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"kimono" Definitions
  1. a traditional Japanese piece of clothing like a long loose dress with wide sleeves (= parts covering the arms), worn on formal occasions; a dressing gown or robe in this style

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"Kim" is already part of "kimono," and kimono is a ... type of clothing.
I don't think most women who wear kimono care to match their watch to their kimono.
We did some digging and discovered Kim isn't the only one to use the garment name in business -- there's Komono Sunglasses, Kimono Lash, Kimono Restaurant and Kimono Condoms -- just to name a few.
"World, this is KIMONO, a traditional Japanese garment," one person tweeted with an image of an actual kimono.
Kimono Refashioned asks what it is about the kimono that has captivated designers worldwide, for well over a century.
No Kimono: After objections from Japan, Kim Kardashian West announced she would change the name of her shapewear line from Kimono.
Near Kenrokuen garden, the Kaga Yuzen Kimono Center is the place to learn about the local variety of kimono dyeing called Kaga Yuzen.
"We think that the names for 'Kimono' are the asset shared with all humanity who love Kimono and its culture therefore they should not be monopolized," Kadokawa's letter said.
"We think that the names for 'Kimono' are the asset shared with all humanity who love Kimono and its culture therefore they should not be monopolized," wrote Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa.
A search of the United States' Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) appears to confirm this — there are several live entries for "Kimono", all tied to Kardashian West's new Kimono Intimates brand.
Mr & Mrs Right Women's Cotton Kimono Robe, $21.99; amazon.
Chain store kimono on, and texts sent to the dealer.
A traditional kimono and a nod to a new tradition.
A figure in a translucent kimono coyly holds a fan.
Ms. Mori recommended something called a "kimono experience and photo shoot," wherein the patron pays for elaborate kimono dress (in one of several styles: oiran, maiko or geisha), as well as hair and makeup.
A kimono goes real well with a glass of pink wine.
Many mocked the jingoistic sentiment expressed by the "anti-kimono" guards.
Taking two drags, she walked toward him, slowly undoing her kimono.
But, Kim never intended to produce the traditional Japanese Kimono garments.
As we reported ... her Kimono name only applied to her business.
Juliette Binoche, who plays a cyberneticist of questionable ethics, wears a kimono.
Despite the heat, he wears a camouflaged kimono and thick black pants.
I can't wait to see what the kimono will morph into next.
He wore a kimono top she'd bought on a trip to Japan.
Kimono is more comfortable than normal clothes for me, especially in summer.
For the tea ceremony, she dresses me in a gorgeous blue kimono.
"I'm patriotic and didn't wear a kimono," he was quoted as saying.
Kimono traces the roots of its subject back to Japan's Heian period (463–246) and notes that, by the Momoyama era (16030–21940), the recognizable form and character of the kimono as it is known today had emerged.
In the early 2000s, he had a short-lived men's wear line called Uncle Kimono, and made a documentary, "Flipping Uncle Kimono," about a fashion show he planned to stage in Milan using judo fighters instead of models.
Lying on the bed in an open silk kimono, she looks incredibly young.
Anyone else mad that Kim K really has a new brand called 'Kimono'????
The reality star has yet to respond to the latest controversy over Kimono.
It's a Kimergency, y'all: Kim Kardashian has named a line of shapewear Kimono.
In February it bought the web-scraping firm Kimono for an undisclosed amount.
In September, Kim Kardashian West released her solutionwear line, SKIMS, previously named Kimono.
After all, your rebellion started at home by ending the family's kimono business.
An international incident over Ms. Kardashian West's Kimono trademark ends ... or does it?
It's a kimono jacket, designed by Eileen Fisher, who has an installation here.
Their mother is a flirt, indulging naked lunches in her too-loose kimono.
I put on a lavender jumpsuit, black sheer kimono, and big pearly hoops.
It wasn't easy, her body said, to play a cello in a kimono.
As for the name ... Kimono is a wide-sleeved robe customary in Japan.
Manon is wearing an outrageous kimono and changes into an equally outrageous sequined number.
I ended up in a kimono and swimming trunks on King's Road burning money.
I was fascinated by how beautiful and feminine the kimono and her movements were.
But so too does the handwritten sign in the window: KIMONO PØLSE, 25 kr.
In the East — specifically, in Japan — the kimono may be a similar, inestimable costume.
You don't need to be a geisha to wear a kimono or Geta shoes.
Following scrutiny over Kimono, Kardashian West apologized and later changed the name to SKIMS. 
No one knows, because Facebook won't open its kimono and show anyone its data.
"The mark consists of the word 'KIMONO' in a stylized font," says Business Insider.
No. So if I bumped into you in Manhattan, you'd be wearing a kimono?
The image from this one ["British Grasses" kimono] comes from botanical photographer Roger Phillips.
Kimono shops catered to their style needs and even sent sales reps to customers' homes.
Kim Kardashian West is changing the name of her Kimono shapewear after cultural appropriation backlash.
He wore an eye-catching floor-length yellow gown and a kimono with puffed sleeves.
Airbnb already allows hosts to sell "experiences" (think kimono-dressing ceremonies or vintage-photography classes).
Then I eat an early dinner before doing my makeup and putting on my kimono.
"Kimono is my take on shapewear and solutions for women that actually work," she wrote.
The line was initially called KIMONO when Kardashian West announced the plan back in June.
Kimono also addressed the ills of South Africa's apartheid regime through his song 'Kill Apartheid.
Kim Kardashian West angered many when she attempted to name her shapewear brand "Kimono Solutionwear."
Everyone will be free to wear the multi-colored kimono of his or her dreams.
He's here to open up the kimono and tell the truth and all that stuff.
"Finally, the kimono is being opened a little," said Jan Harzan, the director of Mufon.
It was a cheongsam, not a kimono, that a white girl wore to her prom.
Vintage kimono fabrics are subtly integrated into the designs, some with intricate origami-style adornments.
Before the ceremony began, Ayako changed her kimono into a more formal Shinto-style robe.
He added that he had done so wearing a satin kimono belonging to his wife.
The former Miss Japan opted to compete in a printed kimono paired with a headdress.
He was wearing a kimono, boxer shorts with Margaritas printed on them, and not much else.
"The kimono is regarded around the world as a distinct part of our culture," he said.
"She came in with huge sunglasses and this kimono," she said of Graham, with fond laughter.
If she isn't seated in Sies Marjan, she's taking in the scene wearing a Gucci kimono.
He also wore a yukata, a casual summer kimono, to dinner with the Japanese Prime Minister.
Tan-Jones, regal in a flowing red kimono, brings out their cauldron: a small, transparent teapot.
Kimono Refashioned continues at the Asian Art Museum (200 Larkin Street, San Francisco) through May 5.
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Nigerian reggae singer Ras Kimono has died aged 60, after a short illness.
There was a young woman in a kimono outside, smiling and enticing passersby into the restaurant.
Kardashian West changed the name of her shapewear line from "Kimono" to "SKIMS" after facing backlash.
The full skirt was made from the weighty brocade cloth typically used for a kimono obi.
I love this Japanese beautiful traditional costume and it's sad that someone calls an underwear 'kimono.
Suzu transforms a kimono into a jumpsuit; she makes the most of her family's meager rations.
"One bouquet from a wedding will get you a scarf and a kimono," Ms. Piazza said.
According to docs obtained by TMZ, Kim's company -- Kimono Intimates -- had trademarked Solutionwear back in April.
Kimono: The Art and Evolution of Japanese Fashion (Thames & Hudson), a new book principally written and edited by Anna Jackson, offers an informative look at just what makes the kimono such a unique and iconic creation among the world's many ethnic or national-cultural forms of dress.
Scout, 25, matched her mother's colorful looks in a patterned kimono, silk shirt, jeans and silver boots.
Lively has been spotted on set, too, but the photos show her arriving in a floral kimono.
Her favorite is a kimono-style silky number with a sweet print from Plum Pretty Sugar ($60).
Among the creations were short slip-on dresses and laced silk shorts, covered by sequinned kimono robes.
DRESSED IN A cassock-like kimono, the tea master prepares the infusion as his hushed congregation watches.
" A third Twitter user questioned: "Why's it called kimono if that's a completely different style of clothing.
She accessorized her look with ankle-length stoned tan heels and a floral silk kimono from Zara.
With her was Jenny Kee, with a big red pair of glasses and a dark red kimono.
Kim Kardashian West's shapewear brand, previously known as Kimono Solutionwear, has a new and less controversial name.
Ian and I wore the quote-unquote male version of the kimono and participated in the ceremony.
In Japan, all the traditional businesses have families that specialize and my family had a kimono business.
The brand was originally named Kimono, a traditional Japanese garment, which led to accusations of cultural appropriation.
A vintage embroidered silk kimono from her mother is displayed above the bed, against an accent wall.
It's basically an informal, cotton kimono — it has a sash, not an obi — and I have several.
She moved to New York, but she was inspired by the kimono during a trip to Japan.
"I need a name that really does speak to me the way that Kimono did," she said.
Gold leaf on ice cream and kimono patterns on guitars aren't the only ways Kanazawa tweaks tradition.
" Even the mayor of Japan's former capital city Kyoto, Daisaku Kadokawa, posted a letter to Kardashian on his Facebook page, saying, "I am writing this letter to convey our thoughts on Kimono and ask you to re-consider your decision of using the name Kimono in your trademark.
WargoAs a kimono enthusiast, I thought I knew what it meant to don one of these special garments.
The former referred to traditional Japanese-style clothing, like the kimono, while the latter referred to Western clothes.
Among other frills, this meant hexagonal hanging lamps shaped like ancient gems and partitions edged with kimono fabrics.
Lourd wore a chalk Cady mini dress with kimono sleeves and a keyhole back detail by Tom Ford.
Williams' Long Floral Print Kimono retails for a totally reasonable $149 and it looks both beautiful and comfortable.
With dollar notes sewn into her kimono — to avoid custom hassles, Kusama arrived in New York in 1958.
She finished off the look with a black and white knitted kimono and a matching wide-brimmed hat.
This braiding technique is actually borrowed directly from an ancient method of braiding used in making a kimono.
Open the kimono, put it all out there, and work like heck to try to bring it back.
Kardashian West was met with further criticism after applying to trademark the word "Kimono" in a certain font.
Did you know the kimono was something special to you when you saw it for the first time?
