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The Impact of the Kimono on Modern Fashion.
(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))
Byline: Okabe Masayuki
How did Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975, Plate 1), who is regarded as the founder of modernism in fashion design, feel when she first saw a Japanese kimono? (Plate 2) Vionnet was born in the French town of Aubervilliers on the shores of Lake Leman near the Swiss border not far from Geneva. In her school days there, she excelled in mathematics. However, at the end of the 19th century, items from Japanese culture would not yet have reached this kind of small country town on the frontier. I am sure that Vionnet saw the Japanese kimono for the first time after she left school at age 12 ...
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