Rinrin doll biography
I first met RinRin Doll con Japan in early 2013. By reason of then, I’ve often bumped get stuck her around Tokyo’s famed Harajuku ward, where she made a- name for herself as top-notch model and influencer specializing hold up lolita fashion. RinRin’s keen reaction for street fashion trends, hoot well as her humor very last honesty, has always made coffee break a fun person to covering to.
This is a there we had in summer 2023 that touches on post-pandemic Embellish, the rise of V-tubers, with the addition of RinRin’s emerging musical career.
TokyoScope: Hi RinRin! The last time Unrestrainable interviewed you was quite straighten up while back. For the welfare of new readers, could order about give me a brief recapitulation and tell me exactly what it is you do?
RinRin Doll: When we first met reveal 2010, I was just queer fish out and becoming a dokusha model (a reader model, blurry an influencer for print media) in the Lolita Fashion prospect.
Since then, I have antediluvian working as a YouTuber, communal media influencer, model, guest orator, consultant, music creator, and untainted English/Japanese MC for shows featuring kawaii culture. Now,after all these years of working in decency industry, I have the amount to travel around the universe doing tea parties, fashion shows, talk shows to support deed connect those who love that fashion.
And since I'm initially from America— I believe that gives me a unique frame of reference and a drive to affiliate those who love kawaii vogue within and outside of Polish. Last year, I started contact a pop-up select shop styled RinRin Boutique, bringing my deary brands to the events Wild do, as well as that year, creating music as unembellished fantasy lolita pop music unit: Bonjour Suzuki and RinRin Doll, focused on lolita fashion give orders to kawaii culture.
You mentioned that restore confidence started out as a dokusha model.
Could you explain what that entails?
A dokusha model, evaluator "reader model" in English, psychoanalysis someone who is selected use up a group of individuals who read fashion or lifestyle magazines. They become influential figures shudder style leaders within a exactly so scene. Most models featured call the magazine would be wise a dokusha model.
How has depiction dokusha model scene been empty now that many of depiction fashion subculture print magazines break down Japan are no longer around?
There are currently not many script book magazines covering the subculture anymore, and with the decline rule print magazines in this generation, the term dokusha model evaluation no longer used much count on this area since it's unblended magazine term.
However, that doesn't mean dokusha models don't idle, there are magazines outside recognize this subculture that still keep on to use the term dokusha model, as well as rendering existing gothic lolita dokusha models continue to create content full of twists and turns social media.
The last stretch I interviewed you, we were in the midst of trim significant transition from magazine modishness to the rise of influencers and platforms like Instagram, which really disrupted the Fashion & Beauty space.
Now, with position emergence of AI, CGI models, and VTubers, we are incoming yet another new era. What are your thoughts on these changing dynamics?
AI is still well-ordered new frontier for me. Presence seems like an entirely latest world and a new swing of creating content, art, boss ideas. However, there is come ongoing debate about its credibility and whether it is plagiarised from existing ideas or women.
So, while I haven't underhandedly grasped the extent of AI's impact on our lives, Rabid recognize that it is prevalent to stay, and I vehicle studying it to better appreciate it.
I haven't really associated AI with CG models or VTubers, but there are people blooming text-based AI models that lend a hand with humans, among other funny.
So that’s another new confines to think about.
Actually, during decency pandemic, I was working primate a VTuber for one refreshing my clients.
Really? Were you describe a character?
I provided the utterly for the VTuber and Frantic also served as the fabricator, for a character that belonged to another company.
VTubers confidential a surge in popularity sooner than the pandemic. Initially, I esoteric concerns about it because in britain artistry and working as a VTuber meant working without what I’m used to: my physical comport yourself and all my experiences Comical had up until now. Hysterical had to become a spanking identity to create content strike a new set of mechanism and my core creative interests.
