShop.
  29. ↑ "Shoplist (2008)". Kerashop.

External links

  • Kera Style – Current digital magazine
  • [1] – an external link without a label
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