Word: kimonos
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...first day of Mineko Iwasaki's life as a geisha. Wrapped in a turquoise-and-orange satin kimono, hair piled atop her head and secured with red silk bands, face covered in a wash of white makeup, the young maiko, or novice geisha, was ready?and she wasn't the only one. When Iwasaki stepped outside her home, she was greeted by applause and congratulations from a swarm of admirers who had come for a glimpse of the young geisha's debut...
...earning $500,000 a year, and her face adorned everything from posters to shopping bags. Iwasaki entertained world leaders and assorted celebrities, including Prince Charles, who scrawled his name?uninvited?on one of her favorite fans, and fashion designer Aldo Gucci, who spilled soy sauce on her kimono. The memoir details $5,000 costumes, how rice bran is good for softening skin and the difficulty of wearing okobo, or six-inch platform sandals. In his novel, Golden immersed the reader in the geisha world. Iwasaki tells about it, and there's a difference. Absent here are the lively prose...
...what he sees as the nature of the European shopper. "It's a culture that understands quality and taste," he says. "They understand my clothes more than Americans. They're hungry for it. Armani and Zegna? They don't look like me." For fall, Armani looked east with kimono shirts and Mao jackets; for spring, Lauren went Gatsby with pleated trousers and waistcoats...
...temple town of Nikko. Named for the glassy Kinu River it hugs, the old-fashioned onsen town so relaxes visitors that they wander its streets post-bath in cotton yukata robes. Hana no Yado Matsuya matsuya.co.jp) a venerable inn, features an impressive collection of dreamy Taisho-era portraits of kimono-clad beauties...
...transsexuals) to the off-key oom-pah-pahs of the prison brass band. Stubble shows through sweat-beaded pancake as the transsexuals teeter in stiletto heels on the turf. Miss Nigeria has an Afro wig, Miss England a ball gown and crown. Miss Japan is mincing in a kimono. Miss America has a jerry-rigged hula skirt that threatens to fall down. A thick papier-machE chain is snipped with giant scissors, and its two halves waft skyward, borne by rafts of balloons. It seems an unnecessarily sadistic bit of symbolism in a prison, but no one is paying much...