Hanae Mori

Madame Hanae Mori is Japan’s most internationally renowned female fashion designer. She was the first Japanese woman to show her clothing collections on the runways of Paris and New York. She is the only Japanese woman to be admitted to France’s haute couture club. In a long and distinguished career, Hanae Mori has been awarded the Legion of Honor medal by the President of France and the Order of Culture medal by the Emperor of Japan. When Hanae Mori opened her one-woman clothing boutique in Tokyo in the 1950’s, with her own name on the door, she was the first Japanese woman ever to do so. Sal