TAIPEI -- For more than a decade, Japanese fashion designer Shunsuke Teranishi worked in Tokyo, Milan and Paris for leading Japanese and European apparel brands. But his career took a dramatic turn in 2016, when he was introduced to the fascinating world of ushikubi tsumugi (cow's neck silk), an exquisite variety of kimono fabric shown at a textile and fashion exhibition in Paris.
That show -- the biennial Premiere Vision exhibition -- was an eye-opener for Teranishi, an architect-turned-designer who was then working for Paris-based Hermes as the only Asian designer in the women's wear team, following earlier jobs at Yohji Yamamoto in Tokyo and with Carol Christian Poell and Agnona in Milan.