A second solo exhibition by this artist, "Open the Kimono," which closed in its original form on Sept.
I believe there are watches that should only be worn with kimono and others only with casual clothes.
Toward the end of the night she changed into a traditional Japanese wedding kimono to surprise her husband.
So on that July night, she braided her hair and dressed in a red and gold-filigreed kimono.
That gold lamé kimono decked out in fluttering petals (or are they lamé clams?) is to die for.
So it's significant that U.K.-based startup Karakuri has "opened the kimono" on its plans to do just that.
Rising fashion icon Zendaya, who wore an oh-so-chic quilted kimono to a Knicks game earlier this week.
Khalili's kimono collection spans the short Taishō era (1912-1926) and reaches into the early Shōwa period (1926-1989).
I get that you're incorporating your name but kimono is the name of a traditional (and cultural) Japanese robe.
I get that you're incorporating your name but kimono is the name of a traditional (and cultural) japanese robe.
He tapped fists with his opponent, a lanky yellow belt sporting mismatched pieces of kimono and then he pounced.
In Japan, the kimono is considered the national dress and is worn to important events like weddings and funerals.
The exhibition asks what it is about the kimono that has captivated designers worldwide, for well over a century.
Among the aprons, you'll find a "kappogi," which protected the kimono from food stains in the early 20th century.
Thanks to a few #babymoon Instagram posts, we know exactly what she's wearing — a chic but affordable Zara kimono.
" His argument, he said, was, "Let's open the kimono—let's tell it all, see it the way it is.
I couldn't pull off that gilt-edged feathered kimono, is the kind of thing someone without style might lament.
Question: Recently, my mother handed down one of her yukata (a Japanese summer kimono made of cotton) to me.
In order to support the kimono work he is passionate about, he and his wife peddle indigo trinkets online.
Like unmarried women, wakashu who belonged to the samurai class could wear the long-sleeved kimono known as furisode.
Anderson: Take this kimono [he gestures to a piece made by Hamilton, inspired by a painting by Christopher Wood].
"I understand and have deep respect for the significance of the kimono in Japanese culture," Ms. Kardashian West said.
Kino Kimono is Kim Talon and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley (so those aforementioned touchstones make total sense).
One had her posing alongside a sumo wrestler; another, walking down the stairs of a tea house in flowered kimono.
On the right, the young and buoyant Liu Wa, possibly on vacation and dressed in kimono, is engrossed in photography.
The company made the announcement on its website today, and Kimono co-founder Pratap Ranade confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch.
Criticism intensified this month when a Founder Securities analyst broadcast her research report from home dressed in a flowery kimono.
Kim Kardashian West is once again facing accusations of cultural appropriation after announcing her new lingerie and shapewear brand, Kimono.
From left to right: UNIQLO Beauty and the Beast kimono shirt, $2280; blouse, $2599; short sleeve shirt, $299.99 Buy It!
From silky, kimono-esque styles to more masculine-inspired ones, we highly recommend you add this staple to your closet.
Kim Kardashian West is calling the decision to name her shapewear brand Kimono "innocent" in a new interview for WSJ.
Ryokans, traditional Japanese inns, often offer guests a yukata, a casual summer kimono usually made of cotton, during their stay.
Perhaps the richness of kimono fabrics compelled European designers in the 19th century to create new fashions from deconstructed kimonos.
If you're in search of the perfect kimono and don't want to break the bank, Zara is where it's at.
Jason Chaffetz called on Donald Trump Wednesday to "open up (his) kimono" and release his tax returns and medical records.
"Everything is so expensive when you're 18, it would be impossible to have a kimono then," one Twitter user lamented.
With that, she kicked off her shoes and ran outside barefoot, her red kimono blowing in the wind behind her.
The struggle is real for kimono-clad, minimalist characters in pseudonymous Japanese artist Zenjidou Yamada's anachronistic woodblock print-style illustrations.
Prior to Kardashian's recent controversy, Japanese writers had called out the fashion industry for its seeming obsession with the kimono.
That announcement of the trademark caused an uproar (kimono being a traditional Japanese garment) and invited pushback from Japanese officials.
When he read his poems aloud, he shouted them to a crowded room, circling and often wearing a pink kimono.
For work, I wear regular clothes, but when I go out at night I wear kimono — I often wear it.
It was announced in June 2019 as Kimono, a name that instantly drew criticism for its appropriation of Japanese culture.
This season, the indigo-hued fabric is layered, ruffled or cut into Kimono-like silhouettes — and worn with tabi shoes.
A little time on the therapist's couch might serve as more potent self-care than the Kimono or the sushi.
Cage wore a black suit and tie with a white button up, while his date opted for a colorful Japanese kimono.
One magazine said that one of our old looks—a poncho or a kimono—was like something a Jedi would wear.
" He then went on to say, "We're flipping up the kimono and letting people see what campaigns do on Election Day.
Time and again, the kimono has been transformed from a unique Japanese "thing to wear" into an international fashion design staple.
He gestures at one: a handsome model, lined with white satin, and decorated on the outside with superb red kimono cloth.
But here, Kimono, let me pick you up very gently and hang you in a place of honor in the closet.
The line, called Kimono when it was announced in June, faced immense scrutiny, with many saying the name disrespected Japanese culture.
According to a press release from June, when the line was initially announced under Kimono, items will come in nine shades.
Meers (Michele Ragusa) wears a kimono and speaks in a stereotypical accent that occasionally sounds more Southern American than Southeast Asian.
Kardashian West initially faced backlash for the original name of the brand, called Kimono, which some people saw as culturally insensitive.
The itamae (head chef), usually wearing a kimono and a headband, prepares your maki and nigiri right in front of you.
The TowelSelections Men's Plush Kimono Robe is our top choice because it's well-priced (under $40), well-made, and luxuriously soft.
And he did, with showgirl sparkle and kimono flowers; nerdy plaids and rhinestone pasties; pagoda hats and Joan Crawford velvet gowns.
An earlier version of this obituary misstated the year a book version of Ms. Bacher's exhibition "Open the Kimono" was published.
Next he pulls out a black jacket with an '80s-style peplum, and another with two kimono folds down its back.
Masako wore a multilayered kimono, in a design that dates to the 10th century and is known as itsutsuginu karaginu mo.
PIXY LIAO: OPEN KIMONO is on view at Chambers Fine Art (522 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan) through April 27, 2019.
One of its signature drinks is the "White Geisha," which features foam art of a woman dressed in a traditional Japanese kimono.
A billowing gauze cape with double-breasted lapels was reminiscent of Bowie's kimono capes, and his fondness of a double-breasted blazer.
Netsuke are ornamental toggles made mainly out of ivory or wood and used to fasten things to the sash of a kimono.
Get me out of my sequin dress, off the red carpet, and into some cozy sweatpants or a kimono and I'm happy.
The actress Marisa Berenson, the house muse, warmly greeted the guests, embracing a woman in a kimono who was smiling and mingling.
Kim Kardashian West's new shapewear brand, Kimono, has been live less than 24 hours — but it's already angered a lot of people.
The brand came under heavy fire from those saying Kim was inappropriate in using the Kimono name ... a type of Japanese garment.
There was Hakushi, who came to the ring in a kasa and a kimono, with Japanese characters written all over his body.
He has reportedly made a white dinner jacket for Diddy, tunics for Wu-Tang Clan, and a bulletproof kimono for Steven Seagal.
Erlich's attempt to bridge the cultural divide by offering a Japanese kimono as a parting gift gets precisely the response it deserves.
Now, according to Marie Kondo, I have to drag out this kimono, which I haven't touched for years, and have The Talk.
The only problem was the name, Kimono, which many found disrespectful given that the products connect in no way to Japanese culture.
The brand encourages wearers to don the short-sleeve kimono style two different ways: with the zipper in front or in back. 
Kim Kardashian West detailed the eye-opening experience she had after naming her shapewear line "KIMONO" and receiving backlash for cultural appropriation.
According to multiple Japanese fashion blogs, letting your heel hang off like this helps you balance, especially when wearing a narrow kimono.
The formal, diagonally wrapped simplicity of martial arts clothes and kimonos was inspiration for a plain white "kimono shirt" with matching tie.
When we wear kimono, the women has big breast and slim waist have to fill the gap and make body shape flat.
We weren't going to go and open up the kimono unless we got comfortable, and we were comfortable with the entire transaction.
But the worst of all is Oshiroi Baba, a bent old lady in a torn kimono, carrying a bottle of face powder.
Then again, the white wedding kimono that she wore was in a style thought to have been adopted from Western wedding gowns.
The princess of pop Kylie Minogue wore a glittery blue Dolce & Gabbana kimono in 2007, which she paired with gold-pointed stilettos.
When it came time for her coming-of-age ceremony at age 20, she balked at having to wear a feminine kimono.
Katsuro moaned as a bulge formed beneath the material of his kimono, a bulge that Miyuki seized, kneaded, massaged, squashed and crushed.
For her winning gown, Riyo Mori wore a kimono-inspired black and floral evening gown from the Spring/Summer 2007 Gucci collection. 
Malaysian people wearing a traditional Japanese Kimono perform a dance during the Bon Odori festival on July 21, 2018, in Shah Alam, Malaysia.
While Kardashian West's corset surely isn't for the faint of heart, luckily for fans, her Kimono designs are definitely suited for everyday wear.
There were Chinese dragons embroidered on Balmain blazers and Versace gowns; there were China doll purses and kimono-inspired gowns (kimonos are Japanese).
Next I put on my Maison De Soir black kimono robe, light my favorite Diptyque candle, and turn on my makeup-applying playlist.
The kimono-wearing, celebrity-obsessed nightclubber Andromedon is part Blanche Devereaux from The Golden Girls, part Stefon from Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update.
Moleza shuffled out onto the mats and plopped himself down in front of a small blue belt sporting a newly purchased Cascagrossa kimono.
"We deserve more choice in the selection for our body type that isn't just the generic black swimsuit with a kimono," she wrote.
Kardashian launched her Kimono shapewear line earlier this week ... a collection Kim created to include women of all shapes, sizes and skin complexions.
At one point, a bearded singer, wearing a floral Technicolor kimono and a massive ushanka, brought an electric-blue Melodica to the mic.
Since then, people have called Parson a hero, telling her that her red kimono resembled a super hero's cape blowing in the wind.
