2014 / Nisei Week fashion event to feature kimono and contemporary design with Okinawan tradition, July 27
Forwarded for the Nisei Week Foundation
Nisei Week Fashion Event “Kimono Couture”
Sunday, July 27, 2014, 3:00pm
Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo
General seating: $50
This year, the 2014 Nisei Week Fashion Event will feature kimono stylist and costume designer, Sueko Oshimoto of Suehiro Kimono in Los Angeles.
Sueko’s talents range from costume designer for Miss Japan USA 2011, stylist for numerous high fashion photos for magazines and kimono shows, and recently, kimono stylist for the “Wolverine” movie with Hugh Jackman and the newly released Sean Paul music video.
Sueko and Suehiro Kimono provide the best in Japanese elegance with services that include photographic portraits in kimono for all occasions to instructional classes in the art of dressing in kimono. http://suehiro-kimono.com/
Kanna Yamauchi, fashion designer from Okinawa, Japan, will share her beautiful Yokang fashions showing the traditional Okinawam hand dyed technique known as bingata.
Yokang has wowed audiences worldwide and is now getting the attention of the fashion industry here in the U.S.
Presently, Yokang is available at the very fashionable H. Lorenzo boutique in West Hollywood. http://en.yokang.jp/
This 2014 Nisei Week event will have the feel of a “fashion week” show with a video look back at Nisei Week court fashion and images of Little Tokyo over the years.
We will also feature a kimono demonstration in the traditional style and then deconstruct it and present it in a very contemporary way, as the youth of Japan are now doing.
The show will be informative, theatrical and entertaining fun. We want to awe and inspire the audience with the allure and beauty of kimono and the vivacious, colorful elegance of Yokang and Kanna Yamauchi’s designs.
Join us for an afternoon of fun, fashion and community spirit in support of the Nisei Week Japanese Festival at the Japanese American National Museum on Sunday, July 27 at 3:00 pm.
General seating is $50. There will be a sake tasting ‘happy hour’ immediately following the show. For information and tickets, call Nisei Week Foundation at (213) 687-7193 or email office@niseiweek.org
