The death of Japanese fashion designer Hanai Mori .. the lady of high fashion

Hanai Mori is one of the few Japanese women to head global corporations and has pioneered women's liberation in her country.

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Yesterday, Japanese media said that Japanese designer Hanai Mori, who is considered the world's high-fashion woman (haute couture), died at her home in Tokyo at the age of 96.

Hanai Morey was nicknamed "Madame Butterfly" (Ms. Butterfly), as butterfly engravings characterized her designs and formed her distinguishing mark.

Her luxurious hand-stitched costumes were worn by many famous women, including former American first lady Nancy Reagan and the late actress Grace Kelly, wife of the Prince of Monaco.

Hanai Mori was one of the few Japanese women to head global corporations, and was thus a pioneer in the emancipation of women in her country.

Her office confirmed to Kyodo news agency the news of her death, while other Japanese media reported that her funeral was held and that the family's participation in it was limited.

During her avant-garde career she had stops in Tokyo, where she began in the post-war fashion industry for cinema, and in New York and Paris where in 1977 her brand became the first Asian fashion house to join the ranks of the very elite Syndicate of Haute Couture in Paris.

Its first collection outside Japan, which it launched in New York in 1965, revolved around the theme of the encounter between "East" and "West".

Mori paved the way for a number of Japanese fashion designers who rose to prominence, such as Yuji Yamamoto, Rei Kwakubo, Kenzo Takada (died in 2020 at the age of 81), and Issey Miyake, who died on August 5 at the age of 84.

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