Designed with a modern take on traditional Japanese elements, the latest D-671 Kantou model uses a combination of pleated-like fabric and metallic faux leather. Kantou is a type of woven stripe ...

Combining lace kimonos with frilly collars, sashes and gloves, their outfits are a Japanese-Western blend which recreates the "modern girl" look from the late Taisho era (the early-mid 1920s).

issued a memorandum in 1887 proclaiming that traditional Japanese garments were unsuited to modern life. From then on, she and her entourage sported only the frilly, French-style dresses seen in a ...