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HANAE MORI

Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Sep 10, 2022
As fashion giants pass, the new guard prepares to pick up the torch
Issey Miyake and Hanae Mori have left big shoes to fill, but it's not yet clear who might take up the mantle of the next face of Japanese fashion.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Aug 18, 2022
Hanae Mori, trailblazer of Japanese fashion design, dies at 96
The fashion pioneer, known as 'Madame Butterfly' for her signature motif, became the first Japanese person to be listed as an official haute couture designer in Paris in 1977.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
May 21, 2017
Blasting the past with a new vision of future fashion
Much has been made of the recent closure of the monthly print edition of Shoichi Aoki's seminal Fruits street-style magazine, with many ready to cry that it sounds the death knell for Harajuku fashion, rather than seeing it as a simple casualty of the rise of new media.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 25, 2014
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo: young blood
Ten years have now passed since Tokyo first strutted its stuff on the international catwalk and yet the metropolis still lacks the pulling power of rivals such as Milan, New York and Paris. As if the domestic industry didn't have enough on its plate, the wheels threatened to come off the spring/summer 2015 edition of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo even before it got off the ground, with Typhoon Vongfong bearing down on the capital at the beginning of the week. Fortunately, the storm turned out to be something of a damp squib as far as Tokyo was concerned, giving those in the industry the opportunity to showcase their collections in the clear skies that followed.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 19, 2008
Are '70s landmarks savable?
Standing along Tokyo's Omote-sando Dori leading up to Meiji Shrine, the glassy, glittering, five-story Hanae Mori Building has been a landmark in the swanky Aoyama shopping district for 30 years.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Jan 8, 2008
Fashion pioneer Hanae Mori
Hanae Mori is one of the world's most celebrated fashion designers. A queen of style in France and in Japan, both of whose countries' governments have awarded her their highest cultural honors.
Japan Times
Features / JAPAN FASHION WEEK FALL/WINTER 06-07
Mar 26, 2006
Half a century of fine memories made from an impeccable 'fusion'
A stroll around Hanae Mori's retrospective, being held until April 11 at the New National Theater in Shinjuku, is for me like wandering back down memory lane: I remember admiring the floral dresses -- peonies or wisteria -- when, in a flash of brilliant color, they burst onto the catwalk for the first time in Paris in 1998.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Apr 20, 2003
All roads still lead to Paris
Mother, grandmother, createuse extraordinaire, Hanae Mori is a woman of impeccable taste, the holder of many coveted awards and Japan's -- and Asia's -- only member of the prestigious, Paris-based Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture.
BUSINESS
Dec 29, 2001
Hanae Mori to sell part of operations
Hanae Mori International Co. will sell most of its Hanae Mori-brand clothes and its licensed apparel operations to a group that will be formed by trading house Mitsui & Co. and the Rothschild group of Britain, company officials said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 25, 2001
High style for high rollers
Over the last few years, most mainstream fashion -- in London, Paris, New York or wherever -- has tended toward a softer, more casual look, and taking inspiration from various genres like streetwear has become the norm.

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