Yohji Yamamoto Japanese Fashion Designer

Yohji Yamamoto Fashion Designer

Yohji Yamamoto was born in Toyko in 1943 and graduated from Keio University in 1966 with a degree in law.
He went on to study fashion at the Bunka Fashion College obtaining a degree in Fashion in 1969.
In 1981 he entered the international scene presenting in Paris, then New York in 1982.
Yamamoto’s various awards and recognitions [...]

Kenzo Takada, Japanese fashion designer

Kenzo-Takada-Japanese-Designer

Kenzo Takada born 27 February 1939 in Himeji, Japan is a Japanese fashion designer.
Kenzo’s taste for fashion developed at an early age, particularly through reading his sisters’ magazines. He shortly attended the University of Kobe, where he felt bored and eventually withdrew, against the will of his family. In 1958, he joined a fashion [...]

Issey Miyake Japanese fashion designer

Issey Miyake portrait

Born in Hiroshima, Japan, in April 1938, Issey Miyake was seven years old when the USA dropped the atomic bomb on his country.
His mother was badly burned by the bombing of Hiroshima and died four years later. But, in an ironic twist of fate, the American occupation of Japan that occurred after the [...]