Visual Kei (Also known as "visual shock") is a japanese punk inspired fashion trend. It centres mainly around music genres (as does regular punk) though more specifically Glam rock/punk
, Punk rock and Heavy metal. However some people maintain that you don't have to like the music to like the fashion but the same can be said of regular punk fashion.
Visual Kei was first seen around the 1980s just as regular punk was, with some of the pioneering visual kei bands being X Japan, Colour, D'erlanger and Buck-Tick. Although Visual Kei has been around since the 80s it didn't grow in popularity until the 1990s. Only at this time did visual Kei bands become a regular and high selling music type.Although other japanese music types remain the most popular (Mainly J-pop) the fashion industry in japan changed dramatically after the rise or Visual Kei. And even the western world has somewhat embraced the wacky fashion sense.
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