TOKYO BABY CAFE, OMOTESANDO THEME RESTAURANT FOR BABIES, CHILDREN & PARENTS. SWEET LOLITA CAKE HAT, METAMORPHOSE LOLI DRESS.

Back from Seattle with some excellent news… I’m working on a collaboration with h.NAOTO! It may not be what you expect, so don’t get too itchy yet… but I’m certain you’ll enjoy it. Can’t wait to show you.

Thanks for your kind comments about the Toque de Tokyo TV special. One of the strangest locales we filmed for the French documentary was the Tokyo Baby Cafe in (where else?) Omotesando. As you can see, I’m miked up and ready for the director to yell Action. (My outfit details are in this post.)

Antoine de Caunes is quite the célèbre in France. He’s intelligent, funny, and a gentleman all at the same time.

Director Peter Stuart is fabulous to work with. He’s very efficient and has a strong vision for each scene, and our working styles clicked very well.

There’s a lot of waiting around on film sets. Antoine and I mugged for the cameras outside the baby cafe to pass the time.

The entire crew is wonderful. We all bonded from our first adventure on the Odaiba boat cruise.

I’m not sure what is more frightening… my spider ring from Closet Child spider ring or our black baby doll.

The Japanese baby cafe has a big blue couch for the children to bounce around in. There are video monitors everywhere, so parents can sit in a different corner and enjoy a cappuccino.

The cafe is only open to kids age 7 or under (and their guardians, natch).

My Basil Farrow is much cuter than this surrogate plastic baby.

I’m infamously not a fan of babies and small children, but it was a unique experience to visit the Tokyo Baby Cafe.

What do you think of the baby cafe concept? Coming right up: concert footage and Visual Kei-focused interviews with Aural Vampire, Black Veil Brides, Birthday Massacre and Dommin.

Japanese Word of the Day: Akachan = Baby
Song of the Day: GLAY – Kanojo no Modern

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http://www.youtube.com/takenoutofcontext Glitch

The baby cafe looks so chill for a place that happens to be full of children.(at least from the looks of the photos)
Poor plastic black baby.(I’m beginning to sorry for him. lol)

http://www.lacarmina.com lacarmina

hahah yeah… we were not very good parents to the baby >_<

Virginie

I saw it and loved it ♥

http://www.lacarmina.com lacarmina

Merci merci!

Shortie

Can’t believe you got to hang with Antoine de Caunes!! Soooo jealous

http://www.lacarmina.com lacarmina

We ad-libbed most of the humor and lines… he’s so good to work with!

Ching

h.NAOTO?! wow that is awsome! I’m jealous!! Haha ^^ Have fun <3
Noriho

Cool! BTW,I saw your video in our mutual friend,Seba’s Ameba blog,you are so cute in there,hon.=^-^=

http://www.lacarmina.com lacarmina

Thank you, dear! I love your photos <3

Stef

oooo! can’t wait to see it nonetheless!
Sam

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo~
Andrea

OH MY GOD THAT’S EPIC.

http://www.lacarmina.com lacarmina

More to come! ^^

Tiffany

OMG. So fucking jealous. That’s my dream T________T
Cell Haze @ Facebook

lol stop hatin’ on the black baby! XD

http://www.lacarmina.com lacarmina

haha we named our baby Jean-Claude (or Jean-Pierre? I forget)… and treated him with the utmost disrespect haah

Mick

that place looks weird
Maggy

HAHA <3 Ça devait être amusant !
Sakura_girls

woooo I’m thinking of making various of cake hat and sell it ^^

http://www.lacarmina.com lacarmina

Mmm mm I’d eat them hehe

Ildiko

exciting!!! ^_^
TickTock

HE IS SUCH AN INSPIRATION I look at his past designs whenever I have a brain fart making clothing sketches!

http://www.lacarmina.com lacarmina

xo

Lalaloopy

That baby is not scary. At least not compared to a toy doll with this most rediculously terrifying facial expression that when I was little I threw it in my closet. I later found it at my nan’s dare care (!!!).

Not completely related to your post, although maybe a little to your outfit and style. I was talking to my friend about what fashion style she likes/would wear, she said that she only likes people’s personal styles such as in FRUiTS magazine. She used to like Lolita and Decora, but felt constrained by all the rules in it. It made me think of how I saw random things on the internet claiming your outfits didn’t follow the “rules” or “structure” of lolita, when you appear to be wearing Lolita outfits, and I realised how much I like your style regardless of how it appears to others, considering my own taste in the fashion has been distorted by others. So I am once again reading your blog to see you rocking your style, you (and the conversation) also made me remember to not give a crap about what other people think of how you look, such as when a friend asked me why I don’t care what other people think of how I look (I think I was wearing some babydoll over long sleeved tops, other layers and three belts) and I said “because most other people are stupid”.

Also that outfit the baby is wearing is horrid, but I’d love some Paisley Gumboots.

http://www.lacarmina.com lacarmina

Thanks <3. For most people in Japan, Lolita and Decora does not have rules. People wear what they want; they mix it up, and I've posted thousands of photos of people doing just that. It's strange that this "strict guidebook" perspective is so pervasive outside Japan…

At the end of the day, my friends and I are participating in the subculture and having so much fun… :)

Lalaloopy

That was a point that my friend was making, saying that there wasn’t any “rules” in things like Lolita or Gyaru onto Westerners started wearing it.

http://www.lacarmina.com lacarmina

Yup. Here’s a perfect example from Harajuku… Decora and Lolita combined in what they’d consider a blasphemy. But I love it. :) http://www.lacarmina.com/blogpics/101013_harajukugirls4.jpg

Lalaloopy

I did hear of Deco-Loli which kind of got overtook by OTT Sweet. But it didn’t look like this. This is much cuter ^^
Lalaloopy

It makes me think how much rules there would be around something like Punk Lolita or Haade Gyaru…

I personally prefer something like a popkeixdecoraxlolita mix. Although I get annoyed how people say that if what you’re wearing doesn’t fit into the rules of lolita then you just shouldn’t call it lolita, because if someone goes to the extent of considering themselves a lolita rather than someone who dresses lolita fashion then why should they be considered not to be lolita “today” because of a couple of things in one outfit?? *sigh…*
http://www.lacarmina.com lacarmina

haha let me assure you, these types of doubts and criticisms don’t exist among the Japanese girls who actually wear the clothing and are part of the underground culture…

The clothes are styled in a relatively strict way for displays, advertisements and magazine shoots. But on the streets, personal expression rules.

http://www.RockingDollMuseum.blogspot.com Rocking Doll Museum

Can’t wait to see the Aural Vampire part, love their music!

http://www.lacarmina.com lacarmina

I took photos with them, and filmed their performance! I’m just about to upload the Black Veil Brides interview video…

Sasha

i love your…super kawaii hat!! <3 ^^
Joseph

I want that hat!
http://praxele-applefish.blogspot.com Praxele

h.Naoto, awesome. :)
I think the black baby doll is really scary.
Antoine de Caunes is a really, really funny guy.
I want to watch the documentary !

http://www.lacarmina.com lacarmina

Merci! I will post video clips soon!

http://twitter.com/TenchiTen Liv

Poor toy baby, lol why was he treated so awfully? Is it just that baby dolls are creepy in general, or..? xD I kind of think it’s cute..