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Hanae Mori

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Hanae Mori

Hanae Mori

Hanae Mori’s fashion house operated from 1951 to its closure (date unspecified), grew to $500 million by the 1990s, and achieved rare institutional recognition: official haute couture accreditation in Paris, runway presence in New York and Paris, and commissions for national representation including JAL, the Olympics, and the Japanese Crown. Her work was functional, ceremonial, and geopolitically legible — not merely aesthetic.