Kimono sashes from the Palestinian Embroidery Obi Project combine Japanese materials with Middle Eastern designs.

Worn, sold, riffed on and reinvented by people around the world for centuries, the kimono complicates the conversation about what we’re allowed to adopt from other cultures and who is allowed to ...

The kimono, a garment that dates back to the 5th century A.D. and worn by westerners for at least 150 years, inhabits the slippery gray area between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation.

Asharq Al Awsat The Royal Institute of Traditional Arts (Wrth) participated in the Saudi Cultural Week at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, from July 12 to 15. The event aimed to enhance the international ...

In Michiko Tsui’s childhood home there was a room dedicated purely to embroidery. It was there that her mother, Fumiko Saito ...

The innovative endeavor with the textile ink jet printer “FOREARTH” by KYOCERA Document Solutions is gathering attention as ...

Kimono clad women, seemingly ever ready to please, became an essential feature for companies seeking to regain trust. An American PR company suggested that Japan Airlines have kimono clad air ...

The kimono, it’s stripped of its cultural context. That’s what I’m protesting against.” “The conversations today are meant to sketch a path forward,” Teitelbaum said.

An unlined summer kimono, one of the stars of the show “Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection,” dates back to the early Showa Era (1926-1989).

Tokyo Kimono Shoes and Kimono Reborn Tokyo is transforming unwanted kimonos into everyday apparel, in a bid to reduce textile waste and preserve traditional manufacturing industries like shoemaking.

So this is, perhaps, an ideal time to consider the kimono. The T-shaped Japanese robe, which has inspired countless Western garments, complicates the conversation about what we’re allowed to ...