This summer, New Look sold one kimono every five seconds. The high street retailer has credited ... line robes - have been re-imagined in Western fashion. The decadent mood of the 1920s borrowed ...

Susan "Susu" Smythe and her daughter, Nancy Claire, are the creative forces behind Kiku Refashion, a brand that repurposes vibrant Japanese kimonos into high-end, one-of-a-kind fashion pieces.

The items include a lavishly designed “dochugi” jacket worn by “oiran,” high-ranking “yujo” prostitutes, colorful long-sleeved “furisode” and daily-worn “meisen” kimono with ...

Tomomi Miyajima, founder of Tokiya Japan, showed Good Morning Washington's Megan Clarke how to wear a traditional kimono.