(Greg Cook/WBUR) “For a Japanese person, kimono is just clothing. There’s nothing sacred about it,” said audience member Timothy Nagaoka, who had protested the Decolonize Our Museum protests ...

Kim Kardashian is defending Kimono Solutionwear, saying she has no plans to produce actual Japanese kimono as part of the line — and no plans to change the name, despite backlash. Kardashian ...

As the smiling couple entered the shrine, the crowd shouted their congratulations with the Japanese ... uchiki kimono embroidered with pink flowers and green leaves and a deep purple hakama ...

From a first visit to the shrine to coming of age and marriage ceremonies, the kimono plays an integral role in Japanese society. It is worn at key moments in a person’s life as well as being ...

The internet is going wild for a video of a young Japanese woman snowboarding in a red kimono. A 20-second clip she posted on January 9 has already been viewed over 5 million times. Sumire Morino ...

The kimono is the most famous garment worn in Japan. Kimono literally means “thing to wear” – it is made up of the Japanese words ki, meaning “to wear”, and mono, meaning “thing”.

Photos for Valentino showing Japanese model Koki walking in high heels on a traditional obi kimono belt, and wearing shoes inside, have whipped up a storm of social media criticism amid ...

As far back as 1966, All Japan Kimono Promoting Association designated 15 November as Kimono Day, a day when Japanese families with a 5-year-old boy or a girl aged 3 or 7 celebrate the Shichigosan ...