Jackson picked a shirtdress with kimono belt and wide-leg pants by the New York City designer Caron Callahan, who is her friend.
The modern kimono — with longer sleeves and a wider waist tie — arrived during the 1600s and has remained virtually the same ever since.
Kardashian West's shapewear line underwent a complete redesign in August after its original name — Kimono Solutionwear — was widely criticized for being culturally insensitive.
But then again, the white wedding kimono that she wore was in a style thought to have been adopted from Western wedding gowns.
Trademark law nuances aside, Kim's decision to name the line Kimono in the first place was really at the root of the controversy.
The flouncy skirt gets a button-down blouse to balance it out; the wide-leg jeans get a silk kimono and pink flats.
Kim Kardashian West opened up about the process of changing her shapewear brand's name from Kimono to SKIMS after facing cultural appropriation backlash.
The center displays traditional kimono decorated with Kaga Yuzen designs, as well as contemporary items such as patterned wedding dresses and men's shirts.
She also launched KKW Fragrance and a shapewear brand called Skims (its original name, Kimono, was scuttled after an outcry over cultural appropriation).
Ayako's kimono is similar in style and design to that worn by her sister Princess Noriko when she married Kunimaro Senge in 2014.
It features items like gold-logoed boxing shorts for $250, a rhinestoned crop top for $3,795 and a sequined, hooded kimono for $8,195.
Mr. Ruckhäberle has titled his series "Netsuke" — after the small sculptures invented in 23th-century Japan to fasten the cords on kimono sashes.
Everything I've ever done is in there, including a black kimono-sleeved skirt suit — the look that first got me in the door.
Among others, Khalili's Edo-era holdings include a kimono made for a young samurai-class woman that is known by its inventory number, KX144.
In Japanese, kimono means "thing that's worn" and refers to full-length robes with sashes donned for formal occasions such as weddings and funerals.
Nominees will receive Soma's Sensuous Silk Kimono Robe and their Somainnofit smart-fit bra, which gives precise measurements to a smartphone app via Bluetooth.
Earlier this summer, Kardashian was met with accusations of cultural appropriation, when she said she was going to call her new shapewear line Kimono.
He told Pskovskaya Guberniya he made the run across the border wearing only shorts and a T-shirt, with a kimono in a backpack.
Kimono Labs says it currently has 125,000 developers on its platform (though it's unclear if these are active users or simply total sign-ups).
Ja'Sonia: AYR Denim Kimono, $23, available at AYR; Baldwin Harper Trouser, $21, available at Baldwin; Leigh Miller Jetty Earring, $2670, available at Leigh Miller.
In other cases things are made up out of whole cloth, like the kimono the kid in the very center seems to be wearing.
Also, can I just be the first to say that you are never too old for a kimono—all power to his silken elbow.
You see, Kardashian's line is named Kimono — get it, because her name is Kim — and that has pissed off a lot of Japanese people.
Kardashian, meanwhile, has filed for trademarks on tons of products using the word kimono, which could keep other U.S. brands from using the word.
" Himes told USA Today that people want politicians on Twitter to start "calling it like it is" and "opening the kimono on personal details.
Kardashian West's shapewear line underwent a complete redesign in August after its original name — Kimono — was widely criticized for being culturally insensitive in June.
Kimono: Kim Kardashian West has been accused of cultural appropriation for naming her line of bras, briefs and bodysuits after the traditional Japanese garment.
Originally slated to be called "Kimono Solutionwear," the name stirred up so many accusations of cultural appropriation that she walked back her initial announcement.
Vintage watches are an accessory that I can match to my clothes or to the kimono I choose to wear on any given day.
They watched the bride-to-be, Alexsandra Lerner, 24, of Manhattan Beach, as she pulled a lace-trimmed short silk kimono from a box.
" She said: "He was very thoughtful and very kindly explaining to me the meaning of kimono and why that's so important to their culture.
There are those three early records from the 70s— Kimono My House, Indiscreet and Propaganda—that I loved, as well as the Moroder stuff.
Kardashian said she had announced the Kimono products in June "with the best intentions in mind," and she appreciated the feedback she had received.
Kimono in Japanese means "thing that's worn" and refers to full-length robes with sashes donned for formal occasions such as weddings and funerals.
I heard a loud bang as I was pulling on the pants to my kimono and looked up to see Moicano closing the academy door.
In it, the audience watches as she dances in a pale kimono dotted with red circles, holding the stem of a flower behind her back.
Caught red-handed, smooth-legged, in her mother's silk kimono that was so long, it looked like she was a tree made of flowing silk.
They will only have two weeks to migrate to a different service because the team will shut down the Kimono service on February 29, 2016.
Leakes later ditched the swimsuit and slipped into another beach-ready number: colorful pants with a white top and a long, floral, kimono-like garment.
Yumiko was in the early stages of dementia, struggling with vocabulary and unable to teach the kimono-dressing classes she had run for 25 years.
The fresh white material of his kimono was a drastic contrast to worn pieces of Moleza's own mismatched attire, but Moleza didn't seem to notice.
Nic and his chick -- sporting a colorful kimono -- hit up celeb hotspot Asanebo in the Valley on Friday, making this a pretty high profile evening.
Saturday night he was in Las Vegas at Carrot Top's show, and his date appears to have been the same woman ... still rocking the kimono.
The team's judo coach Robbie Brennan kept the time and Stephen Lowry played master of ceremonies, trading his kimono for a waistcoat and jacket combination.
MYK 100% Mulberry Silk Luxury Kimono Robe, $89.99 - $179.99, available at AmazonLounging at home is cool and comfortable in this 100% pure mulberry silk robe.
I'm also taking apart a kimono I'd used to give an embroidery workshop in Portland and I'm reusing an antique Guatemalan poncho with purple cats.
Over my clothes, I wore a yukata robe, or lightweight cotton kimono, that had been so complicated to put on, it came with illustrated instructions.
She said he paid her 100,000 yen (about $930) to pose in the studio wearing a kimono or performing dances that Mr. Araki would photograph.
Hadid sported a kimono-inspired lilac gown, complete with gemstone-encrusted white, jade and orange embroidery and a colossal bow resting askew on her shoulders.
It includes an Erdem floral gown ($3,405), an Osman puff-sleeve sweatshirt ($555) and tiered tulle skirt ($3503) and an Alice Archer embroidered kimono ($2,150).
"No Stranger (To Love)" meanwhile is the sonic equivalent of Morier doing a little shoulder shake in that gold kimono: lux, cheeky, really rather appealing.
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Isetan and Mitsukoshi both entered the world as kimono shops — 130 years and more than 300 years ago — and on rails by the street-facing window are kimonos (670 to 800 euros, or $750 to $900) by Y. & Sons, the next-generation arm of the renowned kimono producer Yamato, designed to appeal to a younger generation that has been turning away from traditional dress.
On Tuesday, he took in the Gunther Paris show in a noticeably more muted, but chic look wearing a kimono-style top, cuffed jeans and sneakers.
Not a grain of rice is out of place, not a taiko drumbeat is out of sync, not a kimono sash ripples without his say-so.
I see a beautiful silk nightgown that I consider buying and wearing as a kimono, but I try it on and decide I don't need it.
In the newly released photo, the Dragon Prince wears a set of kimono that were gifted to him by the Japanese Imperial Family during the trip.
She did her own hair and makeup and styled herself last month… And mastered this rocker-chic look as well… …along with this kimono-inspired number.
But, just things that were said – MARC BENIOFF: Hey, we are an open – it's an open kimono at Salesforce ever-- all of our secrets are online.
Alvin Langdon Coburn's portrait "Elsie 'Toodles' Thomas" — with his sitter in a fashionable scarlet kimono holding an orange flower — echoes the poses of Pre-Raphaelite beauties.
He wore a Japanese kimono and slippers, and he had flowers and an alibi that he was visiting an ambassador's daughter who'd just had a baby.
Parson, a 25-year-old fashion blogger on Instagram, was wearing a brand new Kimono and new suede shoes she bought the day before at Target.
The president bowed slightly as he entered the ring, and with the help of a kimono-attired sumo official, he handed the trophy to the champion.
For Mr. Sarfati's new boutique inside the Printemps Haussmann department store, he showcases elastic trousers and velvet kimono jackets alongside geometric chairs from the Remix Gallery.
Wearables For more than 15 years Ms. Pulitzer has been a fan of Helene Florence, an artist who upcycles kimono fabrics into fashion, accessories and jewelry.
Ms Florence calls her work "kimono reform," and her pieces include the likes of obi belt bags and necklaces, many embellished with vintage brooches and pins.
The goal is to communicate the same connections expressed by Trent Lafond, a 20-year-old model who wore the collection's kimono at the exhibition's preview.
One example of a red-lipped fan-seller in a translucent blue kimono exemplifies the need for a careful eye to discern between men and women.
That's a white uniformNot a white TNo, not a white TNo, not a white TI rock the kimono like I'm rockin' with BonoYou don't know judo?
The actress changed into a pair of distressed jeans and blue kimono for the outing, and flashed a big smile as she hugged Copperfield in the photo.
They wore loose pants with matching jumpers and long cardigans, ruffled tops with ankle-high trousers, woven denim items, transparent dresses as well as kimono-like tops.
"Because of our new roles at Palantir, it will not be possible for us to continue providing the publicly available cloud hosted kimono product," the team explains.
While the line received much positive feedback, some social media users criticized Kardashian West's use of the word "kimono," a traditional Japanese clothing item, as the name.
After Kardashian West's announcement, many social media users criticized her use of the word "kimono," a traditional Japanese clothing item, as the name of her new brand.
Here are six of the most popular kimono-inspired cardigans and dusters you can get on Amazon according to its fashion best-sellers chart and customer reviews.
But expecting a viewer to look at Seagal and see anything other than a bulletproof kimono-wrapped pile of shit is probably too much for the medium.
But practicality is not what the holidays are all about at Goop, which is why a pricey $595 silk kimono from Fleur du Mal comes highly recommended.
Among the looks were kimono silhouettes, cowboy accessories like bolo ties and rodeo belts, and an elegant silk slip dress that looks better on boys than girls.
Who made the original piece is still disputed, but some believe a Japanese tailor in Honolulu used kimono-inspired prints, silks, and tailoring to create the top.
Born Ukeleke Elumelu Onwubuya, Ras Kimono, alongside his Massive Dread Band, won several awards and was prominent in the Nigerian music scene for his socially-conscious lyrics.
