Japanese designer Hanae Mori, recognized worldwide as a member of the elite of haute couture, died on August 11 at her home in Tokyo at the age of 96, several major Japanese media announced on Thursday August 18.
Hanae Mori was nicknamed "
Madame Butterfly
" for the butterfly designs that had made her trademark.
Over the decades, his luxurious handmade creations have been worn by Nancy Reagan, Grace Kelly and many other personalities.
Hanae Mori was one of the few Japanese women at the head of an international company, and thus remained a pioneer of the emancipation of women in her country.
His death was confirmed by his office to the Kyodo news agency, while other Japanese media reported that his funeral had already been held privately.
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Her avant-garde career took her from Tokyo - where she began in the post-war period by making costumes for the cinema - to New York and Paris where, in 1977, her brand became the first house of Asia to join the ranks of the very select Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris.
His first collection abroad - in New York in 1965 - celebrated the theme of the encounter between "
East
" and "
West ".
".
The other big names in Japanese fashion like Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, Kenzo Takada (died in 2020 at age 81) or even Issey Miyake (died August 5 at age 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 Parisian workshop in 2004 after her last show in the French capital, shops bearing her name still exist. in Japan and its fragrances continue to be sold worldwide.
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