Hipster Queens Series: Mai Ueda

"Queens" as in "royalty". I won't cover the hipster gay scene. It died in 1996 anyway.

Emmy from Sweden lowered the hipster quotient so much that I wanted to offset her real quick with Mai from Japan.



She is, admittedly, very cute (even more so in person (and even more so when dancing)).


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She designed a bag for French fashion house Celine. See that gold plastic bag? It's not plastic but baby kangaroo skin dipped in gold silicone. Or something. I hope the baby kangaroo was still alive: the more cruel, the more exclusive.

She's also a performance artist "whose work explores sensuality, digital pop culture, internet and traveling", which would seriously detract from her awesomeness, if it didn't produce pictures like these:

But my favorite picture is this one:

In my next post, I'll unleash the power of NEEN. Just you wait.