The warm, well-made TowelSelections Men's Plush Kimono Robe will be as comfortable after 100 wash cycles as it was the first time you slipped it on.
The supercentenarian was gussied up in a gold kimono with red trimmings as she was ushered into her birthday celebration at a nursing home in Fukuoka, Japan.
A 2002 kimono using Bingata, the traditional dyed fabric of Okinawa — where the artist Yuken Teruya grew up, near a United States Army base — is especially striking.
In any case, she is not, it turns out, the first brand with no particular kimono-related history to attempt to attach the name to a product.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is to send patent officials to the United States to discuss the flap over Kim Kardashian's Kimono brand underwear, the trade minister said on Tuesday.
The reality TV star and businesswoman said on Monday she would rename her Kimono shapewear line after people in Japan said her use of the term was disrespectful.
The timeworn textile is made from patches of indigo-dyed cotton, and it hangs beside an indigo-dyed Snow Peak kimono ($440), faded and lined with baffled insulation.
Kimono Labs, a Y Combinator-backed web-scraping tool that helps developers grab information from sites without having to write their own scrapers, has been acquired by Palantir.
In Mattix's story, there are drugs, celebrities, a posh hotel room, a physical moment of confrontation with someone who objects to Bowie's look, a kimono, and more drugs.
Wearing a kimono on a Japanese bus causes no astonishment, notes Mr Fang, lamenting that a gap of several centuries separates Han traditional culture from the modern world.
His kimono was soaked through with sweat and a look of exhaustion was brazen across his sun burnt face, but all the same he wanted to keep going.
It's much more worthy than their Tottenville Resident Who Was In The Background Of That Episode Of The Sopranos Where Tony Accidentally Sets Valentina's Kimono On Fire Day.
Stopping first at a kiosk just inside the Porta Romana gate, they donned chevron-patterned kimono jackets that Mr. Nakamura, 45, had ordered from a traditional Kyoto craftsman.
Backstage later, barefoot (someone misplaced his sandals) and in a red kimono and turquoise jewelry, he said he followed a simple method when narrowing down his set list.
Today at an unremarkable cafe in Burbank, Mia is dressed in heels, black pants, a red silk corset, and a vintage velvet and fringe kimono bought on Etsy.
In response to Kardashian's brand announcement, Japanese visual artist Mariko Umeda pointed out in a tweet that shapewear is at odds with the general concept of the kimono.
"I understand and have deep respect for the significance of the kimono in Japanese culture," she said in a statement to the New York Times on June 27.
In "Giverny II," she used the heat transfer technique to print multiple floral images onto handmade paper, then pieced and machine-stitched them into a kimono-shaped garment.
" She placed tanzanite beads on either side of the orange lacquered sphere in her multistone Candy Kimono Nibble necklace "to bring attention to the center of the necklace.
Shortly after Kardashian West, 39, announced the name of her new company in June 2019, fans criticized her use of the word "kimono," a traditional Japanese clothing item.
On weekdays, artisan Kozo Morita can be seen at work in his workshop here, and not just designing kimono; he also uses Kaga Yuzen techniques to decorate guitars.
Liao's solo show Open Kimono, at Chambers Fine Art, builds on her ongoing project Experimental Relationship, in which she explores possibilities of a heterosexual relationship beyond societal normativity.
Schmidt, the most cringe-worthy (albeit layered) of the three men on the show, understands that sexuality is a spectrum and rocks a Kimono on chill evenings in.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads For decades, the late Japanese artist Yoshitoshi Mori worked as an established kimono designer, using a stencil-based technique to dye his textiles.
Earlier this week she was seen sporting a similar look consisting of knee-length biker shorts, a sheer bustier-style top, fur-trimmed slides and an oversize embroidered kimono.
He has to be told to put on his kimono and once he's in class he goes through the techniques as if he has no idea what he's doing.
Some outfits in the label's high-end Armani Prive range had an oriental air, in the rounded necklines of some dresses, flowing silk styles, or a kimono-style cloak.
Our sources say Kim has no intentions of ever producing the Japanese garment, and her trademark of the Kimono name only applies to her business ... as is standard practice.
The installation was called "Narcissus Garden" and Kusama stood amidst it in a kimono, with her signature bangs and heavily lined eyes, selling each sphere for $2 to passersby.
You'll find the fruits of the partnership, a kimono print parka ($2723), as well as ceramics, like an unglazed sake cup ($1983), from the Japanese pottery brand Hill-Side.
Dressed in a kimono, he sang songs from his latest album, otherwise beautiful songs, but at that moment they sounded channeled from the track-lit church of my youth.
She's earmarked items, including a $345 Fleur du Mal Kimono Robe, $210 Tomoko Spa Massage, and $375 pair of Givenchy pool slides, for the mama of North and Saint.
The kimono tradition is shrinking in Japan so in a way, my rebellion in the face of complete tradition is helping it stay alive but also helping bring change.
"We've actually had people come up to us and be like, 'You're the reason we have pedophiles,'" Shalane says as she puts the final touches on her kimono look.
The line was originally called "Kimono," and the name sparked enormous backlash from Japanese media personalities and politicians who claimed the use of the name was appropriating their culture.
In another photo, she wears a kimono and sunglasses, standing in the middle of the ocean with her arms outstretched, as if she can't quite believe she's really there.
Fabrics made by Mr. Mack, reflecting the same collaging and dyeing techniques he uses to transform old scarves into textile sculptures, were used for a kimono, pajamas and shirts.
On Monday, reality TV star and businesswoman Kim Kardashian said she would rename her Kimono shapewear line after people in Japan said her use of the term was disrespectful.
Decked out in a sequin, feathered kimono, rainbow socks and multiple sweatbands, Corden went to work with the group of dancers, ultimately creating one very unique routine for the show.
Modern in spirit, even as it features traditional imagery — pine trees, bamboo, cranes, thatch-roof houses — kimono K101 exemplifies the Meiji period's melding of elements and sensibilities old and new.
The lady at the Liberty Walk booth was wearing them too, and she was even wearing a corset, though it was ironically trussed up on the outside of her kimono.
Sistine, 18 — who recently graduated high school — showed off her figure in a short lacy black dress, finishing the look with a kimono-inspired jacket and black ankle-strap heels.
Kim + Ono, based in Chinatown, San Francisco, is killing the hand-painted silk kimono game, while Recliner's jersey robe is perfect for everyday lounging—and even comes with a hood.
After the roll everyone filed off the mats in search of water, but Moleza remained stationary, he continued to sit idly in the middle of the mats adjusting his kimono.
Still rocking the beige pointed-toe mules with an eye design, she stopped by the Stuart Weitzman pop-up event in a Zeynep Alcay "kimono suit" and layers of necklaces.
Kim Kardashian West has no plans to produce traditional Japanese Kimono garments -- and certainly hasn't put a lock on the product name, which has been used in business for years.
"Seeing her in a kimono waving a flag in Rio, I thought it was significant," said Ryoko Akamatsu, president of Women in New World, International Network, a women's advocacy group.
It includes upcycled garments like a kimono cardigan felted together from two layers of cashmere sweaters ($500) and a silk tunic reassembled from three pairs of wide-leg pants ($198).
A Kim Kardashian West fan believes she inspired the new name of the star's shapewear line, SKIMS Solutionwear, after it was changed following criticism over its original name, Kimono Solutionwear.
I was just on my way out, I said, and pointed toward the exit with the same insistence with which the woman in the kimono was pointing at the group.
Because the kimono is a heavy, expensive, and delicate piece of clothing, the garments are typically worn today in Japan during formal occasions only, and with a sense of pride.
As most of the crowd already knew, it was Lady Bunny, Wigstock's buxom, potty-mouthed founder and ringmaster, wearing a kimono-sleeved metallic-gold minidress and a towering blond bouffant.
One of the standouts is Jeremy Scott's kimono cape for Moschino that looks like the compartments of a TV dinner — vegetable medley on one side; mashed potatoes on the other.
Yet it was in evening clothes used to open the show — a tuxedo spliced with a kimono — that Mr. Armani demonstrated how, even at almost 83, he retains his mastery.
Maybe they haven't paraded around female job applicants with open kimono, à la Charlie Rose, or haven't traumatized female colleagues by subjecting them to pelvic pinball, à la Mark Halperin.
In a glittery corset and kimono, Ms. Barzilai, 25, took the stage singing, "I'm not your toy, you stupid boy," interspersing the verses with arm flaps, beatboxing and chicken noises.
Ayako, who wore a traditional court kimono and hakama skirt and styled her hair in the "osuberakashi" ancient style for noblewomen, spoke to reporters following the ceremony to express her joy.
According to the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, a police officer in Fukui prefecture claimed the man's long kimono—a particular style that fell below the knees—impaired his ability to drive.
Etro, whose brand is known for its famed Paisley print, added plaid this time — in red and black — as well as flower, kimono, tiger and dragon prints for her fall outfits.
On second glance, though, the jackets had kimono closings and were adorned with images created by a traditional Kyoto artisan who makes the fish pennants flown on the Children's Day holiday.
A Kim Kardashian West fan who suggested calling the star's shapewear line SKIM after it was met with criticism over its original name, Kimono Solutionwear, believes she inspired its name change.
The TV star, business mogul, and aspiring lawyer will rename her forthcoming shapewear brand of bodysuits and other Spanx-like underthings, after its original name, Kimono, raised concerns of cultural appropriation.
See, for example, a lovely white tank feathered in chiffon, atop tiered plissé black trousers, or the shell-pink pajamas with a matching tucked and tufted kimono worn by her bride.
Though it takes up about a fourth of the room in my suitcase, I bring a kimono on tour because we're playing rock and roll clubs and sleeping on floors sometimes.
The fabric is then hung in the studio to dry before he can do the same work on the other side: Once sewn into a kimono, it won't even be visible.
For my sixth birthday she bought me a red silk kimono to wear for the annual Bon festival, a celebration that includes a dance to welcome the spirits of the dead.
Greeting his hosts in traditional "hakama" kimono and trying his hand at archery, the visit was rare public exposure for the boy on whose shoulders the future of the monarchy rests.
In a recent story, DeAnne showed off her OOTD: a new kimono in the collection, which she said is called "Chloe," along with matching pink and red pants and "Valentina" shirt.
