JRD

Cheaper. Harajuku fashion is a lot more pedestrian anyways, I think the days of extreme styles are over. 

In general, the brands, magazines, stores for "rockish"/"gothic" vk style (not the extreme costumes) changed/vanished completely in the last 3-4 years I felt. At first everywhere stores changed towards a more colorful/"hip hop" look and since 2-3 years K-Pop Style. And that is what I felt I could looking at people especially in Harajuku. The only store l feel is left is Civarize and even that is more miss than hit lately for me (with the renewal of 109mens so many cool stores closed and change to such a bad style in my opinion..).

I know that fashion trend, but why does it has to go into the melting pot that is visual kei. I read somewhere from an article from the 90s, it's all about the costumes and atmosphere, and a shoujo magazine character coming back to life. It's just being lazy. I have a lot of offshots of bands designing their costumes from the past. Now you can throw on Uniqlo/H&M with visual kei makeup, and bam now you're a visual band. This should be branded ストリート系.