She has made the wedding parade dress for Empress Masako and garments that appeared in hundreds of Japanese films.
Hanae Mori became one of the great Japanese fashion designers and the first from the country to be listed as an official "haute couture" designer in Paris.
1977, according to the Kyodo news agency.
She opened her own shop in Ginza, Tokyo in the 1950s, after studying Japanese literature at a Tokyo university and at a local tailoring school.
Described as Japan's premier
But as early as 1966, when she showed a collection including trousers for women in New York, she was described as Japan's foremost designer.
Despite her position, she had not yet gathered the courage to show off her trousers at home.
- But maybe after this, but it is the United States that is the country of pants, she then told The New York Times.
In 1989 she was awarded the French Legion of Honor by then French President François Mitterrand, and the year before the Medal of Honor by the Japanese government.
Combined East and West
Over the decades, her garments were shown at famous fashion fairs, she had numerous stores in Japan, and partially ran her business from New York and Paris.
The business grew and also included restaurants, newspapers and its own shopping building in Tokyo.
- Fashion is a simple way to communicate.
People everywhere understand that, she said in a 1988 interview with the Los Angeles Times.
She retired in 2004. Her works often combined Eastern motifs with Western silhouettes.
However, her perfume brand, which also bears her name, has continued to live on.
Hanae Mori was born in Mukaichi to fashion-conscious parents.
- We were the only ones in my hometown who dressed like in the West.
It was embarrassing for me as a kid to be different, but I guess people were pretty jealous too, she said in a 1996 AP interview.
Hanae Mori died at her home in Tokyo on August 11.