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Kyoto,The Hint of Eternity

      Personally,national costume is a very interesting category to learn. And the “National” word itself has a strong geographical meaning inside, therefore the costume is the most obvious, regional cultural symbols to present the nations (the other is the ‘language’), it is a…

Rainy London-#2

 It had been raining nonstop during the period I was in London. My dear friend Momo took this series of beautiful pictures in East London before I left there. I had so much fun with many friends together last month in London, no matter how…

Oriental Romanticism.

    Traditional oriental style is still one of the most inspired styles for fashion industry, however, most of designs only shows apparent elements from these recent 300 years such as Qing cheongsam or Edo Kimono style. But actually the most poetic and romantic eras in…

Hokusai’s "The Great Wave".

As I said , “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” is one of my favorite art works from Hokusai.  Of course it is cool to wear the great wave outfit during summer as well. Dress by COS Kimono by WingFree Illustration by Nancy.Z Photography by Dean.B

Snow Crane-2

   As I mentioned the last time, crane means a kind of eternal life in ancient cultures of East Asia. As a kind of oriental mystical fairy bird which has thousands of years life, ancient people usually believe that the fairy will ride them fly…

The east is Red.

   Red in the eastern culture has many different kinds of meanings. As you feel, it could be happiness, love, anger, or evil. In the horror stories, many demons in wear red to attract humans; in the sword movies, many classic roles in red to…

Happy Dragon year.

   Usually every Chinese new year people love to decorate a lot of red color things (flowers, paintings, words, etc), wearing red outfit, red bags, giving benefit red bags to kids… Red is the luckiest and most alive color in Chinese culture. So I think I…