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Speaking of the accessories in our daily lives, she offers a variety of fun and
useful items. Lightweight, compact folding umbrellas that are now common,
bags with lots of storage pockets, set of handkerchief and Japanese holding
fan, and so on - functional, yet stylish accessories have made people’s lives
more enjoyable and colorful ones.
The symbol of butterfly has long been flying around the world in various
forms of items, such as scarves and perfume bottles.
She has also designed uniforms for JAL flight attendants, banks and other
companies, and school uniforms for junior and senior high school students.
Successfully expressing clean image of the Japanese, she also took charge of
designing the official uniforms of the Japanese Delegation at the Summer
Olympics in Barcelona. Empress Masako's robe décolleté designed by Hanae
Mori for the marriage of then Crown Prince in 1993 is widely known, together
with the bride’s shining smile.
In addition to the daily clothing, she had also created countless costumes for
films and performances.
In the 1950s and e

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Hanae Mori, New York, 1987. Susan Wood/Getty Images

Born in 1926 in Mukaichi, Shimane Prefecture, Mori was the daughter of stylish parents, a doctor (who hoped his daughter would follow him into the profession) and a homemaker. “We were the only ones in my hometown who dressed Western-style. It was embarrassing for me as a child to be different, but I guess we were rather envied, too,” she told the AP in 1996. In occupied Japan she read Gone With the Wind and at some point observed the wives of the Allies altering their Western clothes for fit. Post-war, Mori completed a degree in Japanese literature at Tokyo Women’s Christian University, then married the scion of a textile manufacturer, the “liberated (in her words) Kenzo Mori. “I was a very nice housewife for one month, but I did not like to be at home. I wanted to be working, so I ask my husband—he’s Japanese, very strong but very nice—and we discussed it for a month. Then I went to designing school in Tokyo.”

In 1951 she started working over a noodle shop with two assistants and three used sewing machines. About four ye

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The first Asian designer to become a member of the Paris haute couture syndicate, Hanae Mori occupied a singular position at the forefront of the global fashion industry over the course of her storied five-decade career. Through artistic and entrepreneurial pursuits, Mori bridged the Japanese and Western fashion worlds with grace and ambition, as reflected in designs that balance Euro-American trends with Japanese-inspired aesthetics.

A Dressmaker in Postwar Japan

Mori was born in 1926 into an affluent family in Shimane, Japan, and spent her formative years in Tokyo. Amid harsh living conditions and air raids during World War II, she studied literature at the Tokyo Woman’s Christian University while working in an arsenal for the war effort. After the war she married Ken Mori, the son of a textile manufacturer, who later became her business partner.

Unmotivated by the prospect of spending the rest of her life as a homemaker, Mori enrolled in Dressmaker Gakuin, one of Japan’s oldest vocational schools specializing in Western-style dressmaking. In 1951, spurred by the rising deman