HANAE MORI VS HANAE MORI BUTTERFLY MOVIE

On her return to Japan, her colouring brightened, and she synthesised a bolder, fusion mode, western in cut, eastern in fabric and pattern, suggesting “the atmosphere of a kimono” without its restrictions.Ī model presenting a wedding dress from Hanae Mori’s autumn-winter haute couture collection in Paris, 2000. Japanese women were not expected to stand out: subtlety, reticence, what Mori called “refined hiding”, were their ideals. She prospered so much that she took an unusual approach to studying French couture in 1960, she travelled to Paris to meet and order outfits from designers she respected, including Hubert de Givenchy and Coco Chanel – who shocked Mori by advising her that she should wear orange to make an entrance. She advised women on their difficult transition to western wardrobes, which made them uncomfortable by exposing more than necks and hands, mystified by alien accessories and unable to kneel on the matted floor of a chairless home. Mori quickly came to represent fashion in Japan, introducing the latest trends in a newsletter that developed into a magazine, Ryuko Tsushin. At the same time, with her husband, Ken Mori – an executive from a textile manufacturing family – acting as manager, she expanded along with the national economy from makeshift workshop to boutiques.

HANAE MORI VS HANAE MORI BUTTERFLY MOVIE

The area had a big new cinema attracting film industry professionals first a producer asked her to supply clothing items, then to design costumes for films – she worked on hundreds over a decade – and she also styled movie stars’ own wardrobes. Mori, with a couple of assistants and three secondhand sewing machines, created on-spec and made-to-order fashionable western women’s clothes for both cultures. The district had been wiped out during the second world war except for its railway station, around which, during the US occupation, grew a vast black market and entertainment economy for Americans and Japanese people.

She started a small atelier above a noodle bar in Shinjuku, Tokyo, in 1951.

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