Word: kimonoed
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...Evolve” traced how clothing has helped Koreans and Korean Americans to establish their identity. Models wearing traditional gowns with wide, high-waist skirts and cropped jackets were the first to cross the catwalk. The gowns are called hanboks and, like their Japanese counterpart, the kimono, they uniquely identify a nation...
...there because her music has remained interesting and memorable. “Like a Virgin” might not work so well if Madonna were to release it today, but it’s ludicrous to argue that her success is due to a cone bra, cowboy hat or kimono...
...jawed face with its little tuft of beard in profile, the hand holding a cyclamen, against a madly spiraling background of fruit-jelly abstract forms. The dandified, loony energy of Feneon's argot-filled writing seems impacted into that background, even though its source is a Japanese kimono pattern. My, you think, those guys must have had some laughs together. Which they...
...Utada enjoys adding traditional Ja-panese touches to her image. Says Utada: "In my most recent artist photo shoot, I said, 'I want to wear a Japanese summer kimono.' At first everyone was like, 'Are you sure?' Because people don't really wear it for artist photos. I've never really seen a musician wearing it." But she did it anyway. She's also taken to wearing traditional Japanese wooden sandals, or geta, with blue jeans...
...What Koizumi lacked was the vital player in every politician's entourage: there was no Mrs. Koizumi. In 1977, the inner circle presented him with dozens of photos of potential spouses, which he stacked high on his parliamentary office desk. The one that caught his eye was of a kimono-clad beauty, a 21-year-old university student named Kayoko Miyamoto. Her family was from Kamakura, an upper-class town of bamboo-shaded temples and hydrangea gardens, not far from Yokosuka, in Koizumi's legislative district. Her grandfather had founded a large pharmaceutical company, and she grew...