The aesthetics of wrinkles, earth tones, layered fashions.
One after another, Japanese fashion magazines would attach names to my style. Business at Y's, my ready-to-wear clothing maker, was expanding at a breakneck pace. From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, the company's annual sales reached between 3 billion to 5 billion yen, and the total number of employees, including clerks working at department stores, topped 100.












