Director, Chief Curator

Kyoto Costume Institute

7, Shinchijo Goshonoichi
Nakamachi
Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8862

TEL: (075) 321-8011
FAX: (075) 321-9219
HOME: (03) 3703-0509
EMAIL: coucou@ibm.net

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese, French

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• ART, ART HISTORY, LITERATURE AND PERFORMING ARTS
  arts exchange; textiles
• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  fashion industry
• HISTORY
  history of fashion
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  fashion

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Professor, University of Shizuoka for Culture and Art, 2000-present; Chief Curator, Kyoto Costume Institute, 1985-present; Professor, Kobe Women's University, 1994-2000; Visiting Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1994-1997; Professor, Kobe Women's University, 1994-present

IN US: repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Fashion in Painting (Shogakukan, 1999); Japonism in Fashion (Heibonsha, 1994); Seeing through the 20th Century Fashion (Bunka, 1994); Paris Collection (Kodansha, 1993); Fashion Key Words (Bunka, 1993).