Word: kyoko
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Kyoko and Mika Kano insist they never sought fame. Half sisters (they have the same father), the two former beauty queens say they led glamorous but fairly obscure lives until 1997, globe-trotting as sometime models and owners of a wholesale gem-buying business. Then the upscale women's magazine 25ans profiled them in a feature about luxurious lifestyles. A flood of reader interest led to regular columns showcasing the sisters' beauty-product and fashion picks. An empire dedicated to all things Kano has followed?exercise videos, calendars and coffee-table pictorials, featuring the two preening mostly naked before...
...average citizen, the sisters embody the impossible?and not just because of their Barbie-doll proportions. They have shirked marriage, preferring to live together, and spend half the year abroad in exotic locales like Monaco and Bermuda. They dress in Ungaro if they dress at all. Kyoko never goes out without her 24-carat diamond ring; Mika has her G-cup bras custom-made (they won't confirm or deny plastic surgery). "To Japanese, we are like anim? characters," Kyoko sighs over a five-course dinner in a private room at their favorite Tokyo restaurant. Mika nods. (By Mika...
...Which raises the question of what exactly the Kanos will do. "We'd like to take our work as lifestyle consultants global," says Kyoko. Mika nods. They're considering a cosmetics line, food products or spas. "We want to create a global brand based on our image and personal tastes," Kyoko says, smiling sweetly. "Like your Martha Stewart." Unrobed...
...TIME: You look lovely today. Mika Kano (younger sister, wearing a pale yellow linen pants suit and revealing, sequined tank top): Thank you. Kyoko Kano (older sister, in a ruffly magenta top, slinky black pants and a 24-carat diamond ring): People look to us as style leaders. But this is one more aspect in which we simply do what we please. We never follow fads; we create them. Mika: My sister has the uncanny ability to spot clothing or accessories abroad that within the year become the rage in Japan. Kyoko: It's true. Japanese women are followers. They...
...TIME: Are you all about female empowerment? Kyoko: We want to give women a hint of what it's like to think another way. Take relationships. In Japan, many women are with a man just for the sake of being with a man. They depend on the man to complete themselves. But who knows when the man will leave? This kind of behavior is unthinkable for us. We get fan letters from women saying we've changed their lives, now they're finally able to get a divorce or whatever. We derive energy from this, like radio waves...