In the book's afterword, he relates a dream in which his translator imagined him as "a high-class woman of a certain age" in a kimono shop in the early 1900s.
One man, clad in a Japanese kimono-style dress, is shown being violently pushed to the ground, while his friend is restrained in a choke-hold by another guard before collapsing.
The deep-green "Samurai 8" suggests a castle keep; and the lovely "Samurai 10," with symmetrical curving planes of fiberboard for trailing sleeves, is a postbattle kimono and an abstract butterfly.
What we value is authenticity, and Amager Fusion, with its pizza dough naan and kimono pølser and all-you-can-eat Chinese/Japanese/Thai/Mongolian/Danish buffets, seems the opposite of authentic.
The 26-year-old mother of one was spotted out in New York City on Wednesday looking chic as she strolled through the city in jeans, a t-shirt, and floral kimono.
The most-talked about plot point in season two involves Titus's decision to stage a one-man show, Kimono She Didn't: Murasaki's Journey, dressed as the Japanese geisha his soul once embodied.
I made the decision to name my company Kimono, not to disassociate the word from its Japanese roots but as a nod to the beauty and detail that goes into a garment.
On July 2000, Kardashian West put out a call to her fans asking them for names they liked after the brand's original name, Kimono Solutionwear, was met with accusations of cultural appropriation.
Instead, she stuffed the wrapping for my hot towel into the gaping sleeve of her kimono, but very beautifully, so that one could forget the fact that she was disposing of garbage.
She's clad in unflattering gaucho pants she's overdyed, a complexly folded top of her own design, and a kimono, and it is obvious that Carla's opinion is the only one that matters.
Mr. Sunshine, dressed in a kimono and bearing the two traditional props of the form — a fan (sensu) and a hand towel (tenugui) — was born in Toronto and is of Slovenian descent.
Princess Ayako was dressed in a light yellow-colored uchiki kimono embroidered with pink flowers and green leaves and a deep purple hakama -- wide-legged pleated trousers that fall to the ankles.
Anthea Hamilton: You commissioned me to make three works: The "British Grasses" kimono, an alabaster leg and another leg chair that was part of a series I've been working on for awhile.
I also wear a kimono in the form of a Nike logo-emblazoned lab coat and walk while wobbling on geta, which, here, are made of soccer cleats affixed to plywood blocks.
"We're so, so, so excited," The Hills alum, 32 — who was outfitted in a stunning Elizabeth and James kimono robe dress for the festivities — tells PEOPLE exclusively about preparing for baby No. 1.
There, attitudes regarding the sumptuary laws dictating what kinds of fabrics or colors could be worn were relaxed, and women with an eye for drumming up business decked themselves out in extravagant kimono.
Expect things like boxy linen tops, silk tunics, and slouchy viscose jumpsuits, but also skinny jeans made with organic cotton, boiled wool kimono jackets, sleek pencil skirts and slip dresses, and leather mules.
She wore a fresh-pressed white linen jumpsuit and a goldtone vintage kimono that set off her loose shoulder-length hair, dyed for her role to a searing titian from its customary blond.
Beijing (CNN)A video of university security guards attacking a man wearing a "kimono" last Sunday has gone viral in China, stirring heated debate online over the country's easily stoked anti-Japanese sentiment.
The application also involves a specific font version of the word Kimono — a sort of bubbly print created, she has said, by her husband, Kanye West — as opposed to the general word itself.
The oldest Hadid sister, 22, was holding her sister, Bella's, hand while wearing a a Zuhair Murad FW/16 couture champagne colored dress with cascading kimono sleeves in lace along with Christian Louboutin heels.
I called my husband, who met me at the hospital… no fancy face creams, silk kimono or anything else everyone urged me to bring to ensure being ready for that first "beautiful" birthing moment.
While it's fair to condemn alarmist messaging claiming AI will destroy humanity, it's just as valid to ask the industry to open the kimono regarding how their systems track and utilize our emotional data.
If you didn't know, Amazon is full of some of the prettiest beach cover ups — from chic and simple options to flowy, kimono-style picks, there are tons of affordable ones to choose from.
The model, 26, posted a sizzling swimsuit photo on Instagram on Wednesday posing in a black plunging one-piece with adorable summer accessories, including a beach hat, mirrored sunnies and a floral-print kimono.
The Taiwanese Hello Kitty drinks bubble tea beneath Taipei 101, the capital's landmark skyscraper; she is separated from the Chinese version (who visits pandas and the Great Wall) by a kimono-wearing Japanese feline.
It was a surreal and haphazardly plotted love story, which began in the present and eventually cut to 20 or 30 years later, with Mr. Ehrenreich, in a kimono, screaming to stop a wedding.
If he enjoys spending time at home more than he likes hitting the town for a night out, this kimono will ensure that his homebody self is feeling comfortable and luxurious at all times.  
If he enjoys spending time at home more than he likes hitting the town for a night out, this kimono will ensure that his homebody self is feeling comfortable and luxurious at all times.
"I'm definitely a voyeur," Mr. Woodhouse said after showing a collection of graphically patterned capes, wrapped trousers, skimmers and fingertip length coats with kimono closures that drew clear inspiration from his current host culture.
Kardashian told The New York Times last week that while she has a "deep respect for the significance of the kimono in Japanese culture," she didn't plan on changing the name of her brand.
One sweet pic of the new mom stirring up eggs as she prepped together for Mother's Day brunch featured her wearing a crop top, denim cutoffs, and what appears to a fancy kimono situation.
"There was nothing expected about it, and yet it's needed," said Ms. Kes of her business, striking a glamorous figure in her Elongated Kimono Dress in black silk and a wild mane of hair.
The selections had echoes of orientalism and ornamentation — just as Ms. Trump's choice of a kimono-inspired dress, complete with obi belt, by the Colombian designer Johanna Ortiz, did in Japan earlier this month.
The details were hazy in my mind until a few weeks ago, when a woman sheathed in a kimono carried a pot of it to my table at Restaurant Nippon on East 52nd Street.
But you wouldn't know it upon meeting the designer, impeccably dressed in a men's wear kimono of his own design and a cashmere-lined poncho from the rainwear label he co-founded, Norwegian Rain.
Kardashian West announced that she would be changing the name of her lingerie and shapewear brand after receiving backlash from fans who criticized her use of the word "kimono," a traditional Japanese clothing item.
The Trump doll, clad in a gold and black kimono with a golden-haired head, was unveiled on Thursday by Kyugetsu Co Ltd, a maker of traditional "hina" dolls for the March 3 holiday.
As she was leaving the stadium, she noticed a Colombian soccer fan practicing how to say "omedeto" — "congratulations" in Japanese — and she was so touched by this, she gave the young woman her lucky kimono.
CSI: Miami star Eva LaRue also accused Seagal of sexual misconduct, telling Inside Edition that the actor came out in just an open kimono and underwear during her own meeting with him at his house.
In addition to announcing that she's launching Kimono, a new lingerie and shapewear line, the reality star was on hand to celebrate her younger sister's birthday on Thursday — and give her a very NSFW gift.
"I went to the poppy reserve and all I got was this bizarre pic of me in a kimono making a mildly awkward face surrounded by 4ish dying poppies," Lourd wrote on an Instagram post.
That's about it.) The kimono has evolved since its beginnings during Japan's Heian period (794 to 1185 AD), which saw many men and women wearing the wide-sleeved, ground-skirting outfit on a regular basis.
A simultaneous exhibition, called "Open the Kimono" and installed in an N.Y.U. lecture hall, was a slide show of phrases that Ms. Bacher had jotted down from television commercials, radio talk shows and overheard conversations.
"This is an American cowboy shirt, but it has the sleeves and silhouette of a kimono," he says of the piece he selects for the model, as he wraps a fabric belt around her waist.
The clothing designer, who is expecting her second child with husband William Tell, shared a gorgeous shot on Instagram on Tuesday showing off her growing baby bump in a white bikini with a sheer kimono.
With their clean lines and often bold, spare, geometric patterns, many of the kimono of the Taishō and early Shōwa years look and feel as fresh today as they must have appeared radical in their time.
The book begins with a selection of kimono from the Edo period (1603-1868), during which feudal Japan was controlled by nearly 280 daimyō (hereditary, land-owning regional lords), above whom the shogunal Tokugawa family ruled.
Experiences is an eclectic assortment of more than 5,000 excursions across at least 58 cities, ranging from wine tasting in California to glass-blowing in Chicago, making a kimono in Tokyo or guided meditation in Paris.
We love this versatile kimono that you can throw on over any outfit or swimsuit in the morning, or pair with a belt and pin it closed to transform it into an evening-ready maxi dress.
For instance this flea-market kimono with big red leaves that the vendor told me had been in a Woody Allen movie about an older man and the much younger woman who throws herself at him.
That night, Ms. Badu wore a kimono and multiple pieces of jewelry, including a crystal ankh necklace and a gold string hanging from her mouth, which she calls her "floss," made by the jewelry designer Bijules.
Cynthia Carlson's wallpaper, Jane Kaufman's feathers and beads, Valerie Jaudon's seductive grids, Tony Robbin's reliance on kimono patterns, Miriam Schapiro's incorporation of embroidered handkerchiefs, among others, were grouped together as an efflorescence of the decorative impulse.
Nothing felt literal about Mr. Rubin's adaptation of kimono to make quilted swing jackets, or his proportioning of trousers to resemble those of traditional Japanese farmers or in the shorts suits he showed on nonbinary models.
"[This] shapewear doesn't even resemble a kimono — she just chose a word that has Kim in it — there's no respect to what the garment actually means in our culture," one Japanese woman, Yuka Ohishi, told BBC.
While Kardashian West said it was "frustrating" that she and her team didn't think about the implications of the brand name Kimono ahead of time, she knew it was a no-brainer to make the change.
Meanwhile, Westerners rewrote the history of Japanese warring culture, overlooking the heroic quests of the onna-bugeisha and elevating, instead, exaggerated representations of swaggering male Samurai and subservient Japanese women, clad in kimono and tightly-bound obi.
Dressed in a Japanese kimono she bought on a bucket-list trip she took after being diagnosed in 2013, she swallowed a combination of morphine, pentobarbital and chloral hydrate prescribed by her doctor at 6:45 p.m.
Williams, 35, wore a long black dress and blue silk kimono-style robe decorated with a multicolored flower print — the same one she sported while watching sister Venus Williams compete at the French Open earlier this month.
