Writer

Fukai Akiko

Author and historian of European fashion. Curator emeritus at the Kyoto Costume Institute. Born in 1943. Studied at Ochanomizu University and Paris-Sorbonne University. Publications include Kimono to Japonizumu: Seiyō no me ga mita Nihon no bi-ishiki (The Kimono and Japonism: How the West Saw Japanese Aesthetics) and Fasshon no seiki: Kyōshin suru fasshon to āto (A Century of Fashion: Resonance between Fashion and Art).

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