Sheila Cliffe, 60, teaches lessons on kimono culture at a university ... The piece of traditional Japanese clothing enthralled her with its brilliant red color and its silky, supple sheen.

Madonna rocked Jean Paul Gaultier’s red kimonos for her music video and the Grammys. For Japanese designers, many of whom studied in Paris and London in the ’90s onwards, embracing the kimono ...

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 ...