These days, more and more brands and designers are reinventing traditional Japanese attire to make them relevant again to city folk. These refreshed styles are slowly making headway with the ...

California-born and -bred brand Kimono Modern is heading back to the traditional garment's roots with this pop-up at Nishi-Azabu's Kontacto East Studio. As the brand name suggests, they do a decidedly ...

In February, inside the midtown New York City event space Skylight at Moynihan Station, Hiromi Asai's New York Fashion Week show looked much like others happening across the city: the throb of "Uptown ...

At the end of 2021, a somewhat unusual kimono exhibition called “Kimono Visionaries” opened in New York. Over the four days of the project, 25 pieces were shown, all of them the work of Tia Oguri, a ...

The Kimono, a traditional form of Japanese clothing is an elegant creation with a long history in Japan that has seen changes in society and culture of different periods of history reflect in the ...

Chatting on mobile phones while dressed in traditional ceremonial garb, these young Japanese women embody a country of contrasts. The giggling girls - who all turn 20 this year and officially enter ...

Originally, "kimono" was the Japanese word for clothing. But in more recent years, the word has been used to refer specifically to traditional Japanese clothing. Kimonos as we know them today came ...

Kimono occupy an interesting place in the fashion world. On the one hand, their basic style has remained largely unchanged for hundreds of years, but on the other, they’re still a viable, often-worn ...

In February, inside the midtown New York City event space Skylight at Moynihan Station, Hiromi Asai’s New York Fashion Week show looked much like others happening across the city: the throb of “Uptown ...