It was New Year's Day 1965, he was 25 years old and had just landed from
Cambodia
, the liner that connected Marseille from Yokohama in a month.
While waiting for his train to Paris, he decided to spend the time in a nightclub, to end up going to the station in extremis - the anecdote says a lot about this inveterate night owl.
“Finally, I arrived late at night at the Gare de Lyon.
It was cold, everything was dark and empty.
Paris did not look at all like what I had seen in the films
, he said in our columns in 2015.
I got in a taxi and, suddenly, Notre-Dame was there, within reach, all lit up, it was fabulous. ”
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The young Japanese man, born in 1939 in Himeji, trained at Bunka Fashion College (prestigious sewing school in Tokyo), made every fashion lover's dream come true by settling in the City of Light.
“I immediately had the chance to attend the fashion shows of Pierre Cardin, Christian Dior, Chanel, Pierre Balmain… Everything was so
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