Tokyo Fashion Show 2009
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Tokyo Fashion Show 2009
Archive for the ‘Fashion’ Category
Kimono
Monday, February 11th, 2008The word kimono means things to wear. Kimonos is the national costume of Japan with a very long history. Kimonos are usually t-shaped with straight robes fall to the ankle with wide full length sleeves and a collar wrapping around the body with left over the right side. Kimonos are worn with traditional footwear geta and split-toe socks. Kimonos are usually worn by women but in certain sports such as sumo wrestling, men are often seen in kimonos when they appear in the public.
Yamamoto Yohji
Monday, January 28th, 2008Yamamoto Yohji is an international Japanese fashion designer based out of Paris, Japan, and New York. Born in Tokyo 1943 and graduated from Keio University and Bunka Fashion College. He started designing women’s clothing in 1970 and showed his first collection in Tokyo in 1977. His charismatic style received high praise and finally achieved recognition after showing his collection in Paris in 1983. Yamamoto is the only Japanese fashion designer to have been awarded the French Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres and also the winner of the Mainichi Fashion Grand Prize in 1986.
