Each bookstore will act as a concierge, recommending "the book you should read right now" to FASHION HEADLINE readers. Every Saturday, we will introduce books selected by Shelf, a Harajuku bookstore specializing in foreign books (3-7-4 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo).



■ "Hairdos Of Defiance" by Ed Templeton

This book is a collection of portraits of punk rock hairstyles taken by photographer and skater Ed Templeton over 20 years in America and Europe, from Disneyland to Detroit, Spokane to Scotland. It also includes Templeton's essay, "On Mohawks." An exhibition of his work was held at Roberts Projects, an art gallery in Los Angeles, in the spring of 2018.

The spiky, fluorescent pink hair exploding while balancing precariously on a young girl's head, the eyes painted black in the shape of an Egyptian goddess, the thin neck strangled by a black leather collar adorned with metal spikes, the breasts exposed through a torn T-shirt—it had the same shocking effect on a family walking down London's King's Road in 1977 as it did on explorers encountering the Pawnee Indians in 1954, as if they were seeing something exotic and strange. Having a punk hairstyle was a way to spit in the eyes of polite society, to step away from popular fashion trends and rebel. It was a symbol of disobedience, a hairstyle of rebellion—until it wasn't. (From Ed Templeton's "On Mohawks")