Kimono: The Importance of Inheritance | Yasuko Omari | TEDxBorrowdaleWomen

Being an executive of a kimono dressing academy with experience of 40 years of dressing kimono, Yasuko Omori has seen constant transformation of kimonos and how they are worn. In this speech, she and her mother, who has inherited kimono culture to her, exhibit kimono’s historical beauty as well as functionality and show its future direction. She believes that anyone who is interested in kimono culture, regardless of their ethnicity, can inherit it can never be considered “cultural appropriation”. Yasuko Omori runs a kimono dressing school and has 40 years of experience as a kimono stylist. After graduating from university and failing to find a job, she was invited to help her mother run a kimono dressing school, which she continues to do to this day. Before COVID-19 pandemic, she had been dressing brides with bridal kimono and young ladies with furisode (long-sleeved kimono), and teaching dressing kimono to more than 1,000 people, including Miss Kimono Queen, Miss Tokyo, and people in wheelchairs. While the pandemic, she started to develop a "Kimono that can be worn properly in a short time (3 minutes) without learning how to wear it,” and completed it as “Magic kimono.” This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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