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Just some of the Chinese indie brands featured in my classic egl items by brand board

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Misplaced Lens Cap
Xuebing Du
Three Goblin Art
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@theartofmadeline
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white moon
St tears
Akane and Alois
Just some of the Chinese indie brands featured in my classic egl items by brand board

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I would love some help with my Mori / natural kei and decora boards. If you’re an expert or just knowledgeable / passionate about these styles please reach out! They feel like slight blind spots for me as I’ve never loved these styles :3!
Rose melody is a now defunct Chinese indie brand I really miss. They were the perfect blend of classic gothic and sweet
You can find more of their items feature in my Chinese indie brand lolita board
I kinda feel two ways about this. On one hand, they had pretty solid workmanship as far as I recall, but on the other hand... they weren't really invoating in the motif department. For some background for those who weren't there.... Rose melody was pretty popular when I was a young lolita. Back then, the english-speaking lolita community was still pretty young (as in a lot of people in the community were young, but also the community was still not that established). Initially it was so hard to get lolita items that a lot of people were making their own versions of things, and for a few years the community had a very lose stance on counterfit items. Because of this, and because things like lolibrary didn't even exist yet, a lot of what Rose Melody made that is of questionable origionality flies under the radar. The print in the lower right corner is not by Rose Melody. This print is by the also defunct Korean brand Strawberry on the Shortcake. Rose Melody stole their artwork and make replicas with it. The real SotS print is so rare, the only photos I have are these tiny ones.
The swans with the brand name under them come from the metamorphose logo. Other things in that print are likely stock graphics, but the choice to use the exact meta swans specifically in a border print like this when meta had already done border embroidery pieces with those swans is a choice.
Toe shoes in screen print or embroidery as a motif was also well established by ST/ET/ETC at this point
The chandelier series was less a direct copy and more an inspired-by... this screen print AP dress was popular at the time, but the screen print-on-velvet AP was doing was notoriously hard to do, so when people tried to copy thigns like this, they frquently did embroidery.
This one generally isn't seen as particularly problematic, it's just kind of an example to show how pretty much everything in Rose Melody's art catalolg is either directly stolen, or remaking existing things with likely stock embroidery graphics.
And yeah, we can say there is nothing origional in lolita. However, this was early enough on in prints that a lot of motifs we see now hadn't been done yet, so it's likely that it was intentional. However, it also was culturally normal in lolita at that time as well.
Rose Melody is one of those brands that is very much a product of a very specific niche that existed in lolita in a specific time. As long as there was a high demand for this look and low availability, they did pretty well with replicas and look-alike designs. But once more competition entered the market and the English-Speaking lolita community shifted more towards orig work and OTT sweet prints, they lost popularity in that market. I think if they had worked with an artist to actually design their own works, they could have potentially held on longer (maybe they didn't want to, I don't actually know why they closed), but I think they are one of those brands that is better in nostalgia than they might be if they existed today.
I had quite a few of their things way back in the day and was really a fan of them. I wish I’d held onto them because they’re semi difficult to find now. I personally liked their style and interpretation more than a lot of the pieces they were trying to emulate. I do wish they’d done more original stuff or even just focused on decent quality solids, I loved their visual style but I do think it not being the trend at the time contributed a lot to their closing as well.
Love this input tho! I need a tag for awesome info / insights like this 😍
Here’s some beautiful gothic coords from Chinese indie brands in the 2010s.
Rose melody
Surface spell
Amastacia
Pinky ever after featured in my fairy kei items board I have so much nostalgia for this brand. It seemed quite popular when I was newer to j-fashion

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Worked a bit on my Mori Kei and natural kei boards & Mori / natural kei items board
Mori was never a style I had the most interest in but seeing these wonder rocket adverts really resonated with me. The sort of gyaru influence in the hair and makeup styling is such a cute and unique spin. What are / were you all’s favorite Mori, Dolly kei, or natural kei brands?
Rose melody is a now defunct Chinese indie brand I really miss. They were the perfect blend of classic gothic and sweet
You can find more of their items feature in my Chinese indie brand lolita board
I own the random refs / eglfashionrefs Pinterest account which aims to catalogue and provide high quality references for all j fashion styles
This account previously had two other owners however the account has been fully given to @frederickkittens (me) due to Jay and Candy both leaving the lolita community for good in 2025. And Jay giving me the account fully this year. I no longer have any contact with or affiliation with them unfortunately.
I’ve been the primary owner of this account for about a year now but have recently put a lot more effort in to organizing and using the account!
One thing I wanted to do was open a connected account here due to some difficulty of contact there. I’ve had people try to ask questions or request sections and me not seen for months… so this will be the main hub now
On to the main topic, I’ll be managing and taking requests for what people want to see from that account. So if you want to see Halloween coords in x style just let me know, or if you want me to work on a specific pre existing board let me know