This is my series devoted to the real life models who became Rootstein mannequins. The mannequins are also dressed in attire that provides a little bit of fashion history.
This is Sayoko Yamauchi who died in 2007 at the age of 57. A fashion article written in 2017 called her the Japanese model who transformed Fashion’s Beauty Norms.
You can read the entire article here, https://www.anothermag.com/…/the-japanese-model-who-transfo…
Here is an excerpt from the article. “Becoming the first Asian model to grace the Parisian runways, Yamaguchi’s Japanese beauty entranced the industry in the West.
The supermodel became a muse for Kansai Yamamoto, as well as fellow Japanese designers Kenzo Takada and Issey Miyake, and helped to embody a new wave of European appreciation for the Japanese aesthetic.
But it was not only Europe’s landscape that her image revolutionized so rapidly – Asia’s beauty standards were transformed too.
In the 60s, almost 50% of models used in Japanese advertising were non-Asian, and Shiseido, the country’s largest beauty conglomerate, used only half-Japanese models right up until their signing of Yamaguchi in 1973.
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