Jun Ashida, founder of the eponymous brand and a former personal designer for Empress Michiko, died Saturday of pneumonia at his home in Tokyo. He was 88.
The youngest of eight children in a doctor’s family, Ashida decided to become a fashion designer after experiencing culture shock when he saw the clothes of one of his elder brothers and his wife when they returned from the United States before World War II.
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