When the police threatened to fine her, she bargained with them to reduce the fine and carried on to the peak, where she donned a kimono and made a pot of green tea under the hot sun.
I'm talking, admittedly, mostly about the women, though there were some notable male appearances, such as Chance the Rapper channeling Super Mario in overalls, Nick Cannon in a white turban and Sean Combs in a kimono top.
It has a subtle shawl collar that lends it more structure and a kimono-inspired silhouette that looks good whether you wrap the tie around your waist, leave it undone, or tie it up in the back.
When a good friend and college classmate of mine married there several years ago, guests gushed over her elaborate kimono, the beautiful red sake bowls, and the priests and priestesses who made the ceremony oh-so-Japanese.
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LOS ANGELES, July 1 (Reuters) - Reality TV star and businesswoman Kim Kardashian said on Monday she would rename her Kimono shapewear line after people in Japan said her use of the term to brand undergarments was disrespectful.
At least one of those films, The Red Kimono, is now set for rerelease under her given name, nearly 100 years after its premiere, as part of the largest ever commercially released collection of films by female directors.
Stepping out for a date night at Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica with her husband Kanye West, the mother of two donned a lace cami tucked into a leather mini skirt, covered up with a black silk kimono.
After days of criticism online, and even a letter from the mayor of Kyoto, Japan, Kardashian West — who originally doubled down on the use of Kimono — just announced that she will be changing the name of her collection.
Jessa, on the other hand, is handling her breakup and her solitude as one does — trying to get cable while smoking a cigarette in a kimono I'm sure she's been wearing for hours, taking breaks to throw up.
And that has often led to appropriative takes on the Japanese fashion, with many brands crafting their own drapey "kimono" cardigans and shawls, which tend to be modeled by white women and loosely inspired by the real thing.
Relations between Kim Kardashian West and the country of Japan eased on Tuesday after Ms. Kardashian West announced that she would change the name of her shapewear line, which she had said last week would be named Kimono.
When this reporter's good friend and college classmate got married there several years ago, guests gushed over her elaborate kimono and the beautiful red sake bowls and the priests and priestesses that made the ceremony oh-so-Japanese.
When this reporter's good friend and college classmate got married there several years ago, guests gushed over her elaborate kimono and the beautiful red sake bowls and the priests and priestesses who made the ceremony oh-so-Japanese.
Her stains are rarely the same tone on both sides of a board, nor are the finishing touches — like the stitchlike lines and dashes or, in the case of the kimono, a red windowpane grid that evokes textiles.
In the case of Liberty Walk, the gent at the booth was the kimono designer responsible for the costumes, and his eccentric behavior leads me to believe he was there on his own whim rather than the company's request.
The celebrity, married to rapper Kanye West, faced backlash on the internet last week when she detailed plans for a new business — a shapewear line akin to Spanx called "Kimono," which is meant to be worn under other garments.
He is a cartoon supervillain with silver eyes, black kimono-style pyjamas, and a habit of striding around his painfully chic but impractical lair, reciting his plans to a sidekick who must have heard them a thousand times before.
Named after the obscure and exorbitantly-priced materials he uses to make his wabi-sabi oxford shirts, kimono-inspired coats, and patchwork trousers, it combines the appeal of a vintage hunt with the discerning eye of an art collector.
He is influenced by graffiti and street art, as well as by his native Alaskan heritage, so look for bursts of color on canvas and fabric alike, and a hand-painted couch and giant kimono hanging from the ceiling.
" (That is, allowing a collection to lie stagnant, without growing meaningfully and substantively.) In a separate, recent phone call from London, curator Jackson observed, "All kimono are made up of essentially the same basic pattern of rectangular pieces of fabric.
For the mini photo shoot, Williams wore a long black dress and blue silk kimono-style robe decorated with a multicolored flower print — the same one she sported while watching sister Venus Williams compete at the French Open earlier this month.
Although I would later discover that it is is not indigenous to the Power Grill, I like to think that in its innovative blending of the Danish and the Chinese, the Kimono Pølse could only have been invented on Amager.
Jackson, the keeper (or chief curator) of the Asian department at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, also serves as the curator of the Khalili Collection of Kimono, whose holdings reflect a 300-year span of Japanese textile-art history.
When I started collecting some 21926 years ago, there were certain fields in which people were not actively collecting, and even as I acquired objects in different fields, I noticed that there were certain voids, Japanese kimono being one of them.
But she didn't stop there: The dress was held together by an off-the-shoulder silk duchesse kimono top, and the most exciting part of the look was the leather Obi belt which featured a mask of the face of Kawakubo.
In between studying for the baby bar exam, raising her four children, growing her cosmetics business and filming Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kardashian West, 38, has been secretly working on another project — her own shapewear and lingerie brand, Kimono.
You've seen them on celebrities and all over Instagram — sheer kimono-inspired cardigans and dusters are everywhere right now and if you want to get in on the summer trend, Amazon has plenty of affordable styles to add to your closet.
For a recreational folder, the purpose is to finish with a given shape, such as a tato, the traditional paper purse that accessorises a kimono; for many applications, it is the unfolded version of an object that is the useful one.
Sharp, tailored suits, cigarette holders, heels... Just think of Kill Bill's O-Ren Ishii, who manages to keep her white kimono pristine even after a sword fight; or her righthand woman Sofie Fatale, wrapped in a severe black shift dress.
"I will do everything in my power and try not to bring shame to the name yokozuna," said Kisenosato, wearing a formal kimono and bowing deeply during a ceremony where he accepted the promotion from ozeki, sumo's second-highest rank.
While Theranos isn't exactly opening up the kimono and much of the inner workings will likely stay behind the frosted glass walls of the company, it's the first step for a company when it desperately needs the credibility to continue.
But most importantly, Kim has some gifts planned just for herself, namely a $345 Fleur du Mal Kimono Robe, $90 Christian Louboutin Matte Lipstick in Just Nothing, a $210 Tomoko Spa Massage and a $375 pair of Givenchy pool slides.
FROM PEN: Today's Savannah Guthrie Was Very Superstitious About Her Pregnancy: "I Didn't Want to Jinx It" For the mini photo shoot, Williams wore a long black dress and blue silk kimono-style robe decorated with a multicolored flower print.
The Asian Art Museum's Kimono Refashioned demonstrates the kimono's enduring impact on fashion since the 19th century through luxurious Japanese kimonos, opulent Western gowns, and haute couture from the likes of Junya Watanabe, Issey Miyake, Alexander McQueen, and other renowned designers.
Irene: I just tried to incorporate the basic white T-shirt into what I would normally wear, so I added it with a skirt, and I tucked it in, added a nice little lace kimono-type thing to keep everything flowing.
IKITSUKI ISLAND/NAGASAKI CITY, Japan (Reuters) - His face weathered from years at sea, kimono-clad Japanese fisherman Masaichi Kawasaki kneels before an altar adorned with images of the Virgin Mary, crossing himself as he softly intones chants handed down through centuries.
"For the kimono one, we had the painting in our exhibit, and then at the Met Gala this year, the Olsen twins showed up, and we kid you not, they looked exactly like they did in the painting," Harkins says.
The menu at the standing-room only Isted Grill ranges from chop suey to "sausage in kimono" (a fried sausage wrapped in pancake dough), but it's the roast pork sandwich that brings big lines in the small hours of the morning.
Next, an early 17th-century hanging scroll by Iwasa Matabei (1578-1650) zeros in on this structure, with Genji standing facing the wind, his kimono billowing, behind semitransparent bamboo blinds called misu that are in actual use elsewhere in the show.
There are the flowers; there is logo-print lace; there are suits in a swooping, kimono-like cut drawn from Dior's 1950s women's wear; there is one surprising one in the petal pink of Dior's childhood home in Granville, France.
KIMONO CASUAL At the end of the day, I change out of my Ninja uniform — 90 percent of the time I wear black pants and a black shirt, cotton in summer and wool in winter — and back into my yukata.
The store also stocks an in-house clothing label, Vague & Lame, which offers a range of beachy unisex pieces in soothing sea-tones, as well as thickly striped basque linen kimono jackets designed in collaboration with the Parisian label Anaïs Guery.
Here are the key pieces I'll be bringing: A velvet kimono might not sound like the most versatile piece, but it actually takes the place of a sweater or a jacket if you're traveling somewhere that gets chilly at night.
The kitschy, kimono-clad white actors who have often been cast in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" have stirred outrage in recent years, setting off a debate about whether that 1885 piece can be acceptably presented to a modern audience.
As the video quickly spread online, local news media picked up the story Monday and interviewed the man in the "kimono," who identified himself as a college student from northeastern China visiting Wuhan to view the city's famous cherry blossoms.
Here's what her costumes tell us about her character, broken down into three eras of Cersei: When we meet Cersei in the first few seasons, her style is traditionally feminine: flowing, wavy hair and colorful gowns, often worn kimono-style.
Just over a decade ago, when the V&A presented an exhibition of kimono culled from the Montgomery Collection, the prize of an American based in Switzerland, Khalili responded to the bedazzling display ("about fifty to sixty," he estimated) by purchasing the lot.
Kimono: The Art and Evolution of Japanese Fashion, edited by Anna Jackson, with essays by Nagasaki Iwao, Timon Screech, Christine M. E. Guth and Kendall H. Brown, has been published in the U.S. by Thames & Hudson in collaboration with the Khalili Collections.   
The princess wore a many-layered court kimono and molded hairdo typical of the imperial aristocracy, while the groom wore a black tuxedo with grey trousers for the ceremony at the shrine dedicated to the spirit of her great-grandfather, Emperor Meiji.
According to the press release, the background image shows a detail of a Japanese Meisen kimono and the vase is from the late 1960s by New Mexico-based artist Lucy M. Lewis, a mother of nine whose practice recreated ancient patterns on ceramics.
They are costly vintage Junya Watanabe and he has paired them with a tailored kimono-style jacket from a design collaboration recently undertaken with Levi's Made & Crafted label, a Magasin T-shirt, a pair of suede Clarks Wallabees and a generic knit cap.
With promotional clips offering quick glimpses of Maeve (Thandie Newton) wearing a kimono, it seemed all but certain that Westworld wouldn't just be bringing audiences to this new destination, but that Shogun World might actually play a significant role in the new season.
