Hanae Mori

At a glance

Born 1926-01-08; died 2022-08-11.

Known as: fashion designer and businessperson. Citizenship: Japan and Empire of Japan.

Listed as: human.

Who they were

Personal life and death In 1946, Mori met Ken Mori (1912–1996), a textile businessman who she later married. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] : 20  Ken died on 16 October 1996 of a heart attack . [ 2 ] : 24  [ 3 ] Mori had two sons with Ken named Akira and Kei. Both children help run Mori's business. [ 3 ] Mori died at her home in Tokyo on 11 August 2022, at the age of 96. No cause of death has been revealed. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]

Hanae Mori was a Japanese fashion designer. She was one of only two Japanese women to have presented her collections on the runways of Paris and New York, and the first Asian woman to be admitted as an official haute couture design house by the Fédération française de la couture in France. Her fashion house, opened in Japan in 1951, grew to become a $500 million international business by the 1990s.

Early life

Educated at: Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Tokyo Metropolitan Sakuramachi High School, and Sugino Gakuen.

Path and career

Awards / honours: Asahi Prize, Medal with Purple Ribbon, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and Person of Cultural Merit.

Career Mori was born on 8 January 1926 [ 1 ] in Muikaichi, Shimane . [ 2 ] After graduating from Tokyo Women's Christian University , she married and attended dress-making school. [ 2 ] She opened her first atelier, Hiyoshiya, in 1951, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and over the next several years designed costumes for hundreds of movies. [ 5 ] By 1960, Mori was a mother of two, and she was considering quitting her career in fashion. However, a fitting with Coco Chanel ,

Why this date

Hanae Mori appears on our August 11 calendar for 2022 as a death entry.