Gwen Stefani has been a music and style icon since No Doubt, but she's occasionally ruffled feathers with looks that have ...

By 2011, the Harajuku Lovers brand had evolved yet again by introducing Harajuku Mini at Target. "Harajuku Mini is a dream come true. I’ve always wanted to do a cool children’s fashion line ...

Harajuku is a combination of many different aesthetics which is why it’s such a versatile style. It combines many elements of fashion from all sides of the world, East to West.

Stefani wore a bindi to the Billboard Music Awards in 1997. Vinnie Zuffante/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Criticism of cultural appropriation has long preceded the singer's "Harajuku Girls" era.

Angel. Music. Baby. To promote her album, Stefani hired four women dubbed the Harajuku Girls. All four women, Maya Chino, Jennifer Kita, Rino Nakasone, and Mayuko Kitayama, were of Japanese descent.

Later, upon traveling to see the Harajuku culture herself, she added: “I said, ‘My God, I’m Japanese and I didn’t know it.” When the comment seemed to give the reporter pause, Stefani ...

In 2005, Stefani launched her so-called Harajuku era while walking the red carpet at that year’s Grammy Awards with a quartet of “Harajuku girls,” named for the fashion-forward Tokyo ...

Stefani told an Asian-American interviewer that she’d had an epiphany while visiting Tokyo’s Harajuku district: ‘My God, I’m Japanese and I didn’t know it.’ ...