Mori, Hanae (1926-)

Person

Dates

Existence: 1926-

Biography

Hanae Mori was born in Japan in 1926. She enrolled in dressmaking school where she developed the skills to establish her first shop in Tokyo in 1951. Her career began as a designer of film costumes in Japan and she eventually entered the American market where her business began its steady growth. Mori is known as Japan's first internationally known designer and the first Asian woman to be admitted as an official haute couture design house.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

1993 May, 1993

folder

Identifier: SC.214.1.1.390

Scope and Contents

This folder contains a column on jackets and black and white photos of jackets, with press releases attached, by Hanae Mori, Joseph Abboud and Bill Blass.

Dates: 1993

Found in: Special Collections and FIT Archive / Eleanor Lambert collection, 1942-2003 / Eleanor Lambert Columns and Column Records / Eleanor Lambert Columns

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