Franklin & Marshall College

Gabby Jiayin She: Alice Drum Award Winner

Gabby Jiayin She, a junior Art major who received the Alice Drum Award in 2009, will present her work at the Spring Research Fair From Rebel Heroines of New York to Living Dolls of Tokyo: The Power of Visual Culture. Last summer she studied young womens street fashion in Tokyo, where young women march down the street in heavy lace pettiskirts, extravagant make-up and curly blonde wigs. She focuses how Western visual culture has shaped Japanese youth culture. This transnational interest shaped her summer in other ways, as she ended the summer working as an intern with Anna Sui in New York City. She focuses on who Western visual culture has shaped Japanese youth culture. Her research thus captures both the rock-and-roll coolness of downtown New York and the Japanese obsession with living Victorian dolls on the streets.