Through May 5: Golden Week in Chichibu offers floral color, festive activities and fresh air for family outings in sun or light rain.
The Week is a podcast for busy people who want to keep abreast of views from Japan on the latest in geopolitics, people, and new frontiers...
Sheila Cliffe is a professor emerita at Jumonji Gakuen Women's University in Japan. A kimono researcher, author and stylist in Tokyo, she has lectured at conferences.
Those attending the hybrid event were rewarded with fresh ideas, colors and cultural contexts from the professional designers and participants in Indonesia and Japan.
Sheila shares great ideas for Christmas and the New Year, when kimono that show off the seasonal themes and shiny threads that sparkle especially brightly.
Here’s an invitation to create your own style from an expert who knows the kimono-related rules but is not bound by them, ensuring that the next...
The event celebrated ecology through reusing old kimono, diversity in the types of kimono and varieties of models, and equality by highlighting young people without parents...
Turning the costume of past eras into modern and now, young women increasingly fall in love with kimono as fashion, they are re-introducing it to their...
Designing bright, outrageously colored garments, Narutoshi Ishikawa says that wearing kimono is an amplifier for your personality. What does it take to make kimono popular in...
“It’s fashion, it’s changing. It’s clothing that makes sense, can be fun, has different rules for formal occasions and different rules for casual occasions.” ー Stasia...
If you’ve ever wondered whether kimono have always been the same, who wore what, or how the gorgeous fabrics were made, this is a chance not...
Influenced by one of Sheila Cliffe’s books, Chihoko began to wear a lot of hats and accessories that she wasn’t using before, and she found that...
