'Haute Couture' Is Foreign To The Japanese Custom

TOKYO. — Although Japanese fashion designers and fashion models are as well known here as movie stars, in the fullest sense of the term as Americans and Europeans mean it, there is no "haute couture" in Japan in Western apparel.

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Published in:Women’s Wear Daily 1958-04, Vol.96 (78), p.SII16
Main Author: Wesson, Helen
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:TOKYO. — Although Japanese fashion designers and fashion models are as well known here as movie stars, in the fullest sense of the term as Americans and Europeans mean it, there is no "haute couture" in Japan in Western apparel.
ISSN:0149-5380