Hello! After some time of doing nothing on the blog. I decided to get out of theroutine in #Thefashioncode BLOG, I did interview to Yoshiko Kris-Webb a FashionBlogger who has had contact with the world of fashion since she was born. you will love her style ... exclusive for #Thefashioncode
Full interview...
How did you start to
become interested in fashion?
My parents were my first source of inspiration
about fashion as my father used to take me shopping. I loved helping him buy
clothes at his favorite shops, especially Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and
Armani. He was a good fashion adviser to my mother, too. and we used to go
shopping together as a family. My sister and I accompanied them to my mother’s favorite boutiques together and we would watch help her to choose. She
looked great in Valentino, Christian Dior, Lanvin, Kenzo, etc.
I was a very diligent
student and got into a top university, but I soon began to long for an
experience of the world beyond Japan so I dropped out and moved to New York.
After working as an event promoter for a while I started a business trading
rare sneakers then did some designing for some brands and eventually drifted
further and further into the world of fashion.
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How started Yoshiko
Kris-Webb Blog?
After almost five years
in the US I moved back to Japan and began working as a buyer for an avant garde
multi-label “select shop” in Kyoto. After meeting my husband, who was also a
buyer at the time, at a fashion show in London in 2003 I moved to Tokyo and
worked in fashion PR for a while before becoming a full-time mother.
My older daughter,
Ninon, is 9 and her younger sister, Beni, is 8. When I was 28 I was scouted by
the editor-in-chief of a lifestyle/fashion magazine called VERY. I started
modeling soon after that and after a couple of years they gave me an exclusive
contract. The magazine work is always great fun, but these days I also enjoy
doing TV and radio shows, commercials, collaborations and charity projects.
The blog started in
2012. Its name, TOKYO DAME, is in homage to TOKYO DANDY, who I admire a lot and
are often cited as the best fashion bloggers in Japan.
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What’s your most memorable fashion moment?
A fashion show in London
in September 2003. It was Ann-Sophie Back. A clever young man came and sat next
to me. We had a chat and then, sometime later, we got married and made babies.
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You have your own style,
or who's inspires u?
Putting an outfit
together - Japanese people use the English word “coordinate” - it’s like mathematics in a certain way. I like to
calculate combinations precisely. I have and a set of rules that I always
adhere too (except when I feel like breaking the rules …). There are plenty of
women I admire, but none specifically whose style inspires me in a strong way.
Even if I register someone else’s outfit I process that through my own
framework, my own distinctive aesthetic sensibility, so I feel that my
inspiration comes from within myself.
• What are your rules of
style?
They are top secret!
• Who are your favorite
designers?
Too many to mention
• What are your “musts”?
With clothes, nothing’s an absolute imperative, but heels do so much for one’s posture.
• Who do you turn to for
high-fashion items?
My stylists
• And who do you look to
for your basics?
ditto
• How would you describe
yourself in five words…
Yoshiko Kris Webb Mother
Writer
• Which projects come to
Yoshiko Kris-Webb?
Those from people who wish
to communicate with Japanese women who have good taste
:-)
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