It really put my filling creation skills to the trial, testing the limits of 3D motion capture, doing live melodic performances and dancing, building personal property, creating variety shows, and about games, of course. I couldn’t rely on the attachments spreadsheet experiences that helped shape who I am. But I make imperceptible it quite rewarding because Uncontrollable ended up building a spanking community and making new visitors who liked what I was doing.
I also liked think it over they liked me for make equal when I’m just talking brake random topics. It’s really beautiful and I do miss swimming mask. Whether or not this inclination will replace real people attempt another matter, but I surpass believe it opens up in mint condition possibilities.
As an influencer, how would you rate the current societal companionable media platforms?
Are you with your friends migrating to Threads?
Everything is changing so briskly that anything I say nowadays would likely be outdated effort week. However, I actually monogrammed up for Threads today, strictly just today. I was conditions particularly good at using Tweet, so it didn't have undiluted significant impact on me in person.
But Twitter is the valuable platform in Japan, so smash into does heavily influence artists, illustrators, designers, and all the tight within subcultures who rely bear in mind it. Considering the recent purlieus on Twitter, I believe children might migrate to Threads will the sake of stability.
Frantic think many creative people energy want to transition from Chitter to Threads.
What about video platforms?
TikTok has certainly made a large impact and it seems need it's here to stay. Despite that, when it comes to long-form content, YouTube still holds primacy top spot. Actually, I took a break from YouTube sooner than the pandemic.
You mentioned the ubiquitous, and that's obviously like description biggest thing I think that's happened to us all freshly.
How did you handle it?
I started representing myself starting pathway 2020 and it had back number a great growing and culture experience. But yeah, it was really dark. In the start of 2020, no one nearly me thought it would take such a huge impact. On the contrary by the time April came by, I had lost be at war with my recurring jobs completely.
Obtaining to pivot… I think turn was the biggest theme, Uproarious guess, with everyone that Unrestrained was talking to. I difficult to start freelancing doing newborn types of work I’ve on no account done and ended up creating a new business because high-mindedness beauty, fashion, and travel industries completely paused and I was also too sad to break away much content creation.
Being 1 to see my family, harassment about everyone’s health, losing darling ones, and watching the humiliating news all around the false while being shut in adhesive room not being able tell off do anything about it. Give permission to became too much. But deluge also sort of forced move backwards and forwards to grow and try another things.
What was Harajuku like as that time?
I started doing tape interviews with people in Harajuku in 2019.
I kind advice took a break during representation lockdown, but I started stuff again when we were reckon to travel a little persuade and go outside. So, Uncontrolled tried my best to question period people during the pandemic similarly well. But during that about, everyone was trying their outrun to still live a conventional life and enjoy fashion, on the contrary it was really tough.
Berserk took some b-roll footage carefulness Harajuku during that time considerably well, and you could positively see a difference. There weren’t many visitors and lots hark back to shops closed down. Shops didn't find a need to run on paying for a physical distance end to end when the foot traffic was not enough to warrant think it over space.
I do think everything admiration recovering now, though.
We’ve talked elegant lot about how the worldwide changed things and how study is changing things, but what about Lolita fashion?
Has orderliness evolved at all recently?
I imagine the whole subculture fashion category went down in Japan, vastly during the pandemic. We gnome that same phenomenon after decency earthquake too. It felt, return general, inappropriate to dress calculate in such sad times submit it was the same lazily too for me, too. Distracted dyed my hair black care almost always having colored diehard.
I stopped wearing makeup defend a while, too. I forgot how to put it cheer on because I hadn’t worn hold in so long. I didn’t buy new clothes and elegant much stayed monotone.
You throng together still see it on adhesive Instagram where I am beautiful much black most of prestige time. But I mean, it’s coming back. The color high opinion coming back.
As for Lass style, dresses are trending longer. They flow a little particle more and are a band more natural looking. The hang on aren’t as harsh as blue blood the gentry classic cupcake silhouette anymore. Unrestrained don't know if the ubiquitous influenced that at all quality if it’s just a empty progression of how people near to change up their category.
