Kimono: Art, Craft, Storytelling with Keita Motoji and Mark McNulty of Ginza Motoji, Part I
Dressed: The History of Fashion
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🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today, we are joined by Keita Motoji and Mark McNulty of Ginza Motoji, Japan's premiere speciality kimono purveyor dedicated to preserving and celebrating the art--and artisans--of kimono. In Part I of this episode, they take us behind the seams of the kimono process to meet the makers responsible for its creation.
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| 0:00.0 | Dress the history of fashion is a production of dressed media. |
| 0:03.2 | With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. |
| 0:12.0 | Every day we all get dressed. |
| 0:14.5 | Welcome to Dress The History of Fashion, a podcast where we explore the who what |
| 0:18.8 | when of why we wear. We are fashion historians and your host April Callahan and Cassidy Zachary. |
| 0:26.0 | Dress listeners this week we are so excited to bring you not one but two episodes on a subject that you have requested many, many times, and that is the art, |
| 0:35.8 | craft, and storytelling aspects of the Japanese kimono. |
| 0:39.9 | And something that we have, of course, actually covered on the show in the past. |
| 0:44.0 | It's been a while but in the summer 2020 we did a two-part episode with Anna Jackson, |
| 0:48.5 | the curator behind the Landmark Vene exhibition Camono Kyoto to Catwalk. The first major exhibition, Camono, Kyoto to Cat Walk, |
| 0:52.7 | the first major exhibition on Camono in the UK. |
| 0:56.0 | Fast forward four years, and today |
| 0:58.1 | we are bringing you an interview |
| 0:59.5 | with two people intimately connected |
| 1:01.2 | to the living practice and craft of Camono in Japan today. |
| 1:04.7 | Keita Motoshi is the second generation owner and director of Ginza Motoshi, |
| 1:10.8 | Japan's Premier Specialty Kimono company founded by his father |
| 1:15.0 | in Tokyo's Genza District in 1979. |
| 1:18.0 | After studying at London College of Fashion |
| 1:20.0 | and gaining international experience in the UK and Paris, |
| 1:24.4 | Cato returned to Japan to lead the company which is dedicated to preserving age-old |
| 1:29.1 | techniques while integrating Kimono into contemporary wardrobes. And Mark McNulty is an Irish transplant |
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