Hanae Mori, once Japan’s most famed designer, has died.
, and Issey Miyake were all students of design, they used to visit me frequently at my studio,” Mori said in a 1982 interview.
“It was necessary for Mrs. Mori…to travel abroad to win recognition for her work. This was also true of designers who followed her, including Issey Miyake and Kansai Yamamoto,” noted the. But throughout her career Mori was as focused on influencing how Japanese women dressed as she was on exporting Japanese fashion abroad. “Her idea was to create something original of herself and of Japan,” her husband once said.
In 1951 she started working over a noodle shop with two assistants and three used sewing machines. About four years later her short-skirted designs were discovered in a shop window by a bunch of businessmen. The next day, one of them, a director, came back and asked her to create costumes, and for about five years Mori, as The Newsweek Service put it, “was the Edith Head of the Japanese film industry.
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