From July 18 to August 17, the Japanase-inspired mall will have Tanabata Matsuri decor, shopping deals, and cultural highlights like the matsuri game senbonbiki ...

In her transcultural collection for Expo 2025, Polish designer Joanna Hawrot reimagines the kimono as a radical expression of autonomy, queerness, and embodied storytelling. Inspired by both Japanese ...

The exhibition also includes the work of contemporary Japanese kimono designers including Hiroko Takahashi, Jotaro Saito, Modern Antenna, Tamao Shigemune, Y&SONS, Rumi Rock and Robe Japonica. The ...

The kimono as a concept The kimono is more than an historic artefact, one where ideas and methods of production were to remain constant for centuries.

In Michiko Tsui’s childhood home there was a room dedicated purely to embroidery. It was there that her mother, Fumiko Saito, ...

From the mischievous five-year-old Shin Chan, the robotic cat Doraemon and the trouble-making Ninja Hattori to the various ...

Imagine a world where differences are just another means to bring people closer together – a world where there is no ...

Every year, around the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, Obon was held in Japan to honour the spirits of their ...

A native Briton spends nearly 365 days of the year wearing kimono, even though daily use of the traditional Japanese clothing is on the decline among modern Japanese fashionistas.

Tokyo Kimono Shoes and Kimono Reborn Tokyo is transforming unwanted kimonos into everyday apparel, in a bid to reduce textile waste and preserve traditional manufacturing industries like shoemaking.

Visitors will explore futuristic "Star Trek" fashion in DACO's one-day event guided by designer Celeste Malvar-Stewart.

A great exchange rate, ChatGPT, and kimono-wearing bros have turned Kyoto into the loveliest tourist trap on earth.