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Hanae Mori

Hanae Mori (Japanese: 森 英恵, Hepburn: Mori Hanae; , 8 January 1926 – 11 August 2022) was a Japanese fashion designer. She was one of only two Japanese women to have presented her collections on the runways of Paris and New York, and the first Asian woman to be admitted as an official haute couture design house by the Fédération française de la couture in France. Her fashion house, opened in Japan in 1951, grew to become a $500 million international business by the 1990s.

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• ▸Adam and Eve
• ▸Angélique Kidjo
• ▸Bed jacket

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