Murgatroyd, 30, added a subtle but sexy style factor by accessorizing her simple garment with a sheer lace kimono Misha Collection cardigan along with a black choker and a pair of color coordinated Giuseppe Zanotti stilettos that were accented with metallic hoop detailing.
"Every night I put on a kimono to jump out of a fortune cookie at an Asian-themed hotel surrounded by white geishas serving mai tais...it's like I'm living in a nightmare," she tells Melrose during an all-girls camping trip.
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There's Glenn Howerton's Kimono-wearing douchebag ("Cultural appropriation!" calls one of his cohorts) who seems to expect his flight attendant to magically whip up a healthy, Mediterranean meal on a literal airplane because he decided in that moment it's what he wants.
After leaving Neutrogena, Mr. Cotsen focused on collecting contemporary textile fragments — a piece of a tunic or a kimono, for instance — as well as Japanese ceramics and turned wood, whose grain and texture offered him the sort of tactile experience that he coveted.
Just as when Chitose Abe started combining military nylon and kimono embroidery, lacy macramé and lots of gaping zippers, snowboarding and cotton shirting and life-preserver puffas in her Sacai collection, even Toto would know we're not in the Grand Palais anymore.
In his definitive text on the subject, The Beauty of Kinbaku, author and teacher Master "K" explains that shibari, the general term for rope tying, has had myriad practical and decorative functions throughout Japan's history, in Shinto spiritual offerings, Sumo wrestling, and traditional kimono.
But turning towards populated parts of Japan for style inspiration didn't result in a line of been-there-done-that kimonos (you will, however, find subtle kimono sleeves and wrap details here and there) nor the intense streetwear trends coming from Japan's urban districts.
The most well-known of the three is 1959's The Crimson Kimono, directed by Samuel Fuller, in which Shigeta plays a suit-wearing, cigarette-smoking hard-boiled LAPD detective who fights his own partner for the affections of an intelligent young blonde — and wins.
I pulled out a gorgeous sea green dress with kimono sleeves I never wear just to test her skills and a vintage (possibly 60s) white lace dress that I haven't worn since a friend pointed out it made me look like I was getting married.
Of course, Mary-Kate and Ashley went for vintage, as is their wont, with Mary-Kate donning a yellow, flower-printed cocktail dress made out of a thick, padded fabric with wide, structured kimono sleeves that she paired with bright green, point-toe mules.
Filing a trademark is a source identifier that will allow me to use the word for my shapewear and intimates line but does not preclude or restrict anyone, in this instance, from making kimonos or using the word kimono in reference to the traditional garment.
On a recent evening, the chef Mako Okano stood behind the counter at Shabu Shabu Macoron, on the Lower East Side, looking a little like Rosie the Riveter: bandanna knotted around her head, the sleeves of her denim kimono rolled up to her elbows.
The Native Hotel is not on the beach itself, and the cinder block bungalows seemed a bit brutally modernist, but inside I liked the feeling of having my own cabin with its crisp white linens, minibar in the vintage ice chests and kimono-style robes.
The night before, my upstairs neighbor had apparently gone down to my apartment to tell my lodgers that smoking isn't allowed, only to be greeted by a smiling Kitti in a tiny, satin-kimono and 6-inch heels, who thought he was a client.
From a back door off the studio, stairs lead to a shed that houses his fermentation vats and a small yard, given over in its entirety to sheaths of dyed kimono fabric, stretched from one end to the other — like long, slender hammocks — to dry.
" Mr. Van der Straeten is also showing a pair of matching "Kimono" cabinets (€460,000 for the pair), in which he has re-employed original 18th-century lacquered panels by inserting them into a modern piece of furniture, an extension "of the European love for chinoiseries.
More than a thousand years after the Silk Road ushered in the wonders of China, Kyoto remains Japan's cultural center; its artisans carry on traditional crafts like kimono design and woodblock printing, and its chefs make food a ceremonial art form all its own.
She wore a quietly elegant beige-green kimono, her hair boyishly cut above her ears, a far cry from the image of a Western-style beauty that made her one of the heroines of the golden age of Japanese film in the early 1960s.
He dreamed of living alone — well, alone with his beard — in a large, barren loft apartment — lots of blond wood — wearing a kimono, with a futon on the floor, and a samovar of tea constantly bubbling in the background, doing Shakespeare in the street for the homeless.
While the pop star's foundational look was a simple white tee and ripped jeans, on top of that she wore a very stately floral-printed silk kimono from Gucci's Spring Summer 2017 collection which features black Persian lamb and purple mink fur, embroidered toggles, and patch details.
The footage, shared on Twitter with the viral hashtag #僧衣でできるもん, meaning "I can do this in monks' robes," started to appear after a monk in Japan's Fukui prefecture was stopped last year and fined ¥6,000 ($55) for wearing a kimono.
Moicano is constantly looking for anyone willing to throw on a kimono and train with him, whether it's a fellow teammate at the main FT academy where he used to have his own key or friend from one of the other social projects in the favela.
Dressed in a mud-dyed silk kimono with a folding fan tucked into his obi and his unruly white shoulder-length hair combed back behind his ears, Mr. Isozaki reflected on a six-decade long career blending architecture with visual art, poetry, philosophy, theater, writing and design.
Last year, on an 18-day Japan trip, his crew of 13 — ranging from 8 months to nearly 80 years old — piled into two connecting machiya houses, essentially urban villas, in Kyoto, where the children tried everything from samurai knife-making and kimono-tying to taiko drumming.
Burroughs's first story, "Twilight's Last Gleamings" (1938), a diabolically hilarious fantasia set aboard the sinking Titanic in which the ship's captain snatches at gunpoint a stout female passenger's wig and kimono so he can leap into the lifeboat reserved for women and children, is here in toto.
"Even CEO Reed Hastings is open kimono that the global migration to IPTV content will attract new entrants and accelerating commitments from those currently engaged, which include deep pocketed tech companies like Amazon and companies with significant programming access like Hulu and European public broadcasters," he wrote.
" Of Shoei, then the only Japanese restaurant in Greenwich Village, he wrote, "One of the nicest assets is a pretty young Japanese woman in kimono and obi who looks and talks like one of those young women in those television commercials for flights to the Orient.
You do not know true sadness until you've gone home with a man because "it might be a good idea," realized they wear a kimono around the house, woken up to their snoring dad-bod, and cried silently while trying to slip out from under their arm.
Sent to Japan on assignment by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Calvino wrote nine travel pieces, describing everything from ancient imperial villas and Zen temples to Tokyo's subculture of pinball arcades (Pachinko), electrical trains, Kimono-clad women, and the "savage ferocity" of Japanese erotic prints.
The reality star and fashion mogul — who has a new line of shapewear, though the company is in need of a new name after widespread backlash and accusations of cultural appropriation for the original name, Kimono — said that she prefers to be "all smoothed" rather than showing her cellulite.
Edward, for his part, was loyal to his American charmers as long as they catered to his exacting standards of social amusement — and sometimes (like Jennie Jerome, widow of Randolph Churchill) agreed to serve him Japanese tea, which came with a beguiling flash of what was under the kimono.
In a series of oddly professional Instagram videos suggesting a perhaps dangerous concentration of staff members in her home, she can be seen undergoing a bizarre healing procedure at her personal health clinic and bending over a typewriter in a kimono, pontificating about the social effects of the virus.
In a series of oddly professional Instagram videos suggesting a perhaps dangerous concentration of staff members in her home, she can be seen undergoing a bizarre healing procedure at her personal health clinic and bending over a typewriter in a kimono, pontificating about the social effects of the virus.
Ms. Middleton, for example, wore an emerald green silk cocktail dress with an oversized embroidered flower on the skirt, which retails for around $1,500, to a glamorous wedding in Ireland in July; the magenta kimono-style jacket that Mr. Combs wore on a red carpet last year costs $2,572.
Included in the collection of 18 separates — all made of cashmere and silk yarn spun at an Italian mill — are classic button-downs with notched collars and delicate contrast piping, which can be paired with matching pants or shorts, along with short nightgowns and a kimono-style robe.
"Thinking of the peaceful times that have extended for many years after the war, reflecting on our past and with a feeling of deep remorse, I earnestly hope that the ravages of war will never be repeated," said Akihito, who was accompanied by a kimono-clad Empress Michiko.
The pieces evidence a merger of his interests in Japanese Kimono fabric designs and American folk art traditions, a blend that places him in company with artists such as Chuck Close, who deploy systems of rules and patterns that are bent to the spontaneity of the hand's dialogue with the eye.
The French film director, whose film Faces Places is nominated for Best Documentary Feature, is causing a frenzy on Twitter thanks to her stylish rose-printed Oscars look, featuring a Gucci silk cardigan, pants and kimono combo, teamed with John Lennon-esque round sunglasses and a two-tone hair color.
WATCH THIS: Scott Disick Wants to 'Try and Make Things Work Again' With Kourtney Kardashian: Source   Inside, three bedrooms with walk-in closets and private bathrooms (with luxurious kimono robes and copper-leafed tubs), a laundry room, full kitchen, cocktail bar and mini bar make up the 3,000-square-foot digs.
As a poet he's another poet; as a rock star he's a fabulous character, a mystical Montrealer whose outfit comes complete with jacket and cigarette, who regularly convened with spiritual forces beyond our ken and fell into bed with women as slyly and effortlessly as one slips out of a kimono.
Without invitation or permission, she installed silver, highly reflective plastic spheres outside the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and stood among them throughout the exhibition's opening period, barefoot and dressed in a gold kimono, while offering individual spheres for sale to viewers at the price of 1200 lira (about $2).
Touring the rest of Hill House I gawked at the couple's obsessive ability to control every square inch of space and experience, my eyes darting from purple enamel glass chandeliers to colorful window seats to a "kimono desk," its wings outstretched like a Japanese garment, inset with mother-of-pearl.
His debut collection, for the women's fall 2019 season, blended medieval motifs (an obsession of Jeanne Lanvin's) and manga: There were regal sheep-fur duster coats trimmed in abstracted anime graphics, trumpet-sleeved dresses printed with characters from Eiichi Yamamoto's erotic cartoons and kimono-like silks depicting dragon-slaying saints.
In Van der Straeten's gallery, beneath his offices, there are pieces from his new collection, "Émergence," each colored by that long-ago trip: The majestic Kimono armoire closes like a traditional robe; the jaunty Origami console, with a turquoise base, looks as if it's made of pieces of sculpted paper.
