A competition inspired by crazy Tokyo street styles, the fruits competition and parade is a chance to show off your favourite alternative outfit!

Whether you sewed something from scratch, imported rare Hello Kitty socks or just bought a T-shirt with a cool slogan on, fruits is a chace to strut your stuff, just for fun or entering the competition. Uniqueness is the key, combining elements of form, texture, pop icons or personal icons, blending or clashing – sewn or put together Frankenstein style.

The point of Fruits is to be creative, stand out and have fun!

Fruits Fashion competition:

Fruits is inspired by Japanese street style, a combination of Western and traditional Japanese wear, often customised. The point of Fruits is to be creative, stand out and have fun!

The name ‘Fruits’ comes from the magazine of that name established in 1994, by photographer Shoichi Aoki, as a project to document Harajuku street fashion. Excerpts from the magazine were compiled to create the Phaidon Press books FRUiTS (2001) and FRESH FRUiTS (2005). AI-Con’s Fruits Fashion competition goes beyond strictly Japanese style to include Western Gothic and local Street Styles.

Categories:

  • Beginners award:
    Open to anyone with less than 2 years experience in Fruits Fashion.
  • Best Male:
    Just for the guys. In any Fruits inspired style.
  • Constructed:
    Hand-constructed outfits. Accessories may be purchased but the majority of the outfit must be handmade. Award goes to the constructer if different from the model. A constructor may enter more than one outfit if they have someone to model it for them in the competition.
  • Compiled:
    Bought seperately and put together to form an outfit. Does not inclued outfits wholly bought in one go as an outfit.
  • Lolita:
    Originally, Lolita was a blend of John Tenniel’s Alice in Wonderland illustraions and Victorian English mourning. Styles of Lolita vary but two constant elements are elegance and child-like innocence. Unlike Western gothic, Lolita can also feature all white outfits and pastel colours. We accept any Japanese style of Lolita, including Wa loli, Kodona and Gurololi. Men are welcome to enter.
  • Gothic:
    The Western variant of gothic. This section includes all western gothic variants such as romantic, industrial, and punk.
  • Crime:
    This year’s theme is Crime. This can be anything from police wear (Handcuffs, police caps and badges etc;) to looking like a gangsta (Pinstripes, fancy shoes and bowler caps/Fedoras.)

You may be able to enter more then one category: Entry into Beginners; Male; Constructed and may combine these with any other category.

For example, if you have hand-made your outfit for the first time and it is a Lolita style dress, you can enter Beginner and Lolita. If you were wearing a kuro loli dress you wouldn’t be able to enter both Lolita and Gothic sections, however.

Rules:

  • Contestants MUST pre-register to enter. Pre-registration close two weeks before the event. If you miss the registration date, or don’t want to be judged but do want to display your outfit, we will invite audience members to parade while the judges deliberate.
  • All contestants MUST be at the venue 30 minutes before the start of the event for a rehearsal.
  • Please follow the directions of the organizers for the duration of the event.
  • The Judges’ decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into.
  • Art theft will not be tolerated. Anyone entering someone else’s work as their own will be blacklisted and their name will be given to the other Australian convention organizers. If they win an award they will be stripped of it and legal action may be taken.