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...Japan, by contrast, the American look has taken the country by storm. While Oscar de la Renta showed his new collection at the Hotel Okura last week, Calvin Klein's Japanese-made line was selling like sushi at Isetan department store, Tokyo's Bloomingdale's. Kashiyama, one of Japan's biggest garment manufacturers, uses a computer system to adapt John Meyer designs to the Japanese figure. Other companies have signed about a hundred contracts with American firms. American-style clothes rang up some $300 million in sales to the Japanese last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Chic In Fashion | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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