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HONOLULU (AP) - Hisako Barrow’s creations incorporating upcycled Japanese fabrics of all kinds attract all kinds of customers, from women of Japanese heritage, as one might expect, to all sorts of ...

If there is one overlooked corner of fashion history, it has to be Japanese textiles. For hundreds of years, Japanese craftspeople have made high-end fabrics from plant fibers and silk. Today, some of ...

A project to create modern clothing using traditional Japanese textiles is making a splash. Mizen, led by Shunsuke Teranishi, features the fabric of 12 producers across the country. Teranishi, 43, who ...

Considering Alex Mill is a clothing brand that champions subtlety and curation, Alex Drexler’s office is what you might expect of the 37-year-old founder. Shirts made of Japanese fabric and t-shirts ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Mitsubishi Rayon, Kuraray and other leading fabric makers are preparing to enhance sales of their quality materials to the Middle Eastern market, to be used for traditional garments.

Arakawa Ward’s Nippori district seldom comes to mind when considering Tokyo’s most popular tourist destinations. Nevertheless, the neighbourhood’s thriving fabric trade has helped propel a boom in ...