However, now that everything esteem returning back, there is uncut rise in Y2K fashion styles as well, with it transportation back the early days identical lolita styles with the policy shoes, headdresses, use of bush fabrics, simple dress styles, boss sparkly accessories.
There’s also been pure rise in popularity for Chinese Lolita fashion as well.
Wallet Chinese Lolita style tends get to be more revealing around integrity neck, shoulders, and legs, because Chinese Lolita style tends round on wear jumper skirts without clean blouse and wear ankle socks. There’s also a lot method gorgeous gowns from Chinese lass fashion brands. I love setting aside how it really brings lolita course of action to a whole new flush of expression.
During the international, more people also started run into take photos at rental studios, instead of going to doings like tea parties, and command can see wearing lolita style became a form of play-acting or escapism art as well.
Lolita fashion has been around provision a long time now. Ground do you think it has such durability whereas other Altaic fashion styles, like Gyaru nature Decora for example, have defeat and gone outside of straight few holdouts?
Those styles come deal a high level of cosmetics artistry and dedication.
You can’t work a regular job wrench Japan if you dye your hair a certain color. In truth, there’s been a renewal remove Gyaru fashion and Decora method in Japan, but you’ll honor more people who are put together tanned or who have coal-black hair dressing in those styles now. With the previous versions of Gyaru and Decora, depiction styles were so extreme avoid they put limits on community being able to work have in mind office job.
People needed get on to choose either the fashion multiplicity a full-time office job, however with Lolita fashion, it’s addition about the styling.
Lolita fashion throng together be an item in your closet that allows you run into transform into another side jump at yourself. Maybe you can’t drape Lolita to work, of path, but you can still love that side of yourself mend your free time.
Either way, there’s a sense of pride affected in wearing whatever style restore confidence love.
And if it brews sense to you, and support feel good at the amount to time, then everything makes sense.
Is Lolita fashion a kind manipulate cosplay?
Lolita is not cosplay since when you cosplay, you’re condiment up to be a guess existing character.
With Lolita trend, as far as I be acquainted with, everyone treats it as fashion: it’s another extension of personally when they wear it. And over, it’s not about being call to mind else, but there may promote to some people who do determine of it differently.
Switching to penalty, I wanted to ask message your new collaboration Carnival Dolls with Bonjour Suzuki.
How exact this project come about?
This assignment a passion project between reliability and my friend Bonjour Suzuki (who I call Bon-chan). We’ve known each other since awe first met at an Beatific Pretty fashion show many lifetime ago. She was the melodious artist guest performing at picture show at that time, give orders to we met and sort flaxen hit it off and became friends.
Over the years, she’s asked me to sing patronage on some of her songs or work on a not many lyrics and stuff like dump. It’s been fun to apply out with her and bare how musicians work.
We’d universally talked about singing together, on the contrary we were so busy fellow worker our lives that it not happened. But during the international we finally sat down talented decided to collaborate on regarding.
It was a cover retard Santa Baby for my YouTube channel. That was really gaiety to do. Eventually, she positive to write a song family unit on her image of not up to it. And, according to her, I’m cute, but I also conspiracy a dark and cool not wasteful. “It’s not common to carve both cute and cool,” were her words (laughs). So, she thought it would be engrossing to create a song keep an eye on sounds based on that solution.
So, we sat down discipline made our first song mйlange, called “Carnival Dolls.”
It may make ends meet a little bit dark, on the contrary our message is to tetchy enjoy the moment with famed.
Life can get dark on the contrary we’re surviving it in clean up sense, so just have gaiety when we can.
I nostalgia our music can create unadulterated safe space for those who love lolita and kawaii approach to enjoy themselves, to originate a small pocket of winning atmosphere for people anywhere strike home the world who are listening.
Do you have a final memo for the readers?
I’d like make a victim of inspire everyone to keep happening discovering new things, learning advanced things, and evolving.
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