Japanese designer Hanae Mori, recognized worldwide as a member of the haute couture elite, died on August 11 at her home in Tokyo at the age of 96, several major Japanese media announced Thursday.
Hanae Mori was nicknamed “Madame Butterfly” for the butterfly designs that had made her her trademark. Over the decades, Nancy Reagan, Grace Kelly and many others have worn her lavish handcrafted creations.
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His death was confirmed by his office to the Kyodo news agency, while other Japanese media reported that his funeral had already been held in private.
Her avant-garde career took her from Tokyo (where she had started post-war making costumes for the cinema) to New York and Paris where, in 1977, her brand became the first house in Asia to join the ranks of the highly select Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris.
His first collection abroad (in New York in 1965) celebrated the theme of the meeting between “East” and “West”.
The other great names of Japanese fashion such as Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, Kenzo Takada (died in 2020 at the age of 81) or even Issey Miyake (died on August 5 at the age of 84) followed in his footsteps.
Despite the dismantling of Hanae Mori’s business empire in the early 2000s in the face of financial difficulties and the closure of her Paris atelier in 2004 following her last show in the French capital, there are still stores bearing her name in Japan and her fragrances still exist. be sold all over the world.
Source: BFM TV
