Akiko fukai biography sample

Akiko Fukai ((1943-09-10)September 10, 1943) is a Japanese curator of fashion and textile arts.

She received a bachelor's and a master's degree in fashion history from National University of Ochanomizu and studied at Paris-Sorbonne University.^[1][2]

Currently, Fukai is the Director and Chief Curator of the Kyoto Costume Institute.^[1] Her catalogue of the collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute has been published in Japanese, English, French, and German by popular German arts books publisher Taschen.

Fukai has stated in interviews that the future of Japanese fashion is "basic clothing at reasonable prices."^[3]

Her scholarship emphasizes the relationship between tradition and innovation in Japanese fashion throughout history, with a particular focus on designs produced in Japan since the 1980s, the subject of her 2010 traveling exhibition Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion.^[4][2] The exhibi