Steven Rattner After much uncertainty about what President Trump would propose as a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, he opened his kimono before Congress on Tuesday and came down firmly on the side of a structure that would leave millions of Americans with weaker health insurance or none at all.
The maiko, or apprentice geisha, in her kimono, its nape dipped in the back just low enough to allow a glimpse of her vulnerable, delicate upper vertebrae: The silk, as befits a young woman, is, in springtime, a spun-sugar pink, its pattern a Milky Way scatter of cherry blossoms.
Hussein Chalayan, who celebrates his 25th anniversary in the fashion business this year, embraced his own next stage with tailoring — experimental origami-style folds and wide-cut padded jackets with kimono sleeves — as well as tongue-in-cheek, class-infused active wear from the worlds of equestrianism and après-ski.
For example, the lengths of kimono sleeves have varied, as has the width of the arm openings inside the draped pieces of fabric shaping those sleeves, but such changes have been relatively subtle compared to the differences between, say, 21989th-century hunting skirts and hot pants, or Victorian corsets and the Wonderbra.
The 36-year-old shared a collage of photos on Instagram of her outfit on board what we're assuming is a private plane with Jay Z. She wore a V-neck kimono-style tracksuit top with hot pink racing stripes along the sleeves, paired with a matching maroon pant with coordinating striped accents.
That she did so with a collection that was almost entirely in black was both a declaration of self — "black is a very personal color to me," she said backstage before the show, wearing a black kimono, a black shirt and pants highlighting the details in pieces straight from her Dior vernacular.
From the base of a simple nude slip dress with a scrim of sheer organza dripping discreet slithers of diamanté on top, Mr. Van Noten built and built, adding kimono jackets in assorted silks, scarves in bright floral prints that flowed out from the side of a skirt or beneath a jacket.
Standout styles include a checked lavender sleeveless A-line dress, with a cascade of three-dimensional blackberries and strawberries dangling like fringe from a matching bag; a gingham gown with cherries spilling down the front and a three bows on the back; and a royal blue kimono jacket decorated with hand-painted lemons.
"So we are very open kimono with everything to be very transparent with what we're trying to do and to make sure that they get the information they need, because we need to make sure our business is clean and we're doing things the right way," Bunch said, according to Defense News.
"Filing a trademark is a source identifier that will allow me to use the word for my shapewear and intimates line but does not preclude or restrict anyone, in this instance, from making kimonos or using the word kimono in reference to the traditional garment," Ms. Kardashian West said in the statement.
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For the pièce de résistance, the star combined two of her favorite jackets — dusters and bombers — into one kimono with sporty trim that may not have gone with anything she was wearing or been necessary in the 90° heat, but dammit, she's not going to stray from her "Whatever, I wear waht I want" outfit philosophy.
Meanwhile, lingering resentments fuel local hostility toward Japanese women who become romantically involved with the American occupiers; one such woman, Mariko (Shirley Yamaguchi), proves crucial to the crisscrossing plotlines, and the gangsters' reference to her not by name but as "the kimono" shows the contempt in which such women were held by the occupiers as well.
Then there are fads as recent as the turn-of-the-century "Miss High-Collar" look, when schoolgirls combined men's hakama, a kind of kimono-pants hybrid, with European boots — not to mention the heavily made-up male visual-kei rock n' rollers of the '90s, with their Labrynth-era David Bowie hair and flamboyant costumes.
While the Americans were romping over the Japanese in a game in Omiya, Berg went off to Tokyo on an audacious mission of his own: with a Bell and Howell camera he had hidden under his kimono, Dawidoff wrote, Berg shot film of the city's shipyards, military installations and industrial complexes from the roof of a seven-story hospital.
" Eventually, the pair arrived at a one-size-fits-all, gender-neutral quilted housecoat, which has the pared-back silhouette of a kimono but the cozy feel of a comforter, crafted from French terry cloth with a "super soft T-shirt fabric on the inside," McGillivray says, "so it'll feel like an old favorite from day one.
In partnership with students from Parsons School of Design, Care and Wear, a "healthwear company" (it specializes in medical wearables), has created a new kimono-inspired hospital gown that opens in the front, has a shielding pleat in the back, replaces five types of gowns with one, and allows for partial exposure through the use of ties and snaps.
Jakuchu's fine depictions of peacocks, phoenixes, flowers and roosters make for a pleasant contrast with the more provocative images of geisha by Kitagawa Utamaro and Katsushika Hokusai, including the latter's striking "A Summer Morning," showing a woman, possibly a courtesan, admiring her image in a hand-held mirror; in the background, a man's kimono is visible.
The man, who declined to be named, told Shangyou News that he was a fan of traditional Chinese culture and was actually wearing "tangzhuang" -- a type of garment that originated during the 7th Century Tang dynasty in ancient China and is believed by many to have provided the inspiration for the kimono, the full-length Japanese robe.
Visitors can compare it with a 88883 British evening dress of cut velvet, twill and organdy; a 1995 Yohji Yamamoto dress with a black bodice and red and gold brocade skirt; a 1991 strapless black silk taffeta Commes des Garçons Noir dress with a hand-painted skirt; and kimono-influenced designs from Alexander McQueen and Tom Ford.
The black gestural forms in the paintings done in the late '50s and early '60s seem to have their roots in the kimono as well as the black line she learned in her study of calligraphy; the paint is applied thickly and forcefully, which may have been inspired by painters associated with the Gutai group, which formed in Osaka in 1954.
The new name comes more than two months after the initial announcement of the collection and over a month after Kardashian West vowed to change it following accusations of cultural appropriationThe kimono, a traditional Japanese garment, dates back to the early 1600s and played an important role in Japan during the Edo period, from 1615 to 1868, London's Victoria & Albert Museum points out.
Whomever I tapped would turn to me with a bewildered look, and take a few quick little steps to the left or the right so that I could pass, but immediately another woman in a kimono would flow in to fill the void, either out of an innate instinct to correct the group's balance or just to get closer to the tour guide.
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Mr. Crutchley's offerings included a collaboration with the French artist Lucien Murat, who painted his vision of a grotesque, bestial world on traditional tapestries that were finished into open-collar shirts and shorts for men and dresses for women; a partnership with a historic Yorkshire mill to create woven suiting, and prints made by the oldest kimono printer in Kyoto, Japan.
Kimono, a riff on Ms. Kardashian West's name that is in line with her other brands (Kimoji and KKW Beauty) and what she said in a statement to The New York Times was meant to be "a nod to the beauty and detail that goes into a garment," quickly became the subject of online charges of ignorant and offensive misuse.
The latter are the most ambitious in their hybridity of masculine formalism and feminine connotation and contingency — works such as "Anatomy of a Kimono" (1976), a massive multipaneled piece in the collection of Bruno Bischofberger, and "Wonderland" (1983), a large work in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and one of the finest and most poignant of Schapiro's homages to domesticity and traditional needlework crafts.
Framing it as proof of the left's reactionary and prohibitive attitude toward cultural appropriation, he writes: One particularly amusing example of a "cultural appropriation" panic occurred in July 2015, when Boston's Museum of Fine Arts announced "Kimono Wednesdays," in which visitors were encouraged to pose in Kimonos next to Claude Monet's painting 1876 "La Japonaise," which depicts the artist's wife in a similar outfit.
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The gallery spaces display some of the work that has been created here: ceramic musical jewelry from Christie Wright and Arjen Noordeman; a clay kimono from Karen LaMonte, whose glass dresses are in several museum collections around the world; and the most improbable project of all, Filip Jonker's "Dante GT ceramic," a 1985 Pontiac Fiero with a frame that's been covered with a ceramic body.
The characters are perfunctory; their actions are described in galumphing style ("Hector MacQueen leaned forward interestedly"); the ethnic stereotyping is an embarrassment ("A big, swarthy Italian was picking his teeth with gusto"); and the Queen of Crime, as she is worshipfully known, cannot resist slipping into breathless italics at the prospect of something significant ( "Neatly folded on the top of the case was a thin scarlet silk kimono embroidered with dragons" ).
"If you're going to run and try to become the president of the United States, you're going to have to open up your kimono and show everything, your tax returns, your medical records," Chaffetz told CNN's Jim Sciutto on "The Lead" after he criticized Hillary Clinton for allegedly allowing lines to blur between her family's charity, the Clinton Foundation, and the State Department while she was at its helm.
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Kim Kardashian's shapewear line has a new name after facing backlash for originally being called 'Kimono'More than one fan suggested Kim Kardashian call her shapewear line SKIM over a month before the star announced its new nameKim Kardashian's shapewear line now sells waist trainers, but doctors say they're terrible for your healthKim Kardashian says she never meant to 'intentionally disrespect' Japanese culture by naming her shapewear line 'Kimono'
And Mr. Michele delivered with souvenir jackets scrolled with dragons; flower patterned suits and contrast piped rowing blazers; Mary Janes with jeweled buckles; slickers and rain caps straight off a box of Fisherman's Friend lozenges; over-embroidered jeans jackets; Fair Isle sweaters with Donald Duck woven into the pattern; satin kimono lounge jackets; tunics ornamented with military braid; drawstring painter's pants and evening clothes stitched with what looked like trapunto flora.
There are rare moments when we do receive hints of the moods of these occasions: a printed cape of a Mejishi lion character billows in the wind, for instance, as if the individual inside was caught while moving through his joyous dance; kimono-wrapped performers representing the Saotome, or rice-planting women, seem to shuffle quietly through falling snow, dipping their pink floral headpieces to shield their faces.
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Titus' decision to make use of the performance space to stage a show ("Kimono You Didn't") in which he plays a Japanese woman sparks the ire of an internet forum that advocates for the Respectful Asian Portrayals in Entertainment — so that acronym, in case you don't catch it, is R.A.P.E. This reeks of Tina Fey responding to all the years of internet scrutiny to which she's been subjected at the hands of anonymous commenters.
"Read more: Kim Kardashian is changing the name of her 'Kimono' shapewear line after facing intense backlash and accusations of cultural appropriationWhile it's unclear whether Kardashian West or her team saw Rodrigues' or Ferguson's tweets, or took inspiration from them, the reality-TV star often welcomes her fans' ideasWhen announcing the shapewear line's new name on Monday, Kardashian West acknowledged her fans and said she was "so grateful they shared their ideas for a new brand name.

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