Junko Koshino

I found this vintage Japanese purse for the store





It is vintage 1980's Junko Koshino, a Japanese fashion designer known for mixing punky and raw with Japanese traditional looking garments... she is one of two sister designers, well known in Japan.
Koshino started designing based on the Kimono silloette, blending new and old Japanese looks. She has also shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, and has designed for operas, and the theatre. Her work features geometric shapes and contrasting color, as found in the workings of this purse!
for more of her designs for the runway, see Junko Koshino on Foocheung's Flicker

Junko! (she also has the best name ever, by the way.
click on this picture, to the right, for an article about her>>>












on a side note, I wonder if Alexander McQueen might have been influenced by Koshino's penchant for
futuristic kimonos, as seen in the Homogenic
album cover that he designed for Bjork...