Once a famous red-light district, the Tokyo ward of Taito is now a quaint and tranquil area, less heavily frequented by ...

The Asian Art Museum’s Kimono Refashioned demonstrates the kimono’s enduring impact on fashion since the 19th century through luxurious Japanese kimonos, opulent Western gowns, and haute ...

Asian Art Museum in San Francisco explores how the Japanese kimono has inspired designers in the East and the West, and influenced the global fashion scene for the last 150 years.

A teenage artist has gone viral after she created a kimono made from cut-up men’s boxer shorts and shirts in honour of her heritage. Maya Caulfield, 18, is half Scottish and Japanese and hand ...

Edmund de Waal’s memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes, is an artist’s attempt to understand the objects he owns, creates, and inherits. De Waal (British, 1964) is a trained potter who has been ...

For almost six decades it has been considered uncomfortable, prohibitively expensive and horribly old-fashioned, but the male kimono is staging a revival in Japan. The country's top weekly ...

In “Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection”—an exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art that runs through Feb. 20, 2023—Monika Bincsik, associate curator of Japanese ...

Tokiya Japan also features art created by special-needs students from Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Miyajima encourages anyone to try a kimono, clarifying that it is for everyone, regardless of gender ...

KUMAMOTO, Japan (Jan. 26, 2011 -- U.S. military members preparing for Yama Sakura 59 had the opportunity to dress in traditional Japanese kimonos as part of a cultural exchange Jan. 25 in Kumamoto ...