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Japan

Designer Spotlight: Hanae Mori

January 08, 2019

After graduating with a degree in Japanese Literature from Tokyo’s Woman’s Christian University, Hanae Mori married her husband Ken Mori, whose family owned a textile mill. She began taking classes at a dressmaking school, honing her skills. In 1951, at the age of 26 and shortly after delivering her first child, Mori opened her fashion house.